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They know they have to learn English, but they're more excited about the guitar," said Catharine Landrigan, clinical social worker for the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program.

General Assembly has said that unaccompanied refugee minors to be "among the most vulnerable refugees and the most at risk of neglect, violence, forced military recruitment and sexual assault and therefore require special assistance and care.

Another text on assistance to unaccompanied refugee minors urged the UNHCR, all UN agencies and other international and non-governmental organizations concerned to take appropriate steps to mobilize resources commensurate with the needs and interests of these refugee minors and for their reunification with their families.

PELATED ARTICLE: Assembly acts on refugees In adopting on 23 December five resolutions on refugees, the Assembly, among other things: deplored the fact that, in certain situations, refugees and returnees and other persons of concern to UNHCR had been subjected to armed attack, murder, rape and other violations of or threats to their personal security and other fundamental rights, and that incidents of refoulement and denial of access to safety had occurred (49/169); condemned all acts of exploitation of unaccompanied refugee minors, including their use as human shields in armed conflict (49/172); and called upon the UN system and the international community to strengthen the emergency response capacity of the UNHCR on the basis of its experience in Rwanda (49/174).