EU urged to ban child immigration detention

KABUL and asylum, the primary UN body monitoring child rights had urged EU countries to end the detention of children in the context of migration, a statement said on Thursday.
 
“EU law should not allow for child immigration detention, even as a last resort, and the reform of the Common European Asylum System is a timely opportunity to ban this practice,” said Renate Winter, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
 
EU law currently stipulates that migrant and asylum-seeking children may be placed in detention . . .