On 10-11 April, the GDP’s Mariette Grange attended an expert meeting in Vienna, organised by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, to discuss methods and approaches for carrying out the UN Global Study on Children in Detention. This study, which was commissioned by the UN Secretary-General, aims to assess the extent to which children are placed in detention worldwide, to document good practices, and to provide recommendations for law, policy, and practice to safeguard the rights of children concerned and to significantly reduce the number of children deprived of liberty worldwide. The GDP has been active in providing the Global Study team with models for developing online data development tools and advising on issues specifically related to the immigration detention of children.
