Joint press release: New European Union returns policies put children at risk

International Detention Coalition; End Immigration Detention of Children; PICUM; UNICEF; IOM; Save the Children

This press release is in response to the European Commission's Recommendation and Renewed Action Plan for EU member states to return men, women and children staying irregularly in the EU to their countries of origin or transit.

UN agencies and child rights organisations state the above Recommendation "would put children’s lives at risk and would be in violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which every EU member state has ratified."