Is Luxembourg violating children’s rights? As the United Nations are assessing this question, they urged Luxembourg to suspend the deportation of a Syrian family. Luxembourg planned to deport the family to Greece where most family members had received refugee status. One child, however, was born after the family arrived in Luxembourg and another one has cancer. According to a complaint made to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the children’s medical needs can't be met in Greece. Luxembourg disagrees.

The UN Committee, responsible for overseeing the application of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the member countries, will decide on the case next year. Several other cases involving children’s rights violations are also pending.

Switzerland tops the UN body's list, with more than a dozen complaints made against it between January and July 2023. Last year, a ruling against France sparked outcry among French human rights groups; France had denied accommodation to a minor from Pakistan who lived on the streets for several months. Although the UN Committee ruled that France must comply with the treaty and improve its child protection system, France let the deadlines pass without making substantial changes and faced no consequences.