• Malta: Migrant Detention Violates Rights
    Jul 18, 2012
    Malta’s automatic, indiscriminate, and blanket detention of migrants – including unaccompanied migrant children – is inhumane and unnecessary. It doesn’t deter migrants from coming to Malta and it violates international law.

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  • Malta: A mandate for reform
    Nov 19, 2012
    Malta should be proud of its recent ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a crucial tool for protecting the rights of more than one billion people with disabilities worldwide. As the Government begins to integrate the convention into its laws and policies, it should understand that the protections apply to the thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who linger in immigration detention in Malta each year.
  • Guilty of Adulthood Until Proven a Child
    Aug 13, 2012
    A typical child wants to be seen as an adult. Unfortunately, some children who seek asylum in the European Union (EU) through the tiny island nation of Malta find themselves with the opposite problem: needing to prove they are children. Children who arrive without an adult caregiver, all too often following a perilous sea journey, may find themselves detained and treated as adults until administrative proceedings show otherwise. Often detained with actual adults, these children have no access to education or other necessary services.
  • Children trapped in the EU's web
    Jul 18, 2012
    I first met Labaan, an 18-year-old Somali boy with a slight figure and a well-styled mohawk, this February, in Malta. Labaan left Somalia when he was 15, shortly after his father was killed. He travelled north by himself, taking months to make his way over land through Sudan and Libya. Eventually, he boarded a rickety boat with about 100 other migrants, and after days at sea, without much water or food, reached Malta.
  • Malta: Migrant Detention Violates Rights
    Jul 18, 2012
    Malta’s automatic, indiscriminate, and blanket detention of migrants – including unaccompanied migrant children – is inhumane and unnecessary. It doesn’t deter migrants from coming to Malta and it violates international law.