European Migrant Children - Final Recommendations
- Document number
- 2766
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- European Migrant Children - Final Recommendations
- Author/publisher
- Terre des hommes, Save The Children In Albania, Nobody's Children Foundation, ECPAT Netherlands, Neglected Children Society
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Meeting Documentation/Conference Reports,
- Keywords
- Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography,
- Summary
- On the 26th of May 2011, the conference "European Migrant Children: What Protection" hosted by MEP Mariya Nedelcheva was organized by ECPAT Bulgaria, ECPAT the Netherlands, the Nobody's Children Foundation, Save the Children in Albania and Terre des hommes in the framework of the Mario project. The conference aimed at drawing the attention of European institutions and EU Member States to the lack of protection of migrant children who hold citizenship of one EU Member State and who are involved in street based activities in another Member State, either travelling alone or within their families. A research report was presented outlining the vulnerability of Bulgarian children in Greece to trafficking and exploitation. Drawing on these findings as well as on evidence of similar situations in other EU Member States, an open discussion took place with Members of the European Parliament, European Commission officials, Bulgarian and Greek government representatives and NGOs.
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