- 9Special Protection Measures 9.1 Children in emergency situations (articles 23 and 25) 390. Articles 23 and 25 of the ACRWC oblige the State to take all necessary measures to ensure that refugee and internally displaced children receive appropriate protection and humanitarian assistance; to cooperate with international organizations to protect and assist children refugee children to trace their parents or relatives; to ensure that where no parents are found, the child in question receives the same protection as any other child temporarily or permanently deprived of his or her family environment. 391. Measures taken by the State in furtherance of its duties are spelt out in detail in the substance of this report. As a result of these, the State notes:  That all officially internally displaced children have been resettled and reintegrated into society, leading to the dissolution of the National Commission for War-Affected Children (NaCWAC) which is in the process of being replaced with the National Commission for Children (NCC).  That in order to protect refugee children, separated or unaccompanied minors, the State has enacted the Refugees Protection Act, 2007 (Act No. 6), section 9 of which, inter alia, provides special protection to female refugee applicants and separated/unaccompanied minors by granting them the right to a female interpreter and appropriate treatment (in the case of refugee women) as well as the right to an independent and authorized representative to provide for the best interests of separated or unaccompanied refugee children, in addition to other appropriate administrative procedures applicable to them within the country. 9.2 Children in armed conflict (article 22) 392. This matter is dealt with extensively in the preceding substantive parts of the report. Please refer back to sections 2.3 and 6.3, particularly paragraphs 58.1 and 191-192 for further information. 9.3 Children in contact with the law, victims and witnesses (article 17) 393. As previously mentioned in the report, the age of criminal responsibility was, as per the common law, ten years. That is, children under the age of ten were regarded as incapable of committing a crime, but those older than ten were seen as capable of criminal conduct. The Child Rights Act increased the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years. The act, together with the Children and Young Persons Act (Cap 44, 1960) along with an initial Child Justice Strategy developed in 2006 make provision 9. Special Protection Measures  101