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 they don’t met one of the criteria,’ legal advisor Martin Vegter said. ‘This is very worrying.’ The main reason cases are being rejected is that their families were out of view for national government authorities, such as the immigration service or refugee settlement agency, for at least three months. The IND said in February that it would review appeals by some 700 refugee children facing deportation by the end of the year, after the four coalition parties agreed to reassess the cases to head of a cabinet crisis.

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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 …

Kids still at risk of deportation, despite extended children's pardon
3 years, 6 months ago

Kids still at risk of deportation, despite extended children's pardon

NL Times  

Over a hundred child asylum seekers who have been living in the Netherlands for five or more years are still litigating against the rejection of their residency permits, despite the Dutch government extending the children's pardon in 2019. In 2019, after a great deal of political unrest and wrangling, the Dutch government decided to extend the 2013 children's pardon for …

Take in older Lesbos refugee children too, Unicef official urges the Netherlands
4 years, 3 months ago

Take in older Lesbos refugee children too, Unicef official urges the Netherlands

Dutch News  

Children’s rights organisation Unicef has urged the Netherlands to take in youngsters who are older than 14 from the Greek island of Lesbos, where a massive refugee camp was destroyed by fire. The Netherlands has agreed to take in 100 people from the camp – 50 children under the age of 14 and 50 other ‘vulnerable’ people. Europe has to …

Take in older Lesbos refugee children too, Unicef official urges the Netherlands
4 years, 3 months ago

Take in older Lesbos refugee children too, Unicef official urges the Netherlands

Dutch News  

Children’s rights organisation Unicef has urged the Netherlands to take in youngsters who are older than 14 from the Greek island of Lesbos, where a massive refugee camp was destroyed by fire. The Netherlands has agreed to take in 100 people from the camp – 50 children under the age of 14 and 50 other ‘vulnerable’ people. Europe has to …

Local CDA parties urge rethink on child refugees in Greek camps
4 years, 7 months ago

Local CDA parties urge rethink on child refugees in Greek camps

Dutch News  

Leaders from some 40 local Christian Democrat parties have called on the national party to change its position on bringing unaccompanied child refugees currently living on Greek islands to the Netherlands. The Netherlands has refused to take in any of the children, despite repeated appeals, and the willingness of 43 separate local authorities to house them. ‘If anything does not …

Local CDA parties urge rethink on child refugees in Greek camps
4 years, 7 months ago

Local CDA parties urge rethink on child refugees in Greek camps

Dutch News  

Leaders from some 40 local Christian Democrat parties have called on the national party to change its position on bringing unaccompanied child refugees currently living on Greek islands to the Netherlands. The Netherlands has refused to take in any of the children, despite repeated appeals, and the willingness of 43 separate local authorities to house them. ‘If anything does not …

New appeal to Dutch to take in child refugees from Greek camps
4 years, 8 months ago

New appeal to Dutch to take in child refugees from Greek camps

Dutch News  

Over 100 politicians, celebrities and local authorities have urged the Dutch government to take in some of the 2,500 children who are living in squalid refugee camps on Greek islands without parents or guardians. They have signed a page-sized advert in the NRC and NRC Next newspapers calling on the government to take urgent action. ‘The Netherlands should show solidarity …

New appeal to Dutch to take in child refugees from Greek camps
4 years, 8 months ago

New appeal to Dutch to take in child refugees from Greek camps

Dutch News  

Over 100 politicians, celebrities and local authorities have urged the Dutch government to take in some of the 2,500 children who are living in squalid refugee camps on Greek islands without parents or guardians. They have signed a page-sized advert in the NRC and NRC Next newspapers calling on the government to take urgent action. ‘The Netherlands should show solidarity …

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 …

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 …

Minister again says no to 'ad hoc' Greece child refugee plea
4 years, 9 months ago

Minister again says no to 'ad hoc' Greece child refugee plea

Dutch News  

The government has again confirmed that it will not bring refugee children currently living in Greek camps to the Netherlands, despite calls for action by aid groups. ‘We do not support ad hoc solutions,’ junior justice minister Ankie Broekers-Knol told MPs on Wednesday. Leiden, Amsterdam and The Hague are among the cities which have said they are prepared to make …

Minister again says no to 'ad hoc' Greece child refugee plea
4 years, 9 months ago

Minister again says no to 'ad hoc' Greece child refugee plea

Dutch News  

The government has again confirmed that it will not bring refugee children currently living in Greek camps to the Netherlands, despite calls for action by aid groups. ‘We do not support ad hoc solutions,’ junior justice minister Ankie Broekers-Knol told MPs on Wednesday. Leiden, Amsterdam and The Hague are among the cities which have said they are prepared to make …

The Netherlands will not bring in refugee children from Greece: PM
4 years, 10 months ago

The Netherlands will not bring in refugee children from Greece: PM

Dutch News  

The Dutch government has no plans to bring refugee children currently living in Greek camps to the Netherlands, despite calls for action by aid groups. Dutch refugee groups have called on local authorities to ‘show leadership and generosity’ by bringing 500 refugee children in Greece without their parents to the Netherlands because they are currently living in terrible conditions. ‘We …

The Netherlands will not bring in refugee children from Greece: PM
4 years, 10 months ago

