In March 2024 – February 2026, the International Commission of Jurists European Institutions together with partners implements the two-yearlong RELEASE project (pRotEcting migrant chiLdrEn AgainSt detention through the EU Charter). The project seeks to build on the achievements and results of the recent ICJ’s CADRE Project which highlighted a need for greater support to lawyers in strengthening their ability, and that of civil society more generally, to engage in strategic litigation to end the immigration detention of children. This is because the absence of case law, regulatory standards, and public awareness may hinder practitioners from pursuing legal action against minors’ imprisonment in immigration detention.

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