On February 16, 2015, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released a report entitled “Children’s Rights in Return Policy and Practice in Europe.” The report addresses the challenges presented by the thousands of unaccompanied children who enter the European Union each year seeking asylum. To ensure that the Union meets its international obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Europe has developed various instruments in an effort to facilitate the return of children to states such as Afghanistan, from which a significant percentage of unaccompanied children come. UNICEF, however, remains “concerned that Government efforts to scale up returns of unaccompanied and separated children may lead to protection gaps for these children and give insufficient consideration to their rights and best interests.”