The Netherlands will not bring in refugee children from Greece: PM

Dutch News  

The Dutch government has no plans to bring refugee children currently living in Greek camps to the Netherlands, despite calls for action by aid groups. Dutch refugee groups have called on local authorities to ‘show leadership and generosity’ by bringing 500 refugee children in Greece without their parents to the Netherlands because they are currently living in terrible conditions. ‘We …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Asylum kids to know whether they can stay in NL by end of year
5 years, 10 months ago

Asylum kids to know whether they can stay in NL by end of year

NL Times  

All 700 child asylum seekers who may be eligible for the children's pardon, will have clarity about their future in the Netherlands by the end of the year. Dutch immigration and naturalization service IND aims to complete its re-evaluation of these children's asylum applications before year's end, RTL NIeuws reports. The Children’s Pardon applies to the children of asylum seekers …

IND will review all child refugee amnesty cases by end 2019
5 years, 10 months ago

IND will review all child refugee amnesty cases by end 2019

Dutch News  

The immigration service IND said on Monday it will try to have reviewed all the appeals by some 700 refugee children facing deportation by the end of the year. Officials have said they expect most of the children and their family members will now be allowed to stay, taking the total to around 1,300 people ‘As soon as a decision …

IND will review all child refugee amnesty cases by end 2019
5 years, 10 months ago

IND will review all child refugee amnesty cases by end 2019

Dutch News  

The immigration service IND said on Monday it will try to have reviewed all the appeals by some 700 refugee children facing deportation by the end of the year. Officials have said they expect most of the children and their family members will now be allowed to stay, taking the total to around 1,300 people ‘As soon as a decision …

Child migrants are being used as a bargaining chip: Dutch opposition
5 years, 11 months ago

Child migrants are being used as a bargaining chip: Dutch opposition

NL Times  

While the majority of the opposition parties in parliament is pleased with the expansion of the children's pardon, the government parties still faced strong criticism during a parliamentary debate on the matter on Wednesday. The coalition parties agreed to reassess the cases of around 700 child asylum seekers who were not given refugee status, but have become rooted in the …

Coalition reaches deal on child refugees, agrees to abolish amnesty
5 years, 11 months ago

Coalition reaches deal on child refugees, agrees to abolish amnesty

Dutch News  

The four coalition parties have reached agreement on giving residency rights to some 630 well-rooted child refugees and will abolish the amnesty after their cases have been solved. GroenLinks MP Bram van Oijk described the deal as ‘miserly horse trading.’ Questions Defence for Children, which campaigns for child rights, welcomed the new agreement but said many questions remain unanswered. ‘But …

Cabinet tensions rise ahead of key debate on child refugee amnesty
5 years, 11 months ago

Cabinet tensions rise ahead of key debate on child refugee amnesty

Dutch News  

The four coalition parties have still not found a solution for the child refugee amnesty crisis, which is threatening to cause a serious division in the coalition. Parliament will debate the amnesty for well-rooted child refugees on Wednesday morning, and MPs from three of the four coalition parties have said they support a more lenient system. ‘But in the interests …

Cabinet tensions rise ahead of key debate on child refugee amnesty
5 years, 11 months ago

Cabinet tensions rise ahead of key debate on child refugee amnesty

Dutch News  

The four coalition parties have still not found a solution for the child refugee amnesty crisis, which is threatening to cause a serious division in the coalition. Parliament will debate the amnesty for well-rooted child refugees on Wednesday morning, and MPs from three of the four coalition parties have said they support a more lenient system. ‘But in the interests …

Coalition split as CDA, D66, ChristenUnie call for change to child refugee amnesty
5 years, 11 months ago

Coalition split as CDA, D66, ChristenUnie call for change to child refugee amnesty

Dutch News  

Three of the four Dutch coalition parties are now in favour of changes to the amnesty for well-rooted child refugees, saying the current situation is ‘untenable’. pic.twitter.com/CQLCGH4IvP — Gert-Jan Segers January 19, 2019 ‘We recognise that the situation is not sustainable,’ CDA parliamentarian Madeleine van Toorenburg told Radio 1 news. The coalition parties want junior immigration minister Mark Harbers to …

Coalition split as CDA, D66, ChristenUnie call for change to child refugee amnesty
5 years, 11 months ago

Coalition split as CDA, D66, ChristenUnie call for change to child refugee amnesty

Dutch News  

Three of the four Dutch coalition parties are now in favour of changes to the amnesty for well-rooted child refugees, saying the current situation is ‘untenable’. pic.twitter.com/CQLCGH4IvP — Gert-Jan Segers January 19, 2019 ‘We recognise that the situation is not sustainable,’ CDA parliamentarian Madeleine van Toorenburg told Radio 1 news. The coalition parties want junior immigration minister Mark Harbers to …

Deporting well-rooted refugee children is irresponsible: professors
6 years, 1 month ago

Deporting well-rooted refugee children is irresponsible: professors

Dutch News  

Deporting children who have lived in the Netherlands for more than five years is both irresponsible and extremely damaging, experts in child medicine, neurology and psychiatry say in a new paper. The paper, written by three university professors and signed by a further 35, was written in response to the planned deportation of Armenian children Lili and Howick, who were …

Deporting settled children irresponsible, expert says
6 years, 1 month ago

Deporting settled children irresponsible, expert says

NL Times  

A number of Dutch scientists are concerned about the well-being of children who are deported from the Netherlands after living here for years. The deportation of these children can have major consequences for their brain development and is therefore irresponsible, Erik Scherder, professor of clinical neuropsychology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, said in a report written with two lecturers …

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