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Return of Foreign Unaccompanied Minors. Policy Paper

Document number
1487
Date
2007
Title
Return of Foreign Unaccompanied Minors. Policy Paper
Author/publisher
Terre des hommes (Tdh)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Guidelines/Recommendations,
Keywords
Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography,
Summary
The protection of the rights of foreign unaccompanied children (FUM) constitutes an area of concern for Terre des hommes, as a child rights organization. While many issues arise in this context, any of them bearing its own complexity, the scope of the proposed Policy is limited to the involvement of the organization in issues related to the return, or not, of FUM in their countries of origin. The Policy will provide a set of criteria and procedures to be respected within Terre des hommes in its recommendations to the authorities regarding the durable solution for a FUM. It also aims to serve Tdh as a framing tool in its activities for assisting FUM throughout the process. The objective is to guarantee that the intervention of the organization serves the best interest of the child concerned and fully complies with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and other human rights instruments. The Policy summarizes the existing good practices and lessons learned by Tdh Delegations in South Eastern Europe, recommendations of international human rights bodies, as well as related good practices adopted by other organizations.
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