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November 19, 2019

U.N. Condemns U.S. for World's Highest Rate of Children in Detention
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The United Nations has condemned the United States for having the
world's highest rate of children in detention. The U.N. experts
particularly condemned the Trump administration's policy of forcibly
separating children from their parents at the border and then detaining
children away from their parents or family members. This is Manfred
Nowak, who is leading the U.N. global study on children deprived of
liberty.

Manfred Nowak: "Of course, separating children, as was done by the Trump
administration, from their parents - and even small children - at the
Mexican-U.S. border is absolutely prohibited by the Convention on the
Rights of the Child. I would call it inhuman treatment for both the
parents and the children. And there are still quite a number of children
that are separated from their parents and where neither the children
know where their parents are nor the parents know where their children
are."



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