Number of children in detention facilities reduced by 90 per cent in Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia – UNICEF
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 February, 2020 – Over the last twenty years, the number of children placed in detention facilities in Eastern and Central Europe and Central Asia annually has gone down from 45,000 to 5,000 marking a 90 per cent reduction, said UNICEF today, ahead of the Children's Access to Justice in Europe and Central Asia…