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Children seeking safety and asylum in Europe


Pushing Back Protection: How Offshoring and Externalization Imperil ...

International asylum law first emerged following the Holocaust and other atrocities during World War II. The world bore witness to the ...

Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) - West Sussex ...

In 2018, 32 per cent of asylum seekers that arrived in Europe were children. Out of the 32 per cent, 8,975 children arrived in the U.K. This was approximately 4 ...

Refugee and migrant health EURO

An estimated 101 million migrants, including 12.5 million refugees, live in the WHO European Region, including in the countries of central Asia. Refugees and ...

The EU Migration Pact: a dangerous regime of migrant surveillance

The New Pact on Migration and Asylum ushers in a deadly new era of digital surveillance, expanding the digital infrastructure for an EU border regime.

Asylum regulations - Migrationsverket

When the reasons for seeking asylum are examined, the case officer must adapt the investigation as much as possible to the child's age, health, ...

How to support refugee and asylum-seeking children and young ...

A literature review found that children seeking asylum in Europe experience a range of mental health difficulties, including post-traumatic ...

Facts about refugees - Refugee Action

The 1951 Refugee Convention does not require a person to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach. People trying to cross the Channel can legitimately ...

IRAP Europe - International Refugee Assistance Project

As with our offices in the Americas and the Middle East, IRAP Europe uses the power of the law to help displaced people from around the world find a safe place ...

Number of Refugees to Europe Surges to Record 1.3 Million in 2015

Refugees did not disperse equally across Europe, with some countries taking in more asylum seekers than the European average. In 2015, the EU-28 ...

ECRE's work on the rights of refugee children

Recently, the need to ensure that children's rights are guaranteed within the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) has become more important due to the dramatic ...

Refugee crisis in Europe and the rights of children - ECPAT UK

Lone children seeking asylum in the UK placed in Home Office hotels are at increased risk of exploitation suggests new publication by UCL ...

[European Union] The story of Europe's 210000 unaccompanied ...

Although right to asylum is provided by a European and international legal framework binding for States, unaccompanied children face obstacles when accessing ...

A humane EU Migration Pact | Greens/EFA

We need an EU migration and asylum pact that treats people seeking safety with dignity. ... children and families at the external borders of the EU ...

Refugee Admissions - United States Department of State

The US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) accepts referrals for refugees determined to be particularly vulnerable and in need of the protection provided by ...

How to get asylum from a European country? I have good education ...

The rules for seeking asylum in the UK are clear, you make your application from the country you currently live in, your application is reviewed ...

SG INF 2016 9E Protecting children affected by refugee crisis SG ...

Prevent migrant and asylum-seeking children from falling victim to violence, abuse, exploitation and trafficking. To secure adequate protection, ...

Is Albania a safe country? - Migrant & Refugee Children's Legal Unit

For example, for citizens of European Union countries there is a near-automatic blanket ban on making asylum claims in the UK. Any asylum claim ...

Syria Refugee Crisis Explained - USA for UNHCR

Syrian refugees have sought asylum in more than ... The economic downturn has also exposed them to multiple protection risks, such as child ...

The EU's new migration and asylum pact hollows out the right to ...

Increased use of detention – even for children ... While border procedures are being processed, asylum seekers have no right to enter EU territory ...

LGBTQ+ migrants seek safety and asylum in Europe - AP News

According to refugee norms, applicants for asylum can be granted international protection based on being a “member of a particular social group.