Trafficking watchdog slams government over child refugee vanishings
4 years, 9 months ago

Trafficking watchdog slams government over child refugee vanishings

Dutch News  

The Dutch government must do more to stop Vietnamese children disappearing from special accommodation for refugee children without parents, Herman Bolhaar, the national rapporteur on human trafficking, said on Thursday. New research shows 97% of the children vanish from their places of safety and this confirms suspicions that many of them end up in the hands of human traffickers, Bolhaar said. The report, drawn up by the government’s human trafficking experts, said that when children disappear, the cases are not always followed up and and not registered with the authorities. Not interested Junior justice minister Anke Broekers-Knol said in a briefing to parliament following the publication of the report that a large proportion of unaccompanied minor refugees ‘are not interested in staying in the Netherlands’.

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Over 50,000 children disappeared from refugee centres, 850 in NL
8 months, 1 week ago

Over 50,000 children disappeared from refugee centres, 850 in NL

Dutch News  

Over 50,000 unaccompanied child refugees have gone missing from asylum seekers centres across Europe over the last three years, 850 of whom disappeared while in the care of the Dutch authorities, an investigation by journalism collective Lost in Europe has shown. Last year alone, at least 360 teenagers went missing from the Ter Apel refugee reception centre. “The real number …

UK govt says scores of child asylum-seekers are missing
1 year, 11 months ago

UK govt says scores of child asylum-seekers are missing

Associated Press  

LONDON — Opposition parties and children’s advocates accused the U.K. government on Tuesday of putting vulnerable young people in danger, after authorities said scores of children who arrived in Britain as asylum-seekers have disappeared. Labour Party lawmaker Peter Kyle said 76 children had vanished from a hotel in the south coast seaside town of Brighton, one of several around the …

38 of 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in a truck in 2019 were registered in NL
2 years, 1 month ago

38 of 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in a truck in 2019 were registered in NL

NL Times  

All but one of the 39 Vietnamese people who died in a refrigerated truck while being smuggled from Belgium to the United Kingdom in 2019 were registered in the Netherlands. According to Argos, the report shows that the Dutch authorities had taken fingerprints and registered 38 of the 39 people who died by suffocation while in the truck. According to …

Almost 50 unaccompanied child migrants have gone missing since arriving in UK
2 years, 6 months ago

Almost 50 unaccompanied child migrants have gone missing since arriving in UK

The Telegraph  

Nearly 50 unaccompanied child migrants have disappeared from hotel accommodation after arriving in the UK amid fears trafficking gangs are exploiting a surge in crossings. Figures show child migrants are going missing from Home Office-approved hotels at alarming rates, fuelling fears that they are being picked up and put to work by the traffickers who brought them to Britain. New …

Refugee agencies sound alarm about Ukrainian teens in NL without parents
2 years, 7 months ago

Refugee agencies sound alarm about Ukrainian teens in NL without parents

Dutch News  

At least 170 Ukrainian youngsters under the age of 18 have fled the war to the Netherlands without their parents, but many are not being registered or given a guardian, refugee group Vluchtelingenwerk and Unicef have told broadcaster NOS. ‘So we would ask everyone to be alert and make sure children are registered with the local council or child services.’ …

Refugee agencies sound alarm about Ukrainian teens in NL without parents
2 years, 7 months ago

Refugee agencies sound alarm about Ukrainian teens in NL without parents

Dutch News  

At least 170 Ukrainian youngsters under the age of 18 have fled the war to the Netherlands without their parents, but many are not being registered or given a guardian, refugee group Vluchtelingenwerk and Unicef have told broadcaster NOS. ‘So we would ask everyone to be alert and make sure children are registered with the local council or child services.’ …

Most unaccompanied child asylum seekers in NL since refugee crisis
3 years, 3 months ago

Most unaccompanied child asylum seekers in NL since refugee crisis

NL Times  

The number of children who came to the Netherlands on their own to seek asylum is at the highest level its been in five years. That is the highest number since the end of the refugee crisis in 2016, when the Netherlands sheltered 967 unaccompanied children, and almost double the 342 children of last year, AD reports based on figures …

Fewer children abducted by a parent, mothers usually the perpetrator
4 years, 3 months ago

