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Geneva: Arresting children should be used as a last resort and for the shortest period, a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday. Marta Hurtado told Anadolu Agency that child detentions should also “be considered in light of the best interests of the child.” “These principles are set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as General Comment 24 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child regarding Children’s rights in juvenile justice,” she said. Her comments were in response to...