Preventing the immigration detention of children

UNHCR’s position on the detention of refugee and migrant children

• Children should not be detained;

• Detention is never in their best interests;

• Appropriate care arrangements and community-based programmes need to be in place.

Convention on the Rights of the Child

• Appropriate protection and humanitarian assistance for asylum-seeking children (Article 22);

• Deprivation of liberty (Article 37b);

• The best interests of the child principle (Article 3).

Tools of the Global Strategy:

1. Problem analysis and diagnosis

2. Advocacy interventions

3. Awareness raising and campaigning

4. Capacity-building

5. Monitoring places of immigration detention

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Children deserve attention,

not detention

‘Global Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Programme to Prevent Detention of Children and to Protect Children and other

Asylum-Seekers in Detention’ This project is co-funded by the European

Union.