Fewer children abducted by a parent, mothers usually the perpetrator

Dutch News  

Fewer child abduction cases have taken place this summer but some 34 children were taken out of the Netherlands by a parent despite – and in some cases thanks to – coronavirus travel restrictions. The number of abductions by parents was the lowest in the last five years, according to figures from the international child abduction centre quoted by RTL …

Trafficking fears as hundreds of Nigerian refugees, some pregnant, vanish
4 years, 7 months ago

Trafficking fears as hundreds of Nigerian refugees, some pregnant, vanish

Dutch News  

Almost 1,000 Nigerian refugees disappeared from Dutch asylum centres last year, and there are serious indications many of them have been trafficked, according to an investigation by radio programme Argos. The figures, obtained from the refugee settlement agency COA using freedom of information legislation, show pregnant women are among those who vanished, Argos said. While some are sent back to …

Trafficking fears as hundreds of Nigerian refugees, some pregnant, vanish
4 years, 7 months ago

Trafficking fears as hundreds of Nigerian refugees, some pregnant, vanish

Dutch News  

Almost 1,000 Nigerian refugees disappeared from Dutch asylum centres last year, and there are serious indications many of them have been trafficked, according to an investigation by radio programme Argos. The figures, obtained from the refugee settlement agency COA using freedom of information legislation, show pregnant women are among those who vanished, Argos said. While some are sent back to …

Trafficking watchdog slams government over child refugee vanishings
4 years, 9 months ago

Trafficking watchdog slams government over child refugee vanishings

Dutch News  

The Dutch government must do more to stop Vietnamese children disappearing from special accommodation for refugee children without parents, Herman Bolhaar, the national rapporteur on human trafficking, said on Thursday. New research shows 97% of the children vanish from their places of safety and this confirms suspicions that many of them end up in the hands of human traffickers, Bolhaar …

'Dutch government was aware Vietnamese children were being trafficked'
4 years, 10 months ago

'Dutch government was aware Vietnamese children were being trafficked'

Dutch News  

The Dutch government has known for more than five years that Vietnamese children are disappearing from specialist refugee centres, investigative journalism programme Argos said on Monday. Over the past five years, at least 60 Vietnamese children have vanished without trace from the protected housing where they lived because of fears they were at risk of being trafficked. ‘This is a …

'Dutch government was aware Vietnamese children were being trafficked'
4 years, 10 months ago

'Dutch government was aware Vietnamese children were being trafficked'

Dutch News  

The Dutch government has known for more than five years that Vietnamese children are disappearing from specialist refugee centres, investigative journalism programme Argos said on Monday. Over the past five years, at least 60 Vietnamese children have vanished without trace from the protected housing where they lived because of fears they were at risk of being trafficked. ‘This is a …

Over 2,500 kids disappeared from asylum centers in 10 years
4 years, 11 months ago

Over 2,500 kids disappeared from asylum centers in 10 years

NL Times  

Over the past decade, more than 2,500 children disappeared from asylum centers in the Netherlands, NRC reports based on figures from the Central agency for the reception of asylum seekers COA and guardianship institution Nidos. "Part of them maybe traveled to relatives elsewhere in the Netherlands or Europe, but it is also possible that children were picked up by a …

Dozens of children are rejected as child refugee amnesty runs out
5 years ago

Dozens of children are rejected as child refugee amnesty runs out

Dutch News  

Children’s right’s campaign group Defence for Children fears that dozens of refugee children who have applied to stay in the Netherlands under the 2019 amnesty are being rejected, broadcaster NOS said on Sunday. ‘We have our eye on hundreds of children who have made a request but more than half of them have been rejected, because according to the IND …

Dozens of children are rejected as child refugee amnesty runs out
5 years ago

Dozens of children are rejected as child refugee amnesty runs out

Dutch News  

Children’s right’s campaign group Defence for Children fears that dozens of refugee children who have applied to stay in the Netherlands under the 2019 amnesty are being rejected, broadcaster NOS said on Sunday. ‘We have our eye on hundreds of children who have made a request but more than half of them have been rejected, because according to the IND …

Vietnamese boy who died in British lorry had run away from Dutch refugee unit
5 years, 1 month ago

