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Unaccompanied children
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Who’s Responsible?: A tool to strengthen cooperation between actors involved in the protection system for unaccompanied migrant children
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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The Forgotten Children: National inquiry into children in immigration detention, 2014
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
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Measuring Separation in Emergencies: Pilot summary report Democratic Republic of Congo
The Measuring Separation in Emergencies (MSiE) project is an interagency initiative funded by the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and is coordinated by Save the Children in partnership with Columbia University and Johns Hopkins Universi
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Local Co-Operation for Unaccompanied Children: A tool to assess and improve reception conditions
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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Guardianship for children deprived of parental care: A handbook to reinforce guardianship systems to cater for the specific needs of child victims of trafficking
A report on child trafficking published by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in 2009 showed significant differences among European Union (EU) Member States on how the concept of guardian is understood and applied. In addition, intervi
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Child Protection Issue Brief: Alternative Care
This Issue Brief addresses Alternative Care and the relating key concepts of: unaccompanied children, separated children, caregivers, family tracing and reunification, and child-headed households. The UN Refugee Agency is in a unique position to emphasize
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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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Forced from home: The lost boys and girls from Central America
Increasing drug and organized crime violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is the primary reason behind a dramatic upsurge in the number of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the border into the United States, and until conditions in these
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Right to Asylum for Unaccompanied Minors in the European Union: Comparative study in the 27 EU countries
Although the right to asylum is provided by a European and international legal framework that is legally binding on all EU member states, unaccompanied children face many obstacles when accessing their right to asylum in Europe. This publication, coordina
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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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Children on the Move. Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020. Investment in children
Negotiations on the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) are expected to end by mid 2013, allowing the new EU budget to enter into force in 2014. The MFF will establish EU spending between 2014 and 2020 and provides a political as well as budge
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Report on the situation of unaccompanied minors in the EU (2012/2263(INI)
Committee Report on the situation of unaccompanied minors in the EU, by ALDE MEP Nathalie Griesbeck, adopted by the European Parliament. The main message of the report is that the situation of unaccompanied minors arriving in the EU needs to be tackled w