Promising practices and opportunities

Towards a continuum of rights, protection and care for refugee and migrant children moving in the MENA region.

Mapping the situation of child immigration detention and identifying promising child-sensitive alternatives across the MENA region

The detention of child refugees and migrants based on their migration status is a critical protection issue globally and in the MENA region. While the issue of child immigration detention has been publicly documented within the context of rights violations in several regional country contexts, comprehensive overview of existing practices, as well as current or potential child-specific solutions in the MENA region, is limited.

To address this knowledge gap, this report set out the findings of a mapping outlining the current situation of child immigration detention, as well as promising child-sensitive non-custodial solutions and ATD, across eight countries in the MENA region: Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan.