Children’s Rights

UN Child Rights Experts Call for EU-Wide Ban on Child Immigration Detention

By OHCHR on 22 February 2018

Ahead of a key meeting of EU institutions and member states on issues relating to immigration and asylum, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued an urgent plea for EU countries to bring an end to the migration-related detention of children. “EU law should not allow for child immigration detention, even as a last […]

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