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An unaccompanied minor at the International Children's Center in Chicago plays with a toy train.
An unaccompanied minor at the International Children’s Center in Chicago plays with a toy train in his room Oct. 19, 2006. The center is a shelter that provides children, who have entered the U.S. illegally, with law students who serve as child-protection advocates. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
For two years, Rosie Reid-Correa worked at three shelters in Arizona addressing the medical needs of minors who traveled alone to the United States.

More unaccompanied minors arriving in the U.S. than ever before

An unaccompanied minor at the International Children’s Center in Chicago plays with a toy train in his room Oct. 19, 2006. The center is ...
Four-year-old Adel and his 1-year-old sister Nour crossed the border from Syria to Lebanon alone. Their father had come to Lebanon in search of a place to settle, leaving his two wives and their children in Syria. When the time came, his second wife and her children crossed the border together, but Adel and Nour’s mother fled their hometown of Tal Kalakh, abandoning the children in Syria.
His wife, Fatima, recounted to The Daily Star how the father was able to arrange for the brother and sister to travel with strangers, paying to have them smuggled into Lebanon by boat, a process Syrian refugees at the NGO Women’s Charity League in Halba, say costs around $400 per person.
Now reunited with their father and siblings, Adel and Nour have no ID papers or documents, save for a letter from the local mukhtar noting their names and ages. Nevertheless, they are among the lucky ones.
There are a myriad of reasons why children become separated from their families in crisis situations. Of the rising number of Syrian children who came to Lebanon unaccompanied, some were separated from family accidently, during an evacuation or at the borders, and others were simply abandoned, some out of the belief that they would have a better chance of survival.

Unaccompanied Syrian children arrive in Lebanon under the radar

Four-year-old Adel and his 1-year-old sister Nour crossed the border from  Syria  to  Lebanon  alone. Their father had come to Lebanon in s...
Almost 200 children will be moved out of the Pontville immigration detention centre in Tasmania and into the community, while more than 60 children are being detained on Christmas Island awaiting offshore transfer.
Huts at the Pontville Detention Centre outside Hobart
Some of the children from Pontville will be moved to community-based detention in other states, but some will be moved to new group homes being set up for the first time in southern Tasmania.

200 children to be released from Tasmania's Pontville immigration detention centre into community

Almost 200 children will be moved out of the Pontville immigration detention centre in Tasmania and into the community, while more than 60 ...
A SOMALI teenager subject to Labor's new policy to deny boatpeople asylum in Australia was seriously ill at Royal Perth Hospital last night after being found hanging on Christmas Island.
The 16-year-old boy was flown from the Australian territory to Perth in a medical emergency on Sunday. He was among a group of unaccompanied minors on Christmas Island, considered especially vulnerable because they are in immigration detention without a parent or guardian.
In legal terms, asylum-seekers who arrive by boat without a parent or guardian are wards of Immigration Minister Tony Burke.
The discovery of the boy hanging in a bathroom triggered a series of frantic phone calls to find a jet equipped to transfer him to a mainland hospital.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service's plane was out of service and the next closest medical charter flight company also did not have a plane. The jet that picked up the teenager came from Coolangatta in Queensland and he made the 2600km journey from Christmas Island to Perth on Sunday morning.

Asylum-seeker child tries to take his life in detention

A SOMALI teenager subject to Labor's new policy to deny boatpeople asylum in Australia was seriously ill at Royal Perth Hospital last ...
Six years ago, when Najib* was 15, Taliban fighters came to his home in Shinwar District* in the eastern province of Nangarhar telling him to join them. After repeated visits, his family sought a way for Najib to escape, and paid a smuggler to take him to the UK. 

Insecurity driving Afghan child migration

Six years ago, when Najib* was 15, Taliban fighters came to his home in Shinwar District* in the eastern province of Nangarhar telling him t...
As Amnesty activists arrive to the Greek Island of Lesvos to call for an end to push-backs of refugees’ and migrants’ on their arrival to Greece, researcher Kondylia Gogou meets with unaccompanied children held in local police stations in Lesvos.
Afia (not her real name), 17, has not seen her mum and sister since they were separated by smugglers during their trip to Europe. She has no idea where they are now. She told me that her father was killed in Afghanistan.

