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End-Child-Detention: Protection of the Rights of the Refugee -/Asylum Seeker Child, Migrant Child and Unaccompanied Minor
This project is co-financed by the European Union centers, and only after long periods they are released to the said youth villages. By adopting a strengthened screening and assessment process to identify unaccompanied minors and their suitability for placement in such villages, Israel can expand the use of alternatives, and eliminate the detention period before children are directed to a youth villages. The Knesset committees scheduled a second meeting on alternatives to child detention to continue the discussion. Updates will follow.
Testimonies
In a visit held by the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants last week, Mothers who are currently imprisoned in Givon prison with their children told about their difficulties: We have been in prison a year and a half. We were arrested on July 2012, told R. from Ghana, who is in prison with her two sons, age six and two. They came into my house at 5 AM and took me and my children and they didnt stop crying. The little one was only six months old. The older one had been in an Israeli kindergarten and had to leave it because of the arrest. He misses it; he always says that he wants to go to school, that he misses his friends. There are no toys or games here for his age, he plays with the toddlers and he forgets everything he learned in kindergarten. 24 hours a day he has nothing to do here, and its been like that a year and a half. P. from Ghana has been in prison with her two year old girl for seven months:My child misses her old babysitter. Once she took her bag and told me:"let's go to her", and then she burst into tears. She also misses her kindergarten and still talks to one of the boys who were there with her like he's here. Once she came to the door and said "God! Open the door!" the prison changes the children. They cry all the time, they are nervous and stressed out. **Attached are the Action Plan summary in English, and the full version in Hebrew. For further information and media enquiries Anat Ovadia +97254-3177851 (Hotline for Refugees and Migrants) Lital Grosman +97252-3112136 (Physicians for Human Rights Israel)
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