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Complaint on France's treatment of unaccompanied foreign minors

On 24 January 2018, the European Committee of Social Rights adopted the decision on the merits in European Committee for Home-based Priority Action for the Child and the Family (EUROCEF) v. France, Complaint n°114/2015, and transmitted it to the Committee of Ministers on 14 February 2018.

In its complaint, EUROCEF invited the Committee to find that France fails to fulfill its obligations under the European Social Charter with regard to the rights of unaccompanied foreign minors to appropriate legal, economic and social protection, in breach of Articles 7§10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 30 and 31§2 of the Charter, read alone or in conjunction with Article E, in particular due to:

- defective initial reception arrangements due to saturation of national arrangements for the provision of shelter, assessment of and guidance for unaccompanied foreign minors;

- detention of unaccompanied foreign minors in waiting areas;

- abusive age assessment;

- lack of access to education; and

- lack of access to health and social protection.

The decision will be made public once the Committee of Ministers has adopted a resolution, or at the latest four months after it was transmitted to the Committee of Ministers, i.e. on 15 June 2018.

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