This note presents the "Global Strategy - Beyond Detention 2014-2019" of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an ambitious 5-year initiative to support States to end the detention of asylum-seekers, in particular the detention of children. Set against the growing concern for the increasing use and length of detention, the Strategy has three main goals: to end the detention of child asylum-seekers altogether; to ensure that alternatives to detention are available in law and implemented in practice; and, where detention is necessary and unavoidable in an individual case, that conditions of detention meet international standards. The note comments on its potential to bring about change in domestic structures and practices. © Author(s) [2016].

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