France is guilty of “serious and systematic violations” of the rights of unaccompanied foreign minors. This was the UN’s finding in October 2025. The promised improvements do not yet appear to be in sight. Earlier this year, the UN committee once again criticised France for inadequate age assessments of unaccompanied minors.
Many migrant children become homeless, are denied basic care and live in degrading conditions that violate human dignity. That was the conclusion of the 2025 report by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The investigation was carried out by eighteen independent experts and was prompted by complaints from the minors themselves. Their files show that these were not isolated errors, but a structural pattern within the French system.
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