Vietnamese boy who died in British lorry had run away from Dutch refugee unit

Dutch News  

One of the young teenagers who died in a refrigerated lorry in England last month had run away from a secure unit for vulnerable refugees in the Netherlands, the AD has reported In total, 39 people, all Vietnamese, died in the lorry which was found in an industrial area in Essex. ­­ The AD reported earlier that six Vietnamese youngsters …

Vietnamese boy who died in British lorry had run away from Dutch refugee unit
5 years, 1 month ago

Vietnamese boy who died in British lorry had run away from Dutch refugee unit

Dutch News  

One of the young teenagers who died in a refrigerated lorry in England last month had run away from a secure unit for vulnerable refugees in the Netherlands, the AD has reported In total, 39 people, all Vietnamese, died in the lorry which was found in an industrial area in Essex. ­­ The AD reported earlier that six Vietnamese youngsters …

Netherlands does not have to help kids trapped in Syria: Appellate Court
5 years, 1 month ago

Netherlands does not have to help kids trapped in Syria: Appellate Court

NL Times  

The Netherlands will not have to retrieve children of Dutch citizens awaiting their fates in Syrian detention and displacement camps, the kids of Dutch women who left the Netherlands to enter conflict zones in Syria and Iraq. Attorneys for the Dutch government argued that children cannot be brought to the Netherlands on their own for fear of causing greater problems …

Netherlands bringing back two ISIS orphans from Syria: report
5 years, 7 months ago

Netherlands bringing back two ISIS orphans from Syria: report

NL Times  

Two Dutch orphans from ISIS families were transferred to a Dutch government delegation in Ain Issa in Northern Syria on Sunday, Abdulkarim Omar, who is responsible for foreign relations as a director of the Kurdish region in northern Syria, said on Twitter. "At the request of the Dutch government, the self-administration of North and East Syria handed over on June …

1,600 children missing from Dutch asylum shelters: report
5 years, 7 months ago

1,600 children missing from Dutch asylum shelters: report

NL Times  

Over 1,600 children disappeared from asylum centers in the Netherlands over the past 4.5 years, NRC reports based on figures from the central agency for the reception of asylum seekers COA and Nidos, the organization that has custody of all unaccompanied foreign minors in the Netherlands. Earlier this year the National Rapporteur on Human Trafficking Herman Bolhaar called on the …

UN envoy begs Netherlands to bring back kids from Syria, Iraq
5 years, 7 months ago

UN envoy begs Netherlands to bring back kids from Syria, Iraq

NL Times  

The Netherlands must "show grace and mercy" and bring back the children of Dutch jihadists in Iraq and Syria as quickly as possible, the special UN envoy for Children in Armed Conflicts, Virginia Gamba, said during a visit to The Hague on Thursday. According to Gamba, an Argentine security and disarmament expert, the Dutch stance on whether or not to …

Over 1,000 refugee children vanish from Dutch centres in five years
5 years, 9 months ago

Over 1,000 refugee children vanish from Dutch centres in five years

Dutch News  

MPs have called for a full investigation after it emerged over 1,000 refugee children, mostly teenagers disappeared from protected refugee centres in the Netherlands between 2013 and 2017. Over the past five years, at least 60 Vietnamese children have vanished without trace from the protected housing where they lived because of fears they were at risk of being trafficked, Argos …

Over 1,000 refugee children vanish from Dutch centres in five years
5 years, 9 months ago

Over 1,000 refugee children vanish from Dutch centres in five years

Dutch News  

MPs have called for a full investigation after it emerged over 1,000 refugee children, mostly teenagers disappeared from protected refugee centres in the Netherlands between 2013 and 2017. Over the past five years, at least 60 Vietnamese children have vanished without trace from the protected housing where they lived because of fears they were at risk of being trafficked, Argos …

Dutch kids increasingly left abroad by parents: report
5 years, 11 months ago

Dutch kids increasingly left abroad by parents: report

NL Times  

The number of Dutch children left in a foreign country against their will by their parents, increased over the past years. In 2015 the national hotline for forced marriages and abandonment LKHA received 23 reports of kids abandoned abroad. The organization estimates that between 170 and 800 children are left abroad by their parents each year. According to a study …

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