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This is Who We Are: A study of the profile, experiences and reasons for flight of unaccompanied and separated children from Afghanistan seeking asylum in Sweden in 2015
Written in collaboration with the Swedish Migration Agency, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) profiled over 240 unaccompanied and separated children, focusing on Afghan children, arriving in Sweden in order to begin addressing the information
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Afghan Children Cannot Wait: The case for investing in their future now
In 2015, 90,000 unaccompanied children were registered as asylum-seekers in Europe; over half of them were from Afghanistan. A total of 178,000 Afghan asylum-seekers arrived to Europe in 2015, four times as many as the year before. While many Afghans come
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Child Protection in Emergencies Facts and Figures
Compiled by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), this report presents facts and figures on child protection in emergencies. Data was collected for the 42 countries that have a Humanitarian Coordinator or that were on the Inter-Agency's Standing Comm
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Kinship Care Report: Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan
Building upon a Save the Children regional participatory research initiative on kinship care that was undertaken in West Central Africa and East Africa, Save the Children in Jordan adapted the research methodology to focus on kinship care of children in a
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Children asking for international protection
This leaflet contains information for unaccompanied or separated children who find themselves in one of the 32 ’Dublin countries’, i.e. countries that have signed and agreed to the Dublin Regulation Law. The content of this document is intended to clarify
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Children's Rights in Return Policy and Practice in Europe: A discussion paper on the return of unaccompanied and separated children to institutional reception or family
Every year thousands of unaccompanied or separated children enter the EU, creating challenges for European States to ensure that the children are given appropriate care and protection and have their rights respected in line with all international obligati
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Addressing Protection Needs of Unaccompanied Children within the Context of the Dublin related Procedures
In Europe, Save the Children works through 13 national members and through their EU Office in Brussels advocating for better policies and practices in the EU institutions and in the Member States. This document provides comments from Save the Children on
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Unaccompanied Child Migration to the United States: The Tension between Protection and Prevention
This research report, published by the Migration Policy Institute and written by Marc R. Rosenblum, explains the shifting patterns of Central American migration between 2011 and 2014 while analysing the policy challenges that these increased flows placed
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BARN: Värld på Flykt. Nr 2, 2015
This edition of Save the Children Sweden's quarterly magazine "Barn" examines the lives of those families and children who live in refugee camps as a result of the conflict in Syria. It also discusses the question of boat migration via the Mediterranean S
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Protecting Child Refugees from South Sudan
After four years of independence, there is little to celebrate in South Sudan. Since the start of the conflict in December 2013, humanitarian needs in South Sudan have escalated to alarming levels. In addition to the 1.6 million people currently displaced
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Seven Suitcases
Published by UNICEF Hungary, this video is made from the drawings of children fleeing conflict. The children narrate the film and share why they had to leave their homes and friends and how difficult it was to start a new life.
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Mellan Stolarna, Episode 5, Snacka loss
In an uncertain world, many children are arriving in Sweden alone. How can we be better at meeting them? In this episode of Save the Children Sweden’s podcast ‘Mellan Stolarna’, experts discuss unaccompanied children and the Save the Children discussion m