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Defence for Children International Beijing Rules STATUS OF THE RULES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
The Rules are recommendatory and non-binding per se. Certain of the principles enunciated within the Rules, however, have been encompassed in provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a global treaty which is binding on all States Parties. The Beijing Rules do not prevent the application of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners adopted in 1955. Those rules should be extended to juveniles in detention pending adjudication and in institutions and applied in such a way as to meet the particular needs of juveniles. The commentary specifically states that the Rules should also be interpreted and implemented in the light of other existing and emerging human rights texts, without prejudice to any provision of wider application which may be contained therein.
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