International recommendation

Protection of unaccompanied minor asylum-seekers

Issue date:
Human rights body:
Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Themes:
Enforced disappearanceEquality and non-discriminationHuman traffickingImmigration detention and reception centres
Populations of concern:
Asylum seekers and refugeesChildren
Source:
CED/C/NOR/CO/1, para. 48

Recommended measures (5)

48. The Committee recommends that the State party:

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Institutions, practices and guidelines

(a) Take all necessary measures to protect young asylum-seekers, both those in reception and care centres and those who have disappeared from them, from the risks of enforced disappearance and other, related crimes, such as trafficking.

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Institutions, practices and guidelines

(b) Ensure that measures to search for disappeared persons, including the police guidelines that are currently being developed, address the risk of enforced disappearance in compliance with the Convention and in the light of the Committee’s general comment No. 1 (2023) on enforced disappearance in the context of migration.

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Institutions, practices and guidelines

(c) Pursue all efforts to strengthen the quality of care and protection of unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors aged between 15 and 18 years.

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Institutions, practices and guidelines

(d) Establish all measures necessary to prevent the disappearance of minor asylum-seekers from reception centres, including through the identification of the reasons for their disappearances and the establishment of periodic follow-up visits to and inspections of such centres.

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Institutions, practices and guidelines

(e) Take measures to ensure that protection mechanisms contemplate the situation of unaccompanied minor asylum-seekers who have disappeared from reception centres and are easily accessible to them.