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On their Own: A call to relocate the most vulnerable in Europe
This year we have seen a child refugee crisis spiral out of control. Children have been dying on our doorstep. The UN says more than 350,000 refugees and migrants have used the dangerous sea route across the Mediterranean so far this year, with almost 235
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Standards to Ensure that Unaccompanied Migrant Children are Able to Fully Participate: A tool to assis actors in legal and judicial proceedings
Save the Children Sweden together with UNHCR’s Bureau for Europe, NIDOS in the Netherlands, Coram Children’s Legal Centre in the UK, Save the Children Italy, Don Calabria Institute, the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies in Italy and the Count
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Psychosocial Handbook for Social Workers in Charge of Receiving Unaccompanied Foreign Minors
Terre des Hommes Italy published this guide in order to provide assistance to the educators, cultural mediators, and social workers who aid migrant children arriving by sea and arrive in the various shelters in Italy. The purpose is to provide children wi
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Uprooted (Arrancados de raiz)
Uprooted highlights the situation of the thousands of unaccompanied or separated children (UASCs) moving across borders from Central America into Mexico. The study is based on a mixed research methodology, involving group discussions with 200 UASC and ind
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Disrupted Flight: The realities of separated refugee families in the EU
This report analyses the reality of family reunification in Europe for a particularly vulnerable group of migrants, people in need of international protection. An informal network of ECRE members and Red Cross offices working in the field of family reunif
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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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UNHCR Child Protection Regional Initiative- Live, Learn & Play Safe 2014-2016
Unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) are vulnerable to many threats and face particular protection challenges and an uncertain future. This publication looks at the lives of UASC in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Yemen. It examines the particular and
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Unaccompanied Alien Children: Demographics in Brief
This publication focuses on the demographics of unaccompanied children who have arrived in the United States from Latin America. Overwhelmingly, the children are coming from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The average age has decreased from 17 in 20
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Strengthening Child Protection Systems for Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Mozambique: A case study of the border town of Ressano Garcia
This research sets out to understand the why, how and with whom of rural-urban internal migration of children to Ressano Garcia, a border town between Mozambique and South Africa. It addresses the overarching research question of how to strengthen child p
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An EU Agenda for the Rights of the Child. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions
An agenda for reinforcing children's rights in the EU by putting the principles included in the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights into action. It lists 11 actions that the Commission will take over the next years to protect children’s rights, including p
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Migrants in an irregular situation: access to healthcare in 10 European Union Member States
This report looks at the law and practice concerning access to healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation in 10 EU Member States, namely Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden. It focuses on migrants who
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Trees only move in the wind: A study of unaccompanied Afghan children in Europe
‘A tree does not move unless there is wind’ is an Afghan proverb which, roughly translated, means ‘there is no smoke without fire’, or ‘nothing happens without a reason’. The proverb provides an appropriate title for a report that tries to explain why sig