Children in detention at the borders of Europe

As Amnesty activists arrive to the Greek Island of Lesvos to call for an end to push-backs of refugees’ and migrants’ on their arrival to G...
Norwegian immigration officials temporarily stop policy towards unaccompanied children seeking asylum.
The policy, which has been practised since 2008, sees that unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Norway are deported to the first European country they requested asylum in.
This practice has now been suspended with all asylum applications from children being considered in Norway, regardless of whether they applied somewhere else first.

Norway child asylum deportation policy measure suspended

Norwegian immigration officials temporarily stop policy towards unaccompanied children seeking asylum. The policy, which has been practis...
Refugee advocates want the Australian Government to move an 11-year-old asylum seeker out of detention in the island state of Tasmania and into the local community.
The Pontville centre near Hobart has been re-branded as an alternative place of detention by the Immigration Department and is being used to detain almost 300 unaccompanied minors from places like Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iran and Sri Lanka.
Authorities say the 11-year-old child is being held along with two cousins but the immigration department won't say how long the children have been detained.
Felicity Ogilvie reports.
Presenter: Felicity Ogilvie
Speakers: Professor Louise Newman, psychiatrist and asylum seeker advocate; Aloysius Mowe, director of the Jesuit Refugee Service; David Bycroft, executive chairman of the the Australian Homestay Network
FELICITY OGILVIE: The youngest detainee at the centre is an 11-year-old boy from Sri Lanka.

Asylum children held at Tasmanian detention centre

Refugee advocates want the Australian Government to move an 11-year-old asylum seeker out of detention in the island state of Tasmania and...

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“Both adults and children described guards kicking, punching and slapping them or other detainees”
In February last year, guards at the Pontianak Immigration Detention Center in West Kalimantan beat Taqi Naroye, an Afghan asylum-seeker, so badly that he died.
A new Human Rights Watch report finds that this was not an isolated instance — rather, the report documents numerous instances of guards abusing detainees, including children, in immigration facilities across Indonesia. Yet Indonesia provides little or no accountability for those abuses, and has not done nearly enough to clean up its detention facilities.

Confronting Refugee Abuse in Indonesia’s Detention Centers

“Both adults and children described guards kicking, punching and slapping them or other detainees” In February last year, guards at t...
The Department of Immigration has confirmed a 16-year-old boy has ended a five-day hunger strike at the Pontville Detention Centre, near Hobart.
The department says the teenager was seen eating food last night.
The boy, who is from Afghanistan, called the ABC on Sunday raising concerns about his detention for seven months.
His case has reignited debate about the detention of children.

Teenage asylum seeker ends hunger strike at Tasmanian detention centre

The Department of Immigration has confirmed a 16-year-old boy has ended a five-day hunger strike at the Pontville Detention Centre, near Ho...
A human rights organisation has released a report saying children seeking refuge in Indonesia are being locked up, abused and neglected in detention centres.
Human Rights Watch says Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard should speak with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono about improving the treatment of asylum-seeking children so they're less likely to make the dangerous boat journey to Australia.

Children refugees abused in Indonesian detention centres: report

A human rights organisation has released a report saying children seeking refuge in Indonesia are being locked up, abused and neglected in ...
Manus Island detention centre
Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea Photograph: SUPPLIED/PR IMAGE
The government has transferred a significant number of children and families, as well as some adult males, from detention facilities at Manus Island in a move understood to affect the majority of family members on the facility.
Guardian Australia has learned that the transfer involves 70 detainees, including around 40 family members to Christmas Island.

Government transports children from detention on Manus Island

Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea Photograph: SUPPLIED/PR IMAGE The government has transferred a significant number o...

Israel's Interior Ministry on Monday released nine Eritrean women and 10 children, ranging from 18 months to 7-years-old, who had been held at Saharonim Detention Center in the south of the country for the last 8-12 months under the Prevention of Infiltration Law.
The Interior Ministry’s Population, Immigration and Border Authority approved the release after the Be’er Sheva District Court, sitting as the Administrative Affairs Court, ordered that another detained mother and her two daughters be freed.

