InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/06/03
The Italian Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI) has created new guidelines for the protection of underage migrants who arrive in Italy without family. Their goal: To help social workers and legal guardians understand the laws and procedures for unaccompanied minors and make sure their rights are respected.
The Italian Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI) has released a new set of guidelines titled The Protection of Minors Who Arrive in Italy Alone (available in Italian).
Issues addressed in the guidelines include identification and age verification, the conversion of stay permits when minors turn 18, and reception methods.
A new law passed by the Spanish parliament prohibits stripping migrants under age 18 to ascertain their age, a method that the UN has said violates the migrants' dignity. The law will come into force in June.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/03/02
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child considers Spain responsible for violating the rights of a migrant minor who was forced to undress and undergo invasive medical examinations to determine her age.
Spain violated the rights of a migrant minor after she was forced to undress and undergo medical tests to determine her age, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) says. The committee cited a report released last Thursday (February 25) by the Fundación Raíces, a Spanish NGO that followed the case of the youth from Cameroon.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/02/26
One minor migrant out of five in Spain is undocumented, according to a report by the NGO Save the Children with the Por Causa Foundation. It said there are nearly 147,000 undocumented minors in Spain, based on the most recent statistics, which are from 2019.
The number of undocumented migrants under the age of 19 in Spain in 2019 was nearly 147,000, practically equally divided between males and females, according to the report Growing Up Undocumented in Spain (in Spanish), by the Por Causa Foundation and Save the Children.
The report said the number represents one foreign minor in five registered in city registries for that age group.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/02/12
A dozen human rights associations have accused public prosecutors in Trieste, northeastern Italy, of not protecting the rights of asylum seekers. They say prosecutors failed to act when underage asylum seekers were housed in facilities for adults for months.
A group of twelve Italian associations published a statement on Tuesday, February 9, calling on local and national authorities to do more to protect the rights of underage asylum seekers in the Trieste area.
The organizations accused public prosecutor s office at the Trieste juvenile court of not acting in cases where the rights of underage migrants and refugees had been violated. In particular, they said, the authorities had failed to ensure the activation of an age assessment and the authorities had shown a differential treatment of people at the border that has no support in current law.