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Transnational Coordination Mechanisms for the Protection of Children on the Move in the Context of International Migration and the Fulfilment of their Human Rights. Submission by Save the Children
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (the Committee) dedicates annually one Day of General Discussion (DGD) to a specific article of the Convention on the Rights or to a child-rights issue. This year's discussion is dedicated to the theme of “The Righ
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Which protection for children involved in mobility in West Africa
Summary translation of of the report "Quelle protection pour les enfants concernés par la mobilité en Afrique de l’Ouest?", which analyses the mobility of youth and children in West and Central Africa. The publication documents a two year research project
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Praesidium Project. Recommendations and good practices in the management of mixed migratory flows by sea
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Red Cross and Save the Children are part of the inter-agency Praesidium Project aimed at strengthening the management capacity for 'mixed mi
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Position paper on age assessment in the context of separated children in Europe
This paper represents the position of the Separated Children in Europe Programme (SCEP) on age assessment in the context of separated children, and aims to provide concrete recommendations to States and other relevant stakeholders in Europe on how to ensu
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Guaranteeing Access to Health for Undocumented Migrants in Europe: What Role Can Local and Regional Authorities Play?
PICUM's new report Guaranteeing Access to Health Care for Undocumented Migrants in Europe: What Role Can Local and Regional Authorities Play? outlines the crucial role played by local and regional authorities in ensuring the implementation of fundamental
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Children First and Foremost: A guide to realising the rights of children and families in an irregular migration situation
This guide is the result of PICUM's two year project “Building Strategies to Improve the Protection of Undocumented Children in Europe”, which aimed to spread understanding of the challenges children in an irregular migration situation face in accessing t
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Why children matter: Experiences and lessons learnt from interventions to protect children on the move
This paper was developed for the side event to the 46th Session of the Commission on Population and Development which took place in New York in April. It highlights the importance for the international debate on migration and development to properly take
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Modern Mobility: The role of ICTs in child and youth migration
"Modern Mobility: the role of ICTs in child and youth migration” presents an overview of how children and youth on the move are using information and communication technologies (ICTs) of their own accord. It takes a look at:- how children and youth are us
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Child Protection in the Philippines- A situational analysis
A situation analysis on Child Protection in the Philippines commissioned by the Save the Children Child Protection Initiative (CPI) that could be used to guide the development of child protection interventions under CPI's priority areas, which include: Ch
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Core Standards for guardians of separated children in Europe. Goals for guardians and authorities
The Ten Core Standards for guardians of separated children are the result of an extensive project that was coordinated by Defence for Children in eight European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Sweden). T
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Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in low-income and middle-income countries: risk and protective factors
A two-part study published in the Lancet, which stresses the need for high-income countries and international agencies to contribute towards the funding of mental health interventions for some of the world’s most vulnerable children. According to the repo
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Last resort or first resort? Immigration detention of children in the UK
BID and The Children's Society have published a new report on the detention of children for immigration purposes, titled ‘Last resort or first resort? Immigration detention of children in the UK. The report follows a year of intensive campaigning in partn