Israel releases 19 African women and children 'infiltrators' from detention center

Israel's Interior Ministry on Monday released nine Eritrean women and 10 children, ranging from 18 months to 7-years-old, who had been...

Asylum seekers hoping to reach Australia, wait in a police station in Surabaya , East Java province July 29, 2012.


The Australian government has decided to send children seeking asylum to a remote outback detention camp.  The move to incarcerate children and their families has been condemned by health professionals and refugee groups.

A steady flow of asylum seekers arriving by boat has caused overcrowding in Australia’s immigration detention network. To ease pressure on the system, the Labor government says unaccompanied minors and families with children will be detained at the Curtin immigration center, about 40 kilometers from the West Australian port of Derby.

Australia to Send Children Asylum Seekers to Remote Detention Camp

The Australian government has decided to send children seeking asylum to a remote outback detention camp.  The move to incarcerate chil...

“Three interrogators questioned me for three hours. I was handcuffed. They beat me, slapped me, kicked me, boxed me, accused me of throwing stones; played a video of a demonstration. I denied I was there. So again, they beat me up,” recounts Zein Abu-Mariya, 17, seated on a sofa next to dad.
“They pressured my son to confess,” Hisham chimes in. “‘If you don’t sign, you’ll be treated like an animal,’ they threatened.” Zein acquiesces.

Israel’s Ill-Treatment of Detained Palestinian Children ‘Widespread’

“Three interrogators questioned me for three hours. I was handcuffed. They beat me, slapped me, kicked me, boxed me, accused me of throwin...

Children are set to return to a notorious Australian immigration detention centre north of Perth, under a plan being considered by Australia's immigration department.

No decision has been made and it is not known why the proposal is necessary but the department is exploring ways of housing asylum seeker families in a fenced-off section at the Curtin centre.
Mental health specialists say they are shocked by plans, although residents in the nearby town of Derby say the families will be looked after.

Health experts alarmed by Aust detention plans for asylum children

Children are set to return to a notorious Australian immigration detention centre north of Perth, under a plan being considered by Austra...

 Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) welcomes the introduction of S.744, particularly the way this new Senate bill embodies bipartisan agreement on basic improvements that LIRS has long championed for welcoming newcomers to the United States.

S.744 Offers Historic and Bipartisan Progress on Immigration Reform

 Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) welcomes the introduction of S.744, particularly the way this new Senate bill embodies bi...

“They gave me a room and... they did everything that my family did for me basically and... they brought me to their daughter's wedding so they said the family has to go to awedding so you're part of our family so you have to come with us... so basically, you know, they count me as their family so I felt like you know I'm part of this family... I will never forget, never.”

Report into foster care and supported lodgings for separated asylum seeking young people in Ireland

“They gave me a room and... they did everything that my family did for me basically and... they brought me to their daughter's  weddin...

A significant number of foreign youngsters placed with foster families in Ireland have had a bad experience.
When 21 children were interviewed for a report by Barnardos and the Health Service Executive (HSE), researchers noted claims that some were underfed, physically abused and screamed at by some carers.
The study revealed that at least a third of asylum seeking children separated from their family subsequently experienced a placement breakdown while in a foster home.
Mary Kenny, manager of the HSE's national office for unaccompanied minors, said a general lack of foster carers meant it was harder to match children to suitable families.

'Bad experience' with foster care

A significant number of foreign youngsters placed with foster families in Ireland have had a bad experience. When 21 children were inter...


illegal immigrantsThousands of immigrant children in Greece may be living on the streets or in places unknown, with only 397 being recorded staying in shelters, according to Giorgos Moschos, the Ombudsman for Children’s Rights in Greece.
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, Moschos described what difficulties unaccompanied children from foreign countries face in Greece.

No Account Of Immigrant Kids In Greece

Thousands of immigrant children in Greece may be living on the streets or in places unknown, with only 397 being recorded staying in shel...
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