During 2016-2017, 300,000 unaccompanied and displaced children from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala were detained in the United States. The migration is primarily due to violence and poverty in their home countries. Save the Children is actively work

This report is the collaboration of Save the Children and the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network with funding support from the Oak Foundation. This report examines current policy framework and practices in five countries, namely Malaysia, Thailand, Indon

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

March 26 and 27, 2015, a workshop on monitoring immigration detention for European NGOs was held in Brussels. It was organized by the Flemish Refugee Action and the International Detention Coalition. The goal of the workshop was to strengthen civil societ

The first version of the There Are Alternatives handbook was published in 2011 by the International Detention Coalition. This updated edition provides further research and findings over the elapsed four years, incorporating research from an additional 20

This report gives a voice to the approximate 800 children held in mandatory closed immigration detention for indefinite periods of time by Australia. Children and their families provide compelling evidence of the impact that prolonged immigration detentio

Produced by the UNHCR, this strategy puts for a global vision to: “end the detention of children; ensure that alternatives to detention are available in law and implemented in practice; ensure that conditions of detention, where detention is necessary and

Most children who immigrate to the United Kingdom do so because they seek protection, often from persecution, human rights violations, or the threat of wartime violence in their home country. Yet, they are met as hostiles when they enter their expected sa