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Vacancy - UNICEF - Bulgaria is looking for National Consultant to analyse the legal and policy framework, the procedures and practices for best interest assessment/best interest determination (BIA/D) of asylum-seeking and refugee children…
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News - SOS Children's Villages provide services to children and families crossing the Ukrainian border and to date, 697 displaced children are in the care of SOS across Europe. In particular, they respond to the needs of vulnerable children and their families by providing…
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News - According to UNHCR data, almost 1.7 million people have fled Ukraine because of the Russian offensive, and have gone to Poland, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia and beyond. Among the refugees there are many children, some unaccompanied or…
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Online library - Athens, Greece: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) released report that highlights the importance of strengthening the available and durable solutions for unaccompanied children in Greece.
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Children are one of the most vulnerable groupings amongst…
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News - The Council of Europe reports on a conference on protecting children from trafficking and exploitation in the Western Balkans, which took place online from 22 to 23 June, 2021. The conference was organised in the framework of the joint European Union–Council of Europe…
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Multimedia - Global Campus South East Europe/European Regional Master Programme in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe has organized an online conference ‘Children in migration: Perspectives from South East Europe in April, 2021.
The recording of the conference…
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Multimedia - Together with partner organizations, Missing Europe Children have developed the Mobile Application `Miniila`, specifically designed for unaccompanied children on the move.
The main purpose of the App is to inform children about their rights and to explain in a…
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News - The Guardian recently published an article on how the loss of right to family reunification will impact unaccompanied asylum seekers, who are waiting at the UK borders. The article coincided with the parliament vote on Lord Dub's, a former child refugee,…
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News - After Kent County Council admitted that they do not have the resources to take care of unaccompanied asylum seeking minors, they are now in the hands of Border Control and remains unclear what will happen to these children.
According to KRAN (Kent Refugees…
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KONYA, Turkey – Salimeh was nervous about fleeing from Afghanistan to Turkey as a refugee, but her husband insisted life would be better. They would be safer. They would rise out of poverty. He had no way of knowing she would have to create that new life for herself –…
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Online library - This Analysis on unaccompanied and separated girls, highlighting how lack of understanding of gender-specific vulnerabilities, needs, appropriate identification and support system is making girls ‘invisible’ and thus, hindering their access to…
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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 - Roughly 400 of the 2000 children in Samos, Greece, hopes to go to the UK to be reuinited with their family members, but the majority in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom voted against it.
These children live in really poor…
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Online library - This study, published by the Crisis Response and Policy Centre (Serbia), presents the outcome of the Migrant Vulnerability in Irregular Movement Project, supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration.
The publication consists of three major parts that…
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News - Following bad publicity around child refugees in conservative-supporting newspapers, and Theresa May’s decision, according to the ‘Dubs amendment’ only 350 unaccompanied children will be taken from this month. Charity representatives said that this provides a profit…
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News - The HOME Project Greece won Child 10's annual award on the EU's Anti-Trafficking day, 18 October.
The award was launched in 2014 with the aim to reward those who protect and help refugee children. With this award, the project…
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News - There is a house in a quiet neighbourhood in Belgrade where the most vulnerable children have a chance for a better life. The “Pedro Arrupe” Integration House is a shelter for victims of physical, psychological and sexual violence, and to young boys at risk of becoming…
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Online library - From the introduction of the document:
More than a quarter of the refugee and migrants who arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean routes so far this year were children. Many of them arrived withouth parents. Some were accompanied by other relatives while others…
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News - The recent increase of unaccompanied migrant children raises serious issues in child protection. More and more refugee children arrive in the country without parental or other protection. There are only 1.169 available long-term accommodation options, but now 3.041…
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News - There were 4,501 unaccompanied children in Greece at the end of September and the numbers are rising, which give a big challenge to the country’s child protection mechanisms.
The Labor and Social Affairs Ministry tries to improve the circumstances for thousands of refugee…
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[European Union] Spain and France Dismantle Human Trafficking Group Targeting Unaccompanied Children
News - This month, with the help of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), the Spanish and French national police dismantled a large poly-criminal network involved in migrant smuggling, and human and drug trafficking. The joint police action led to the…
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'Children Stuck in Limbo: Examining the Vulnerability of Unaccompanied Minors in Northern France' is a recent report published by Refugee Rights Europe in response to the dangerous situation in Calais, Northern France, where tightened border security has caused a bottleneck…
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News - FutureLearn, an awarded platform for online learning is now offering a new online course, ‘Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting Unaccompanied and Separated Children.’
The course focuses on the care and protection of unaccompanied and separated refugee and…
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News - The VICE article on children trapped in Spanish enclaves paints a powerful picture of the experience of one of the most vulnerable groups: unaccompanied refugee and migrant children.
Spain has seen many cases of migrant children coming recently. They are known as…
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News - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced that the first Safety Zone for unaccompanied children in the RRC Sofia - Voenna Rampa opened its doors on 17 June, 2019. During its first week, 39 unaccompanied children were accommodated and registered.…
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News - The project partners in ProGuard, a project co-funded by the REC Programme of the European Commission, have been working together to strengthen effective guardianship for unaccompanied children across Europe since October 2017. One of the goals of this project has been to…
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Online library - This report highlights the latest trends and developments in the situation of refugees and migrants in the Republic of Serbia, based on the data and a series of testimonies collected by the Humanitarian Centre for Integration and Tolerance (HCIT) and the Crisis…
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Online library - There is a growing awareness about how important is that children are included in the decisions concerning themselves, that their voices are heard and their opinion and experience are taken into account. This becomes even more relevant in cases on…
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News - More than 1,600 children are reportedly missing since 2015 from the Dutch asylum centers, according to COA, the central agency for the reception of asylum seekers in the Netherlands, and Nidos, an independent family guardian organization that fulfils the guardianship…
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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…
