Child Migrants in Spain and Morocco Nowhere to Turn: State Abuses of Unaccompanied Migrant Children by Spain and Morocco Report, May 2002 Español Français Arabic Spain and Morocco Abuse Child Migrants Press Release, May 7, 2002 Español Français Refugees Refugee children are among the most vulnerable children in the world. Not only do they suffer from war or other forms of persecution in their countries of origin, but many refugee children continue to suffer human rights abuses in countries of asylum. More than half of the world's refugee population are children, yet their rights and special protection needs as children are frequently neglected. Promises Broken: Refugee Children World Report 2002 Section on Children's Rights: Refugee Children In 1999, Human Rights Watch conducted an in-depth investigation into the protection of Sierra Leonean refugee children in Guinea, where children made up 65 percent of the 300,000 Sierra Leonean refugees there. Most of the children interviewed by Human Rights Watch had been in refugee camps in Guinea just over a year, with little hope of returning home in the near future. Internally displaced children within Sierra Leone were thought to suffer many of the same problems on an even larger scale. Colombia: Displaced and Discarded The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Bogotá and Cartagena Report, October 2005 HRW Focus on Human Rights: Civil War in Sierra Leone HRW Campaign Page Forgotten Children of War: Sierra Leonean Refugee Children in Guinea Report, July 1999 Sierra Leonean Refugee Children Neglected Press Release, July 29, 1999 Parties to Sierra Leone War Urged Not to Recruit Child Soldiers Press Release, May 31, 1999 Children Detained by the INS in the United States Separated and unaccompanied children are particularly vulnerable. Each year, thousands of children enter the United States unaccompanied by parents or relatives. Many are apprehended by the INS and held in detention--in some cases they were housed with juvenile offenders and subjected to a rigid and punitive environment--sometimes for months at a time. Investigating detention conditions in Arizona, California and Pennsylvania, Human Rights Watch has found that their rights are often violated — in breach of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. statutory provisions, INS regulations, the terms of court orders binding on the U.S., and international law. Detained and Deprived of Rights: Children in INS Custody HRW Campaign Page Detained and Deprived of Rights: Children in the Custody of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Report, December 1998 Slipping Through The Cracks: Unaccompanied Children Detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Report, April 1997 The Other Immigrant Children Editorial by Jo Becker Related HRW reports | |  | |
 Easy Targets: Violence Against Children Worldwide 
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