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Field Handbook on Unaccompanied and Separated Children
This field handbook is a product of the Inter-agency Working Group on Unaccompanied and Separated Children (IAWG UASC). It was produced in conjunction with the Toolkit on Unaccompanied and Separated Children, 2017. In 2004, the Inter-agency Guiding Princi
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From Participation to Empowerment: Including feedback from children in evaluating and improving services
This tool was produced within the context of the EU funded project "No Longer Alone: Advancing Reception Standards for Unaccompanied Minors". This tool was developed with the purpose of supporting actors in monitoring and improving reception conditions th
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Young and on the Move: Children and youth in mixed migration flows within and from the Horn of Africa
The purpose of this study is to provide an updated overview of children and youth as specific (albeit non-homogenous) groups in mixed migration flows within, through and from the Horn of Africa. The report does not purport to be exhaustive, but rather to
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In Search of a Better Future: Experiences of unaccompanied migrant children in Limpopo & Mpumalanga in South Africa
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child provide for the protection of children who are deprived of family or parental care and make it clear that such children should have acc
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Save the Children Sweden's Summer Meeting 2016
August 12-14, 2016, Save the Children Sweden set up a meeting place for unaccompanied minors in the Stockholm region. For three days, they attended workshops and discussion groups where the participants shared their stories about coming to Sweden and also
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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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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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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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The Long Road- El Camino más Largo
Children face many dangers when they try to migrate to the United States: crossing rivers, deserts and mountains; climbing on top of cargo trains to make their way, unseen. Save the Children works to protect child migrants and to prevent unsafe and forced
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Childhood and Migration in Central and North America: Causes, Policies, Practices and Challenges
This book analyzes the conditions for children and adolescents in Central and North America who are affected by migration. Every stage of the process is explored and analyzed, including their countries of origin, during transit, in destination countries,
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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