Sentences with phrase «unaccompanied child»

Imogen has acted as sole counsel for a number of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in their successful judicial review challenges to local authorities» «age assessments» which found them to be over 18 years old.

Imogen regularly acts as sole counsel for unaccompanied child asylum seekers in their judicial review challenges of local authorities» «age assessments» which have found them to be over 18.

This includes his 2015 piece «Oracle,» which centers on protesters rallying against unaccompanied child migrants from Central America, as well as «The Indian Project: Rebuilding History,» also from 2015, that looks at how the Maine town of Skowhegan adopted an American Indian identity and name despite having no Native Americans in its midst.

They should not be returning unaccompanied child refugees (2,018 of them between 2007 and 2015) to a place they have never lived and have no family connection to.

Last night MPs voted by 294 votes to 276 to block plans to help 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees in Europe.

Ms. Mark - Viverito proudly announced that the multi-million-dollar New York City Unaccompanied Minors Initiative, started last year to handle the cases of the thousands of underage children pouring in without their parents, has successfully gotten free lawyers for some 1,600 foreign national boys and girls and won asylum for 14 of them — meeting the speaker's goal of providing legal representation to every unaccompanied child facing deportation.

When an unaccompanied child arrives in Britain, they often don't have any easy way of proving their age.

But that's exactly what the Home Office has been trying to do to unaccompanied child refugees and the consequences have been calamitous.

Dame Stephanie Shirley (84) arrived in Britain in 1939 as an unaccompanied child refugee from Nazi Europe.

The law reflected the belief that unaccompanied children (not from Mexico or Canada) likely were the victims of alien traffickers, who might seek to exploit the children as slaves or prostitutes.

There has been a tenfold increase in the number of unaccompanied children trying to enter the United States illegally since 2009.

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On Friday, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced a plan for his state to temporarily shelter up to 1,000 unaccompanied children who have recently fled to the United States as part of the ongoing border crisis.

Bethany Christian Services works in eight states to assist refugee families with services like language training and transportation, and also places unaccompanied children in foster homes.

The Dubs scheme commits the government to relocate unaccompanied children from other countries in Europe.

World Vision says it is registering 100 unaccompanied children every day at the Bidi Bidi settlement.

The discussion about young supporters was preceded by a presentation by Paul Milne, Liverpool's safeguarding and assurance manager, who outlined the challenges faced by all Premier League clubs when it comes to safeguarding children and explained why Liverpool do not allow unaccompanied children under the age of 16 to attend games.

MPs will today decide if 3,000 unaccompanied children who are currently in Europe should be resettled in the UK

An estimated 26,000 unaccompanied children came to Europe last year.

Morgan has already been a vocal opponent of a hard Brexit and has been part of a group of MPs calling for a debate in the Commons on the issue of unaccompanied children in Greece and Italy, which will take place on 23 February.

Ninety - nine unaccompanied children arrived asking for asylum from Afghanistan in the first half of this year alone.

This Bill, if enacted, wold make provision for the award of asylum - seeker status in the United Kingdom to certain unaccompanied children from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Eritrea displaced by conflict and present within the European Union.

But the Bureau's study of Afghan teenagers found that just one - in - five former unaccompanied children that apply to extend their leave are successful first time.

The most recent figures show that only a fifth of all those unaccompanied children were granted asylum, and the rate at which children receive asylum has dropped in recent years.

But six years on, although the numbers are lower than before, the government is still locking up unaccompanied children in immigration detention who it mistakenly thought were adults.

Very few unaccompanied children make it as far as Britain in their search for a safe place.

The need has grown more urgent, Ms. James and activists said, as the federal government has decided to prioritize the cases of the unaccompanied children and adults with children in what is being called a «surge docket.»

Councilman Carlos Menchaca, chair of the Immigration Committee, compared the flood of unaccompanied children into the country to Hurricane Sandy.

Public Advocate Letitia James is calling on lawyers to help represent unaccompanied children pro bono in federal immigration cases — and said she'd join them.

At 2 p.m., leaders from the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and Education for a Better America will address the policy implications of the influx of unaccompanied children into the Hempstead, NY Union Free School District, 185 Peninsula Blvd., Hempstead.

One of my biggest concerns is the hundreds of unaccompanied children who are thought to be resident in the section of the camp which is currently being demolished.

The Home Office has confirmed it is looking at plans to forcibly remove hundreds of unaccompanied children who are seeking asylum in the UK.

«From what I've read, it is these women and their children and it is these unaccompanied children,» who will be targeted, Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

Those respectable charities with research showing there are around 1,000 unaccompanied children must have just got it wrong then.

BETHPAGE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The federal government is looking at a former defense plant site in Bethpage to possibly house thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America.

Thousands of families and unaccompanied children have been coming to the U.S. in recent months, fleeing violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

«I understand that there is a humanitarian crisis with unaccompanied children at the border, but putting them in an industrial warehouse on a site near a Superfund site is not a humanitarian solution,» Israel told WCBS 880's Sophia Hall.

However, he is cool on the idea of accepting 3,000 unaccompanied children who have already made the journey to the EU — a policy touted by many of his parliamentary colleagues.

Internally Displaced Persons IIDPs) in Mogadishu face risks to their lives, safety, security and dignity and are at disproportionate risk of gross human rights abuses especially women and unaccompanied children.

In the case of unaccompanied children, education will keep them out of the street and they are less likely to be exposed to employers who might exploit them.

Unaccompanied children have been making the voyage to the United States for generations to reunite with family members or because they had lost their parents to war or famine.

Governor Pat McCrory says state officials don't have enough information about what he calls unaccompanied children.

Resources for working with special populations such as refugees, migrants, students with interrupted education, newcomer immigrants, unaccompanied children, and internationally adopted students follow below.

(The Education Department during Duncan's tenure released written guidelines reminding districts of that obligation, particularly after waves of unaccompanied children came to the country from Central America in recent years.)

It was finally agreed by the British parliament that unaccompanied children, up to the age of seventeen, would be permitted to enter the country.

More specifically, unaccompanied children refugees enjoy an additional protection pursuant to Article 10 (3)(a): their right to family reunification — by way of exemption of the regime applicable to «adults» refugees — is not left to the discretion of the Member States and submitted to the conditions set out in Article 4 (2)(a).

In particular, such an interpretation would entail that two different unaccompanied children of the same age and who have applied at the same for the refugee status, would be treated differently with regards to their right to family reunification depending on how quick or slow the national authorities would process their application (paras 55 - 56).

[2] For further information on the application of the Dublin II Regulation with respect to unaccompanied children see the Dublin Transnational Network Project comparative report The Dublin II Regulation Lives on Hold, February 2013.

Unaccompanied children form a category of particularly vulnerable persons and prompt access to an asylum procedure and the prevention of unnecessary delays in the Dublin procedure are central to their best interests (Para. 61).

This ruling means that unaccompanied children who claim asylum in a Member State can not be removed to another State pursuant to the Dublin Regulation.