Submission form: Submission #2246

Section I
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Name of entity submitting the pledge: United Nations Task Force on Children Deprived of Liberty
Pledging entity: International Organizations
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Full name: Cecilia Anicama
Position: child rights officer 
Country of implementation: United States of America (USA) (248)
Other country of implementation: Global (23641)
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Email Address: canicama@un.org
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Section II
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Name of the pledge: UN Task Force Joint Pledge to support the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
Type of pledge (please select): Common (several states/actors making identical or complementary pledges)
Is this a mirror pledge (pledge is also relevant to the Global Compact on Refugees) ?: {Empty}

Section II a
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Participating States and Actors:
Name of state/actor:  The UN Task force is integrated by SRSG VAC (chair), SRSG CAC, CRC Committee, UNICEF, WHO, IOM, OHCHR, UNHCR, UNODC
Country (if operating in more than one country please indicate HQ country): global
E-mail address of the contact person: canicama@un.org


Section III
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Nature of the pledge: Policy/legal in scope around a given objective of the GCM; structured

Section IV
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Please select the main three GCM objectives the pledge is/are meant to support: 13. Use migration detention only as a measure of last resort and work towards alternatives

Section V
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Please indicate which GCM Guiding Principle is/are particularly relevant for the pledge:
People-centred (738); International cooperation (739); Rule of law and due process (741); Sustainable development (740); Human rights (259); Gender-responsive (258); Child-sensitive (257); Whole-of-government approach (737); Whole-of-society approach (736)


Section VI
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Please provide a description of the pledge:
The United Nations Task Force on Children Deprived of Liberty  Pledges:

•	To conduct evidence-based advocacy and to mobilize all key stakeholders at all levels to scale up child rights-based protective solutions to end the detention of children in the context of migration. 

•	To support Member States to harmonize their national legal frameworks with international human rights standards to explicitly prohibit detention of children based on their migration status or that of their families.

•	To support data collection and the dissemination of promising practices on child rights-based protective solutions as alternative measures to end the detention of children in the context of migration. 

•	To involve and amplify the voices of migrant children in determining their best interest in all issues concerning children in legislation, policies, practices, including those related to integration, return and family reunification; as well as access to services, to justice and to remedies for violations of their rights.

*The UN Task force is integrated by the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children, the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).


Section VII
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Please indicate the tentative deadline within which this pledge is expected to be realised: 02 May 2026

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