US EditionSave the Children Points to Spain and Poland for Abuse of "Arbitrators" Evidence of the Age of Migrant Minors
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Refugees at Europe's external borders experience violence, detention and violations of rights. Two reports reveal gaps in protection.
A new Save The Children report questions that medical and visual assessments at European borders, based on height, facial features or body hair, continue to be used as the main criterion for determining the age of migrants despite the wide margin of error The Gambian minor who has come to the UN after finishing in the street in Spain: “I felt alone and different from the others” Momo swam alone from the beach of La Bocana, in Morocco, to the coa…
The automatic and prolonged detention of minors, sometimes in adult centres, systematic errors in the identification of the minority and other vulnerabilities leave children without guardian or protection, according to a new report by Save The ChildrenTopics: News, ChildrenRead full article
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"The system to detect minors who migrate at our borders and, in general, to identify vulnerabilities is failing in Europe," says Jennifer Zuppiroli, migration specialist at Save The Children and co-author of the 'Border Crossing' report, which has analysed this reality in Spain, Finland, Greece, Italy and Poland. The study concludes that there is a key lack in both Spain and the other countries examined: the absence of a figure representing mino…
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