Disappearing, Departing, Running Away: A Surfeit of Children in Europe?
- Document number
- 2501
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Disappearing, Departing, Running Away: A Surfeit of Children in Europe?
- Author/publisher
- Terre des hommes (Tdh)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Violence, Human rights violation, Crime against humanity, War crime, Armed conflict, Post-conflict situation, Terrorism, Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems,
- Summary
- As soon as children experience this substitute protection - and, in the cases studied in the present report, institutional placements - they are entitled to the same quality attention and benefits as all other children in placements, from the time of their admission to the preparation and carrying out of their release. Hence, if a child disappears from an institution, the usual procedure must be instigated, regardless of the child's status or the reason for the disappearance: it incurs the liability of the institution and that of the State. The recommendations presented in this study, which are based on accurate observations and on the individual rights, safeguards and main principles of the CRC (non-discrimination, the best interests of the child, the right to life, survival and development and the right to be heard) constitute a serious approach which manages to avoid oft-criticized efforts based on mere do-goodism.
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