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January 2014, Stockholm Monika Sandvik Nylund Senior Adviser for Children, UNHCR

CONTRIBUTION OF INTERNATIONAL ACTORS TO BEST INTEREST ASSESSMENT. January 2014, Stockholm Monika Sandvik Nylund Senior Adviser for Children, UNHCR. Overview. UNHCR’s role Protection of children Trafficking Best Interests Procedure Suggestions for good practice.

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January 2014, Stockholm Monika Sandvik Nylund Senior Adviser for Children, UNHCR

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  1. CONTRIBUTION OF INTERNATIONAL ACTORS TO BEST INTEREST ASSESSMENT January 2014, Stockholm Monika SandvikNylund Senior Adviser for Children, UNHCR

  2. Overview • UNHCR’s role • Protection of children • Trafficking • Best Interests Procedure • Suggestions for good practice

  3. UNHCR and Protection of Children • Child Protection is part of UNHCR’s core mandate • Individual casework is a key feature: • RSD – children in need of international protection • Best Interest procedures for children at risk • Durable solutions • Today:

  4. Children of concern to UNHCR INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION NEEDS? • Refugee children – YES • Children seeking asylum - MAYBE • UASC – in migratory flow - MAYBE • Victims of trafficking - MAYBE

  5. UNHCR and Trafficking • Our role is two-fold: REFUGEES & DISPLACED VULNERABLE TO TRAFFICKING SOME VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING CAN BE DEFINED AS REFUGEES

  6. Major Movements of Children

  7. Movement of Children in the Horn of Africa

  8. How can we protect Refugee Children against trafficking ? • EXAMPLE: Ethiopia – Sudan – Egypt etc. KEY STRATEGIES: • Addressing Secondary Movement, Trafficking and Smuggling • Enhancing Alternative Care Arrangements • Family Reunification • Regional Coordination

  9. Children in Emergencies • Particular vulnerability to trafficking KEY STRATEGIES:- Quick identification and documentation - Support to families, education • Control: No adoption or removal of children in emergency phase • Child protection standards and procedures • ADOLESCENTS!

  10. UNHCR BID PROCESS • Work started in the 1990’s, BID guidance 2008 • 2 steps: BEST INTERESTS DETERMINATION BEST INTERESTS ASSESSMENT

  11. UNHCR BID PROCESS • A SAFEGUARD • Documents the child’s views • Child protection tool • A panel decides on BIDs

  12. BID – industrialized countries • New UNHCR/UNICEF guidance on its way • Purpose: Assist states in ensuring that the best interests of the child is a primary consideration in all actions concerning all unaccompanied and separated children who arrive in Europe.

  13. Transnational aspects • Resettlement or repatriation • Family reunification

  14. Challenges • Children at risk but not in need of international protection • Who is responsible? • Who can we refer to?

  15. Promising Practices • Key role of national Child Protection Systems: • in countries of origin • in countries of transit • in countries of destination AND Better cooperation between Social welfare, immigration and refugee authorities

  16. Promising Practices • Access to Child Friendly Asylum Procedure

  17. Promising Practices • Access to birth registration • The Best Interests Procedure

  18. THANK YOU

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