18 January 2022

Thematic Focus: Children & Families - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

Asylum seekers: why UK needs to change how it assesses the age of new arrivals  (The Conversation, Jan. 2022) [text]

How Canada should be preparing to help young Afghan refugees (The Conversation, Jan. 2022) [text]

New Open Access book:

Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Attributes (Springer, Jan. 2022) [open access]
- See esp. chapters on "Article 9: The Right Not to Be Separated from Parents," "Article 10: The Right to Family Reunification," and "Article 22: The Right to Protection for Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children."

Reports:

Key recommendations: 2022 Human Rights Council Annual Day on the Rights of the Child, related OHCHR report and resolution on the theme “rights of the child and family reunification” (UNICEF et al., Oct. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Relaunching the Central American Minors Program: Opportunities to Enhance Child Safety and Family Reunification (Migration Policy Institute, Dec. 2021) [text]

Unaccompanied children outside the child protection system – Case study: Pakistani children in Greece (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Dec. 2021) [text]

Unrepresented Families Seeking Asylum on "Dedicated Docket" Ordered Deported by Immigration Courts (TRAC, Jan. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

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