Alternatives to Child Detention Peer Learning Platform

Advancing humane, practical alternatives to child detention in the Indo-Pacific

The Alternatives to Child Detention Peer Learning Platform brings decision-makers together to improve humanitarian settlement for children across the Indo-Pacific region.

The Alternatives to Child Detention Peer Learning Platform is an informal regional grouping of policy and implementing agencies within the governments of Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Thailand, as well as civil society and international organisations focused on advancing practical progress towards alternatives to detention in the region.

The platform is convened by the Centre for Policy Development, as part of the Secretariat of the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration (ADFM), as well as with colleagues at the International Detention Coalition (IDC).

The platform was first proposed at the seventh meeting of the ADFM in Bangkok in November 2018. Participants identified a regional grouping on this issue as beneficial to progress towards alternatives to detention in the region.

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CPD was pleased to convene the seventh meeting of the Regional Peer-Learning Platform on Alternatives to Child Immigration Detention in person on 28-29 February 2024 in Indonesia.
The Sixth Alternatives to Child Detention Peer Learning Platform Roundtable discussed latest developments and positive practice relating to migration policies and alternatives to detention (ATD) for children in the context

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In 2023, one in eight Rohingya refugees who undertook the perilous journey across the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal was reported to have died or gone missing. This makes it possibly the most dangerous refugee journey in the world.
ASEAN is often seen as hesitant to tackle sensitive issues like refugees and forced migration, particularly given Myanmar’s membership in the 10-country bloc.
The growing weakness of Myanmar’s military junta has created opportunities for international actors to bring about lasting stability, according to a new report, despite global responses to the civil war being ineffective so far.
There are currently hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of refugees in Southeast Asia. Yet, we and many countries in the region do not have a comprehensive refugee rights and protections framework.
The Secretariat of the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration (ADFM) welcomes the leadership and cooperation shown by the Bali Process Co-Chairs in their decision at the 8th Bali Process Ministerial Meeting in Adelaide to trigger the Bali Process Consultation Mechanism. 
CEO of the Centre for Policy Development Andrew Hudson, who heads an advisory panel to the Bali Process, told the ABC that Bali Process nations had to take rapid action to tackle the crisis.

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