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Safe & Sound: What States can do to ensure respect for the best interests of unaccompanied and separated children in Europe
Drafted by the UNHCR and UNICEF, this document aims to support States in the European Union and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in applying the best interests principle as a primary consideration when dealing with unaccompanied and separated ch
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Protection Checklist: Addressing Displacement and Protection of Displaced Populations and Affected Communities along the Conflict Cycle: a Collaborative Approach
This Protection Checklist is a coordinated effort to ensure that protection to displaced persons is delivered in a timely manner. Generalized violence saw 45.2 million people forcibly displaced at the end of 2012 across the globe. These persons and divers
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Joint UNHCR-OCHA Note on Mixed Situations Coordination in Practice
This Note provides guidance on how--in "mixed" settings where the populations of humanitarian concern include refugees, IDPs and other affected groups--the leadership and coordination mechanisms should function in practice. It sets out the respective acco
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Child protection Issue Brief: Sexual violence against children
This is UNHCR’s 2014 Child Protection Issue Brief on sexual violence against children. Refugee and displaced women, girls, and boys are disproportionally at risk of sexual violence, used as a weapon of war. In addition, emergency and poor living condition
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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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Refugee Protection and International Migration: Trends August 2013- July 2014
This update provides a short overview of trends, challenges and UNHCR responses to mixed movements globally and across regions in the period from August 2013 to July 2014. In some instances, and where updated information was available, the time frame was
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Unaccompanied and Separated Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children Turning Eighteen: What to celebrate?
What happens to unaccompanied or separated asylum seeking children when they reach the age of 18, the age of majority? This study attempts to collect data and examples of practices in Council of Europe Member States on this issue, giving specific focus to
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UNHCR Refugee Teachers: A quick guide
This guide provides four basic programming recommendations for managing refugee teachers, particularly in camp settings: assessing needs, recruiting, training and motivating refugee teachers. Program managers responsible for recruiting, managing and train
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Ending Statelessness Within 10 Years: A special report
UNHCR insists that the problem of statelessness is largely avoidable, and with adequate political will, entirely solvable too. A major hurdle to solutions is that governments and UNHCR lack adequate data on many stateless populations. Frequently stateless
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CONNECT Project Report
The CONNECT project concerns reception, protection and integration policies for unaccompanied children, with a focus on how actors work individually and together to respond to the rights of these children and fulfil EU law obligations in their regard. Thr
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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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Child Protection Sessions for Parents and Caregivers. Training Toolkit
This toolkit was originally created for Jordan, with special emphasis on Syrian refugees, but the issues dealt with in the toolkit can be applied to any country. The development of this tool was an interagency initiative led by Save the Children Internati