Banking on mobility over a generation: follow-up to the regional study on the management of the external borders of the European Union and its impact on the human rights of migrants 2015, para. 112
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[To the European Union and its member States] In line with the best interests of the child principle, step up protections afforded to migrant children, particularly unaccompanied minors, and families with children. Aim to eradicate the detention of children completely and to respond adequately to the vulnerability of children in reception and social protection provisions. Age verification is not a justification for detention and member States should move towards a model that assumes vulnerability and responds by providing adequate protection, given the particularly damaging impact of even short periods of detention on children.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants