Comment: 'PhotoVoice' in partneship with 'Dost' mentored 15 'New Londoners', refugees aged between 16 and 23 from ten counries by up and coming photographers to help them represent themselves and have a creative public voice of their experiences through photos they have taken. The stories told in photos personalise thir experiences as young people separated from their families and home.

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Comment: 'EveryOne Group', a human rights NGO has appealed to the Spanish government and Parliament to provide humanitarian protection to the Romanian Roma after having suffered persecution in Italy. EveryOne Group is asking the Spanish authorities to show an act of brotherhood and antiracism and grant humanitarian protection to the members of the Caldarar, Ciuraru, Grancea and Danila families (about 35 people in all, including several children), thus avoiding further suffering, inhumane treatment, injustice, and loss of life in Italy.

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Comment: European Governments are likely to embrace some articles of Sweden's prostitution law reported 'ISN'. Sweden criminalizes the purchasing of sex but decriminalizes the selling of sex and treats the prostitutes as victims rather than illegal immigrants. This approach has similarities with 'The CoE Convention on Action against trafficking in Human Beings'. Norway and the UK already have taken measures to reform their criminal law and therefore attacking the illicit market for sex traffickers more efficiently.

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Comment: 'Adnkronos International' quotes Save the Children saying that hundreds of unaccompanied children arriving in Italy illegally have disappeared without a trace since June. The children vanished from the Sicilian province of Agrigento where they are transferred after arriving in the island of Lampedusa. The average age of the unaccompanied minors is 15-17. They are accommodated in 20 residential homes but these homes are understaffed and staff is not qualified enough.

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Comment: 'Yorkshire Evening Post' reports that every year 2'000 children and young people are arrested and imprisoned in detention centres in Britain because their parents are asylum seekers. The children are usually seized during dawn raids with their parents and put in the centres. Although the unaccompanied minors are safe from deportation, the others are still living in fear of immigration officers coming and dragging them out of their beds, like dangerous criminals. The article reports that it happened that their parents commited suicide in prison in order to prevent their children from sending back to their homeland. Actually, the immigration officers can't deport them unless one parent or relative accompanies them.

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