02 June 2021

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Age Assessment in the New Plan: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed… Something Blue? (RLI Blog, May 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

U.S. Government Makes Significant Strides in Receiving Unaccompanied Children but Major Challenges Remain (MPI Commentary, May 2021) [text]

Reports:

2021 UNHCR Best Interests Procedure Guidelines: Assessing and Determining the Best Interests of the Child (UNHCR, May 2021) [text]
- "The Guidelines replace both the 2008 UNHCR Guidelines on Determining the Best Interests of the Child and the 2011 Field Handbook for the Implementation of UNHCR BID Guidelines. The Guidelines build on the practice of domestic child protection systems and the first 13 years of implementation of the 2008 UNHCR Guidelines on Determining the Best Interests of the Child. The Guidelines were first released in provisional form in 2018 and were finalized following internal and external consultation in 2020."

DTM Focused on Refugee and Migrant Children, on a Long Stay or Street Situation: General Report (IOM, Feb. 2021; posted April 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Venezuelans in Colombia. See also Spanish version.

Family Reunification Practices in Finland (Finnish Refugee Advice Centre & UNHCR, March 2021) [text]

Futures at risk: protecting the rights of children on the move in a changing climate (UNICEF, May 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report and executive summary.

ICE did not Consistently Provide Separated Migrant Parents the Opportunity to Bring Their Children Upon Removal (US Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, May 2021) [text]
- See also related blog post.

Protection Service Pilot Study Outcomes: Enhancing child protection services by incorporating Cash-based Interventions as part of comprehensive programming (UNHCR, Oct. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Syrians in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.

Realising Family Reunification: Travel Assistance & Related Matters (UNHCR, IOM & Irish Red Cross, 2020) [text]

Unaccompanied Children at the Gates of Europe: Voices from Samos (Refugee Rights Europe & Still I Rise, May 2021) [text]

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