[Elina Hammarström is Associate Legal Adviser in the International Commission of Jurists’ Europe and Central Asia Programme] In May 2024, the European Union adopted the final text of the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum (EU Pact), consisting of ten legislative texts reforming the EU migration and asylum system. As a whole, the EU Pact, which will enter into force in...
[Dr Alison Bisset is Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the University of Reading, UK] Since the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova for war crimes in March 2023, the deportation and unlawful transfer of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation has been the subject of international legal, media and...
[Fatuma Abiya is a child born in captivity following the abduction of her mother by the Lord’s Resistance Army. Now a young adult, Fatuma is a Human Rights activist, a peace practitioner and law graduate who completed law school in 2023. She is a passionate advocate concerning issues impacting women, youth and children born of war.] Background I was born in captivity to...
[Ezequiel Heffes is the Director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict. Samantha Holmes is a Researcher for Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict and the Coordinator of the Generating Respect Hub at the University of York's Center for Applied Human Rights.] Children’s insecurity worldwide is proliferated despite the existing international legal framework aimed at protecting them. More than one in...