Chapter Eight Special Protection Measures Articles (23) (25) of the Charter A- Children Refugees, Returnees and IDPs: The legal aspect of Sudan’s policy towards refugees is based on the international and regional instruments regulating refugees’ issues. Child refugees are treated according to the provisions of the UN Covenant of 1951 and its protocol of 1976 and the OAU convention of refugees, 1969. With regards to national legislations there is the Refugee Organization Act, 1974 which provided in Article 7 the commitment of the Sudan to all its obligations contained in the international and regional instruments regulating the affairs of refugees in the country. The same Act included in Article 2 an addition to the definition of refugee not mentioned in the above international and regional instruments of 1951 and 1969 provided for the rights of unaccompanied children to have special treatment and special protection. Cooperation between the Commission of Refugees (COR) and UNHCR through the local UNHCR in Sudan and other international stakeholders in taking measures to provide the necessary protection to refugees including the provision of basic services in refugee camps such as shelter, food and non-food assistance, water, basic education and health services. Urban refugees and their children do not enjoy the services offered to camp refugees. There is a small segment of urban refugees in Khartoum state. Services to this group is provided under the supervision of (COR) and financed by the UNHCR. Child refugees are provided with IDs and other documents according to the provisions of the law. Their treatment in this regard is similar to that of citizens. Adoption of child refugee is dealt with according to national and international legal criteria and according to the beliefs of the refugee under the supervision of UNHCR and (COR). Within the context of sharing responsibilities between the international community and the host country special villages for orphan child refugees were established in the area of Abu Rakham where children were grouped according to nationality and beliefs. These children enjoy the same services offered to the Sudanese children of the host states as the villages do have maternity and pediatric care, registration of newborn, free birth certificate and vaccination, compulsory basic education. The ration of children to women is 4:5. Services Offered to Child Refugee in Camps in the States of Red Sea, Kassala, Gadaref, Sinnar and Gezira in 2008: 1- Education: the number of pupils in basic level schools in the refugee camps was 7,565, of whom 1,556 were Sudanese and 6,007 were refugees. Girls were 3,679 and 50

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