Dublin IV: Violating Unaccompanied Minor’s Best Interests in the Allocation of Responsibility The proposed Dublin IV Regulation contradicts the Court’s case law on Member State responsibility for asylum claims of unaccompanied minors and fails to properly protect the child’s best interests. Lisa van Zelm • May 22, 2018
‘Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?’: fingerprinting migrant children under the Eurodac Regulation Under the recast EURODAC Regulation it is proposed to lower the minimum age of data subjects from to 14 to 6 years of age. This raises issues of compatibility with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Merve Kaya • May 08, 2018
Evolving capacities of children: teenagers lead anti-gun law protests in America Teenagers who survived a high school shooting in Florida have sparked a national movement and changed the debate on gun law in America. March for Our Lives remind us how children’s capacities are often underestimated or overlooked. Sheila Varadan • May 07, 2018
Traffic jams and smoking bans When we compare the latest Dutch measures to deal with traffic jams and smoking, we see that we are actually facilitating the rise of traffic pollution while tightening the smoking bans. This shows that we are still not truly environmentally aware. Wim Bonis • May 02, 2018 • 1 comment
Unaccompanied children becoming young adults and the right to family reunion The CJEU held in A.S. that family reunification of the parents of an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child should be allowed if the applicant was a minor when the asylum application was lodged. This affects the family reunification policies of Member States. Mark Klaassen • April 24, 2018 • 1 comment
Raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility and the importance of proper youth care The Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles conducted a study on the minimum age of criminal responsibility. As a result the Council recommended raising the minimum age to at least 14 years and improving youth care. Ton Liefaard and Maria Lourijsen • March 21, 2018 • 1 comment
The Committee on the Rights of the Child on Female Genital Mutilation and Non-Refoulement In its first ruling, the Committee on the rights of the Child holds that the deportation of a Somali mother and her baby daughter fearing to undergo FGM would breach Denmark’s obligation to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence. Mark Klaassen and Peter Rodrigues • March 20, 2018
Money money money… in a rich man’s world There was widespread disgust about the proposed salary increase of one million Euros for the Dutch ING chairman. The proposal was withdrawn following public pressure. But it has confirmed that the bankers are still out of touch with reality. Wim Bonis • March 15, 2018
An exploration into uncharted legal territory Capra and Mattei argue that the legal world still wrongly bases its core ideas, such as ‘private property’, on mechanistic science dating from the 16th century. They think it badly needs to update them to include the findings of current holistic science. Wim Bonis • February 07, 2018
