"No Life for a Child": A Roadmap to End Immigration Detention of Children and Family Separation

Produced by the International Human Rights Program in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.This report uncovers the deficient legal underpinnings and detrimental practical implications of child immigration detention in Canada, and provides recommendations for ensuring that Canada’s immigration detention regime complies with its domestic and international legal obligations. In doing so, this report builds upon years of advocacy by refugee and child rights groups in Canada that have called on the government to ensure that children’s best interests are a primary consideration in decisions affecting them, and ultimately, to end child detention and family separation