Returns at Any Cost: Spain’s Push to Repatriate Unaccompanied Children in the Absence of Safeguards

Spain’s accelerating effort to send back unaccompanied children who enter the country illegally might subject them to danger, ill-treatment and detention, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The government needs to halt repatriations until it has a process to ensure their well-being, and, as an immediate step, give them the same right to an independent lawyer that adult migrants have under Spanish law.

Document: http://hrw.org/reports/2008/spain1008/