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Child detention
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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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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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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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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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Protection of Refugee Children in the Middle East and North Africa
This report highlights good practices undertaken by UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, non-governmental organizations, and other partners across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in protecting refugee children in the re
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Two Years With No Moon: Immigration Detention of Children in Thailand
In this report, Human Rights Watch examines the conditions and lives of migrant and refugee children detained for extended periods of time in squalid detention facilities in Thailand. These conditions and the arbitrary treatment of these children are foun
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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