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UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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The Heart of the Matter: Assessing Credibility when Children Apply for Asylum in the European Union
A positive credibility finding is a prerequisite for being recognized as a refugee, whether the applicant is an adult or a child. This report contributes to research on credibility assessment of children, when previous research has focused on credibility
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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