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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants on the Move in Europe: A multi-agency guidance note
An unprecedented number of individuals and families, including increasing numbers of children, have crossed the Mediterranean and Aegean seas in an attempt to reach safety and security in Europe. This guidance note, prepared my multiple agencies, provides
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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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Evaluation Sheet- End of Guardianship
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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UNHCR Refugee Coordination Model Brief
The purpose of this document is to explain UNHCR’s refugee response coordination model and the interface with broader humanitarian coordination structures and the IASC cluster system. It draws on current UNHCR practice and the Transformative Agenda’s focu
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Protection Policy Paper: Understanding community-based protection
For over a decade, UNHCR has used community-based approaches to strengthen protection. Though the term 'community-based protection' (CBP) is not widely-used, for humanitarian organisations the concepts and approaches are familiar. Drawing on documents, in
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Beyond Detention: A global strategy to support governments to end the detention of asylum-seekers and refugees
Produced by the UNHCR, this strategy puts for a global vision to: “end the detention of children; ensure that alternatives to detention are available in law and implemented in practice; ensure that conditions of detention, where detention is necessary and
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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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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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Reference Document on Unaccompanied Children
This EU Reference Document originates in the CONNECT Project, funded by the EU under a call for proposals for pilot projects on unaccompanied minors (2012), the funds for which had been allocated by the European Parliament. The Project focused on the wide
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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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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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CONNECT
Identifying good practices in, and improving, the connections between actors involved in reception, protection and integration of unaccompanied children in Europe Save the Children Sweden together with UNHCR’s Bureau for Europe, NIDOS (NL), Coram Children