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Displaced, uprooted and refugee children: Back from the margins
Partnership Report
14 Dec 2004
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| Keywords: | All "Child Rights" reports |
One in 50 of the world's people is now a refugee, a migrant, an asylum seeker or a displaced person. As many as 25 million children have been uprooted or forced to flee from their homes - either to another part of their own country or across an international border.
This new report from World Vision highlights the particular threats facing uprooted children, including separation from family; trafficking or smuggling; military recruitment; violence, sexual abuse and exploitative labour. Despite the 1951 Refugee Convention, and its 1967 Protocol, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and provisions such as the UN Guidelines for Separated Children, many of these children remain at risk.
The report calls for programmes and policies that address the special protection needs of displaced, uprooted and refugee children. It examines critical issues such as: birth registration and identity documentation; the right to education; the right to seek asylum; resettlement and third-country agreements; and the controversial use of detention to supervise separated children. It calls for better implementation of existing laws protecting uprooted children, and increased resources for developing countries that are responding to mass influxes or displacements of people, within a broader approach that seeks to prevent displacement.
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