Child-Friendly Judgments in Belgian Asylum Appeals

In the post, I engage with the pioneering work of some Belgian asylum judges to include child-friendly language in eight of their judgments. Indeed, children and young people have a human right to understand legal decisions that affect them. This is true for all judgments and court rulings, but has a particular relevance for decisions in which the child’s views and opinions have not been followed. However, ensuring appellate asylum judgments are understandable for children seeking international protection is particularly challenging. My ongoing ethnographic fieldwork at the Belgian Council for... Mehr ...