Right to asylum for unaccompanied minors in the European Union

Publié le : 07/11/2012

 

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- Study "Right to asylum for unaccompanied minors in the European Union"

- Dissemination conference of the results of the study

1) Conference in Paris on the 17th of September 2012 : "Mineurs isolés étrangers en quête de protection: quelles perspectives en Europe?" (in french)

2) Conference in Budapest on the 30th of October : "Unaccompanied minors seeking protection: which perspectives in Europe?" (in french)

- "Call for a european asylum policy adapted to unaccompanied children"

Unaccompanied children without any legal representative in their side are present in all the 27 member States. Like adults, an important part of these youngsters fled conflicts and persecutions in their country of origin: under age recruitment, trafficking of children for prostitution, sexual exploitation, subjection to female genital mutilation, child labour...There are many good reasons for children heading to the borders, seeking for asylum and protection. The European Union is especially concerned by this question as 74 % of unaccompanied children in the world lodged their application of asylum in Europe in 2010.

♦ In order to identify the issues regarding this question, a study of comparative law entitled "Right to asylum for unaccompanied minors in the European Union" draw up for the first time a panorama of the european asylum standards for unaccompanied children. 

 

This project, which is co-funded by the European Commission through the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship program, was coordinated by France terre d’asile (France) and carried out in partnership with six non-governmental organisations (NGOs): Consiglio Italiano per i Rifugiati (Italy), Hungarian Helsinki Committee (Hungary), Institute for Rights, Equality and Diversity (Greece), International humanitarian initiative foundation (Poland), Shelter safe
house (Latvia) and Terre des Hommes (Germany).

 

Synthesis of the study :

 French version : download

 English version : download

 Versione italiana     (soon available)

 Magyar verzió    download

 Wersja polska   (dostępna wkrótce)

 Greek version     (soon available)

 Latvian version    (soon available)

 Deutsche Fassung    (bald erhältlich)

FINal report of the study :

  English version: download

♦ Two dissemination conferences of the results of the study has taken place in Paris on the 17th of September 2012 and in Budapest on the 30th of October 2012.

conference in paris on the 17th of september 2012 :

Conférence "Mineurs isolés étrangers en quête de protection: quelles perspectives en Europe?" (in french)

conference in budapest on the 30th of october 2012 :

Conference "Unaccompanied minors seeking protection: which perspectives in Europe?" (in french)

♦ call

At the occasion of the first conference releasing the results of the study, a european call is made to the NGO and associations:

"Call for a european asylum policy adapted to unaccompanied children"