Erroneous age assessment of young asylum seekers

At 94 % specificity (proportion of 17-year-olds that the test indicates are no more than 17 years old), 6 %, i.e. five of the 17-year-olds, will ...

Erroneous age assessment of young asylum seekers - PubMed

Erroneous age assessment of young asylum seekers ... Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2022 Aug 8;142(11). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.22.0307. Print 2022 Aug 16.

More than 1000 child refugees at risk after being classified as adults

Over an 18-month period at least 1,300 child refugees were failed by the Home Office's flawed age assessment process and suffered harm, ...

How European countries wrongfully classify children seeking ...

Overall, the flaws in age assessment systems are reflective of the problems within European asylum systems as a whole, lawyers, researchers, and ...

Asylum age assessments are unethical - CYP Now

The Home Office is clearly ramping up the use of age assessments for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, making inflammatory suggestions ...

Hundreds of UK asylum seeker children wrongly treated as adults ...

A report that collated the data from FoI responses from 70 different local authorities about age assessments carried out by specialist social ...

Ditch age assessment X-rays - Refugee Council

In this opinion piece, Professor Andrew Rowland and Refugee Council CEO Enver Solomon explore the latest development in the UK Government's ...

Age-disputed Refugee Children - Hansard - UK Parliament

Incorrect assessments result in children being placed in adult accommodation and immigration detention, exposing them to significant ...

Dental Radiographs for Age Estimation in US Asylum Seekers

... age assessment lack the legal representation to challenge an incorrect ... assessment of age in children and young people subject to immigration control.

FORCED ADULTHOOD - Refugee Council

The issues raised in this report are particularly relevant to this group of young people as they are subjected to a flawed age-assessment process. If found to ...

Disbelieved and denied - Helen Bamber Foundation

... flawed policy and ensuring that all children whose ages are ... Age Estimation Science Advisory Committee, Biological methods to assess unaccompanied asylum- ...

WMA Statement on Medical Age Assessment of Unaccompanied ...

The WMA asserts that, in cases where medical age assessment is unavoidable, the health and safety and dignity of the young asylum seeker must be the highest ...

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Government presses ahead with scientific asylum age assessments ...

The government is pressing ahead with the use of scientific age assessments of asylum-seeking young people in the face of severe criticisms.

The assessment of age in undocumented migrants

To date, there is no good information on the application of this technique to age assessment of asylum seekers. ... 10) Refugee and asylum seeking children's ...

Use of x-rays in asylum age assessments “inaccurate” and ...

Medical experts have criticised the use of x-rays to determine the age of lone migrant children and young people seeking asylum in the UK.

Age assessment of asylum seekers: where have we got to?

Morally and ethically, unaccompanied children seeking asylum deserve to be treated differently than young adults seeking asylum, but such ...

Young Roots calls for improved decision-making in age ...

Young Roots calls for improved decision-making in age assessments of young asylum seekers ... Young Roots, a charity that supports young refugees, ...

Immigration policy on assessing age of young asylum seekers found ...

Disputing the age of children in the immigration system, highlighted that while there are some cases where there is genuine uncertainty over age ...

Addressing the limitations of age determination for unaccompanied ...

Many unaccompanied children and young people arriving in countries seeking asylum lack official documents showing their identity and age. Chronological age is ...