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Technical Note: COVID-19 and children deprived of their liberty
Evidence from previous infectious disease outbreaks shows that child protection risks are likely to emerge from the direct effects of COVID-19, but also from preventative measures trying to control its spread. Moreover, pre-existing child protection risks
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"They Didn't Know if I Was Alive or Dead": Military detention of children for suspected Boko Haram involvement in northeast Nigeria
The Nigerian military has been found to arbitrarily detain thousands of children for suspected involvement with the armed Islamist group Boko Haram. Many children are held without charge for months or years and often with little or no evidence of involvem
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Let’s Work to End Child Immigration Detention
We, the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts, UN agencies and bodies, global, European and national organisations, welcome the European Commission’s initiative to dedicate the 11th European Forum on the Rights of the Child to the topic of ch
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Children and Detention
Detention can be stressful and dangerous. It entails physical, emotional and intellectual deprivation, and even resilient adults find it hard to cope with. For children therefore, detention is likely to have a particularly severe and lasting effect. That
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UNHCR's Position Regarding the Detention of Refugee and Migrant Children in the Migration Context
The purpose of this note is to provide clarification about UNHCR’s position regarding the detention of children, unaccompanied, separated or in families for immigration-related purposes. The scope of this note includes refugee and asylum-seeking children
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Inhuman Sentencing: Life imprisonment of children around the world
The Child Rights International Network (CRIN) has been reporting on the inhuman sentencing of children, including sentences of death, life imprisonment and corporal punishment, since 2010. CRIN is concerned that international condemnation is often limited
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Protecting People Deprived of their Liberty
Guided by the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, in particular humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence, the ICRC has acted to improve the conditions of detention and treatment of people deprived of
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Illegal Detention of Migrant Children in Switzerland: A status report
Published by Terre des hommes, a leading organisation for child relief, this publication explores children in the context of migration. Whether accompanied, separated, or unaccompanied, children should never be remanded in custody – held in detention due
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Refugee Children in Conflict With the Law in Bethlehem
Through interviews, focus groups, a literature review, and questionnaires, this report strives to provide a detailed picture of the status of refugee children in conflict with the law in the Bethlehem Governorate. The research questions driving this study
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Children in Israeli Military Detention: Observations and Recommendations, UNICEF Bulletin No. 2: February 2015
This bulletin presents the latest developments made by the Government of Israel in terms of military legislation for children’s rights while in military detention. To supplement this information, key data on child detention in 2013 and 2014 is presented f
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Solitary Confinement for Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Detention
This report presents information on the treatment of Palestinian children by the Israeli military. The report covers a one year period from January 2012 to December 2013. It was submitted to several relevant UN bodies that concern themselves with child ri
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Protecting Children's Rights: Europe should do more
Nils Muižnieks is a human rights activist and political scientist who has served as Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights since April 2012. This publication is in celebration of 25 years of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Chil