Global Efforts Needed to Free Detained Children

Expand Unaccompanied children line up for an evening meal at a detention facility run by the Greek police. © 2015 Kelly Lynn Lunde (New York) – A new global study on children deprived of their liberty should prompt United Nations member countries to take steps to dramatically decrease the number of children detained and confined, a group of 170 nongovernmental organizations said today. Manfred Nowak, a UN independent expert, will present the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty to the UN General Assembly in New York on October 8, 2019. He found that approximately 1.5 million children…

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