Best Interests of the Child assessments to facilitate decision-making in asylum procedures
Best Interests of the Child assessments to facilitate decision-making in asylum procedures

Author(s): Carla van Os, Elianne Zijlstra
Subject(s): Civil Law, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Family and social welfare, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: migration; child; minors; asylum procedure; decision making;
Summary/Abstract: The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) gives asylum-seeking children the right to an asylum decision that gives due weight to their best interests (UN 1989). This right follows from article 3, section 1, of the CRC: “In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.”

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