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information about their rights and entitlements in Greece, including their right
to seek asylum and facilitate their access to asylum procedure.
Train asylum interviewers, including interpreters, in conducting child-friendly
interviews. Provide training to those who adjudicate asylum applications by
children about child-specific forms of persecutions.
Detention and ill-treatment of unaccompanied children
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Make a public commitment to ensure that unaccompanied migrant children
apprehended in Greece are treated in a humane and dignified manner.
Promptly investigate any allegation of ill-treatment of children by state
officials and hold perpetrators fully accountable. Take targeted and
comprehensive measures to prevent ill-treatment of migrants, including
unaccompanied children, in the custody of state agents. Put in place victim
protection mechanisms during investigations and make public statements
condemning such acts.
Stop the practice of routinely detaining children. Detention of unaccompanied
children should only be administered as a measure of last resort and for the
shortest time possible. Refrain from detaining children jointly with adults.
Ensure the separation of both boys and girls from adults in detention and the
availability of a confidential complaint mechanism in all detention and
confinement settings.
Deportation of unaccompanied children
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Suspend the issuing of deportation orders under existing procedures and halt
the deportation of unaccompanied children. Enact procedures that make
mandatory a careful and impartial assessment of the child’s best interests
before a decision is made to return a child. Children who cannot be returned
to their country of origin due to legal or other reasons should be allowed to
remain in the host country and provided with an opportunity to integrate.
Registry, data, and statistics
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Systematically register and keep track of every unaccompanied child found in
Greece. Compile and publish data on unaccompanied children in Greece with
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