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News - ”It is estimated that more than 10,000 children are held in criminal justice-related detention in Europe. Globally, the number of children deprived of their liberty in either prison or pre-trial detention facilities ranged between 160 000 and 250 000 on any given day in 2018…
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News - “What did I say to the detained teenagers? I told them that life never loses its meaning, they should trust that they will find it again”, tells us Petrică Bora, a former detainee, now a mentor for youth in contact with the law, within the team of Terre des hommes Foundation…
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Multimedia - Within the FOCUS project, four videos were produced, reflecting four perspectives on the situation of children in detention or educational centres. The purpose of the project was to promote child-centered justice and to ensure that minors who come into contact with the…
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Multimedia - Youth in detention, whether victims or perpetrators, must benefit from an individual assessment and must have access to individual support. They have rights, including the right to social assistance, psychological guidance, the right to education and social…
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News - Minors and young people in education and detention centers in Romania have the right to a future. Terre des hommes (Tdh) has implemented the PRECISION project since the beginning of 2020 to support the rehabilitation of minors and young people deprived of their…
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News - An investigation by the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland found that a significant number of children could have been held unlawfully for at least part of their detention.  They analysed the cases of 118 children who may have unlawfully been locked…
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News - A union of charities announced the case of closing England’s child prisons due to the ill-treatment of children meanwhile COVID 19 is intensifying that harm. The announcement originally came out in 2016 but there was nothing done about it. Officials think about turning one…
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News - Freedom is as important as life itself; a lesson most young people in detention become keenly aware of. Young people in detention have the right to a decent future, and their time in detention should help prepare them for this. But how do they actually live, and more…
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News - The Romanian delegation of Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is looking for virtual ”swimmers ”/ fundraisers / supporters for a special Swimathon Bucharest event that will take place online between June and July 2020. Due to current health concerns, the…
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Online library - The research of the New Truth Project on child sexual abuse in custodial institutions revealed that children who had been exposed to such inhuman treatment faced extreme violence. Child sexual abuse survivors from the 1950s–2010s shared their…
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News - During the COVID-19 pandemic, Terre des hommes is calling on States to release all children from immigration detention, and to accelerate the release of children deprived of liberty in criminal justice or protection facilities. Urgent attention should be given to the…
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News - 'Restore legality to protect refugees and the society at large amidst the pandemic'   Open letter signed by 121 Organizations To The President of Greece, Katerina Sakellaropoulou The President of the Hellenic Parliament, Constantine An. Tassoulas The Prime Minister of…
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Webinar - About the webinar: The United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Their Liberty reported that “there are still at least 410,000 children held in detention every year in remand centres and prisons. This does not include an estimated 1 million…
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News - Annie Chapman, a doctor from London and a volunteer of the Boat Refugee Foundation (BRF) in Lesbos, Greece, has recently published an observer special report at the Guardian. Her story about dire living conditions and a close look at cases of several patients sensibly…
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News - A young asylum seeker from Afghanistan underwent a shocking journey as he fled his home country for the UK. During this time the British authorities continued to assess his age as no one believed he was under 18. Unfortunately, having lost…
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News - The ‘Human Rights Watch’ reports that Greece is processing this week a draft law relevant to the reduce of migrants’ arrival in the country from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. Many ‘’alarms’’ are being emerged about the possible attenuation of asylum seekers’ protection.…
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News - On 8 October 2019, the Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, a document of unprecedented reach, was presented at the UN General Assembly by the independent expert, Manfred Nowak. Terre des hommes (Tdh) actively contributed by collecting children’s views to…
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News - On June 4th, Terre des hommes Romania (Tdh) hosted a conference with the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) about alternatives to child detention in the context of migration and asylum. Guests from around Europe were present to discuss…
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Webinar - About the webinar: This webinar will focus on the issue of detention of child immigrants in the European context and the potential alternatives that might counter detention. Kadri Soova (PICUM) will address the current state of detention of child immigrants in European…
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News - Immigration detention of children, both of children who are alone or with their  families, is a widespread practice in EU member  states.  Although numbers  of children in detention are not adequately collected and published on national  level, the…
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News - The Council of Europe has recognized the detention of migrant and refugee children as a harmful practice that violates the rights of detainees. In the 2016–2021 Strategy for the Rights of the Child, the Children’s Rights division of the Council of Europe provided guidance on…
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Online library - The main objective of the visit was to review the measures taken by the Hungarian authorities to implement the recommendations made by the CPT in its report on the 2015 ad hoc visit to Hungary and to review the implementation in practice of the recently amended…
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Online library - Juvenile justice systems in Europe have undergone considerable change over the past 20 years, particularly those in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). These legal and structural changes concerned the implementation of alternative measures, diversion, victim-offender…
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Online library - This paper sets out and analyses the European and international standards relevant to alternatives to detention for persons who may be lawfully deprived of their liberty in accordance with Article 5 § 1(f) and, under certain circumstances, 5 § 1…
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Event - At least 250,000 children are reported missing every year in the European Union. Of these, missing unaccompanied migrant children represent the highest number of cases that go unreported, for reasons relating to fear of deportation or detention, inadequate reception…
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Event - The European Forum on the rights of the child is an annual conference organised by the European Commission. It gathers key actors from EU Member States (as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the Western Balkans), international organisations, NGOs,…
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Event - Defence for Children International and SOS-Torture Network are jointly launching the 'Justice for Children Award', which is conferred to the best academic paper written by students enrolled in European higher institutions. This year's theme focuses on violence against…
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Online library - Europe has adhered to a mixture of policies in response to the contemporary migrant crises through the "European Agenda on Migration". The objective of this scheme is to lower the number of refugees and migrants entering the continent while elevating the equivalent…
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Online library - "This publication was compiled with the aim of facilitating alternatives to detention and reducing the number of children in detention in Palestine. This Report covers alternatives to deprivation of liberty, from the prosecution stage onwards, as stipulated in…
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Webinar - About the webinar: This is a joint webinar with the Destination Unknown Campaign and Terre des Hommes on child rights within the UN Global Compacts. At last September’s high-level Summit for Refugees and Migrants, the UN General Assembly adopted the New…