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This article in the Guardian reports that French children’s services are struggling to cope with a dramatic surge in unaccompanied refugee children who have abandoned plans to travel to the UK and now want to remain in France.
In the past three months, staff employed by the main French charity working with refugee children in Calais have had to turn away between 15 and 35 unaccompanied refugee children every day because they have no beds for them in the emergency shelter. According to the director of the charity running the child refugee centre, since July around 95% of the…
On the margins of the UN General Assembly, on 20 September 2016, the United States President Obama hosted the Leaders' Summit on Refugees, alongside co-hosts Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, Jordan, Mexico and Sweden.
The event sought to galvanize significant new global commitments to: 1) increase funding to humanitarian appeals and international organizations, 2) admit more refugees through resettlement or other legal pathways, and 3) increase refugees' self-reliance and inclusion through opportunities for education and legal work. This Joint Statement on the Leaders' Summit on…
Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) report that refugees arriving in Australia are being treated inhumanely and abusively. According to the report, “around 1,200 men, women, and children who sought refuge in Australia, were forcibly transferred to the remote Pacific island nation of Nauru suffer severe abuse, inhumane treatment, and neglect.”
The report notes that asylum seekers (some of them have been there over three years) face neglect by health workers and service providers. AI and HRW report that it appears that Australia is intentionally abusing and…
This article from Reuters discusses the complicated issue of birth registration for Syrian refugee children and shines light on the growing number of “stateless” children as the Syrian refugee crisis escalates. "If you look at the number of births that have happened ... I think we can be talking about hundreds of thousands who are potentially not registered in the region as a whole," according to Daryl Grisgraber, senior advocate for the Middle East at Refugees International. Children who are stateless or unregistered are at risk of being denied basic human rights such as education and health…
Council of Europe Secretary General Jagland sent a letter to Heads of Government of all 47 states of the Council of Europe to urge them to better ensure the safety and proper treatment of asylum-seeking and refugee children entering Europe. He also outlined a list of priority measures.
This action comes after an estimated 300,000 children arrived in Europe last year, many of whom were unaccompanied. It is estimated that one in three of the migrants and asylum seekers crossing between Greece and Turkey is a child. According to Europol, at least 10,000 children have…
The UK Government announced that it would take in refugee children who have become separated from their families in Syria and other conflicts. No figure has been specified, but the UK government will work with the United Nations to identify "exceptional cases." The plan will apply only to children still living in conflict zones and not those who have already reached Europe.
Immigration Minister James Brokenshire noted that most children are better off remaining in the region. He stated, "The vast majority are better off staying in the region so they can be reunited with surviving family…
The Independent Review Panel on UN Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Foreign Military Forces in the Central African Republic released a report detailing the United Nations' "gross institutional failure" to act on allegations that French and other peacekeepers sexually abused children in the Central African Republic, which the report claims led to even more assaults. The panel found that UN staffers failed or hesitated to pass along children's allegations to senior officials, failed to further investigate the allegations, and failed to properly vet peacekeepers. …
Side event to the 54th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission
- Date: Thursday, 2 March 2023
- Time: 8:00 a.m – 9:30 a.m EST
- Location: Danny Kaye Room UNICEF Building, 3 United Nations Plaza, New York NY 10017
Statement noting potential dangers associated with ICA in emergencies with specific reference to risk of family separation.
Jan 23, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Please join us for an interactive discussion following the January 16, 2023, workshop on Working with Children and Families in Conflict Zones. The workshop panelists presented on best practice and shared from their own experiences working in areas of national conflict. This follow-up conversation is a chance for those of us working in Haiti to talk about what was presented and how to apply it to our work, and to discuss questions specific to programming in Haiti.