A/HRC/37/34 44 45 12 Key term Definition Unaccompanied children Children who have been separated from both parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, is responsible for their care. Children may become unaccompanied at any point during their migration. 44 Xenophobia Commonly used to describe attitudes, prejudices and behaviour that reject, exclude and often vilify persons based on the fact or the perception that they are outsiders or foreign with respect to a community, society or national identity. 45 There is no universal legal definition of “xenophobia”. Committee on the Rights of the Child, general comment No. 6, para. 7. See ILO, IOM and OHCHR, International Migration, Racism, discrimination and Xenophobia (2001), p. 2.