Captured Childhood: A new model to ensure the rights and liberty of refugee, asylum-seeker and irregular migrant children

The report Captured Childhood is based on interviews with 70 children in 11 countries and draws on international law to ask for an end to child detention. A model to prevent child detention is described and builds on good practices identified in research done by the International Detention Coalition. Detention, even for a very short  time, can cause long-lasting damage and is unnecessary in the case of children and families.