Presentation and panel discussion
Wednesday 11 November, 2 pm
Podium guests
Samira Marti
National Councillor SP
Claudio Martelli
Deputy Director SEM, Head of the Asylum Directorate
Presentation
Inés Mateos
Dieter von Blarer
Lawyer, President humanrights.ch
Andreas Räss
Head of Migration Office
and civil rights BL
Jana Häberlein - Social Scientist
and lecturer, author of studies
More about migration at terre des hommes switzerland
Switzerland puts children and young people behind bars, even though it is highly dangerous for their psyche. Minors end up in so-called administrative detention if the Confederation wants to enforce legal provisions on foreigners. Switzerland is thus violating the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The canton of Geneva wants to ban administrative detention for children with an initiative. We support this initiative and demand alternative solutions.
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Since the end of 2017, terre des hommes schweiz has been supporting a pilot project in El Salvador for young returnees who have been deported from the USA. The already worrying situation is now coming to a head. The US government's decision to lift the protection status for refugees from El Salvador has dramatic consequences for the battered country.
Andrea Zellhuber, Violence Prevention Unit
In 2016 alone, over 182,000 underage refugees from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala were registered on their way north. They are all looking for a place where they are protected from violence. Often they are exposed to similar dangers on the road as in their homeland. Their protection in the transit countries urgently needs to be improved.
Text: Lesli Gutiérrez Garduño
