Topic: #IOM

Refugee Rights Protest at Broadmeadows, Melbourne

More children are having to migrate because of climate change: Here are 9 principles the UN proposes for protecting them

In May 2002, Kofi Annan, the late Secretary-General of the United Nations, presided over the first General Assembly special session on children, insisting that the UN discuss the ‘future we’re preparing with them, not for...Read more

20-09-2022|Comment|author: World Economic Forum

More ‘safe spaces’ on the way for migrant children and families in Colombian cities

Migrant and refugee children in three Colombian cities will soon be able to access ‘safe spaces’ thanks to work led and now expanded by the Bernard van Leer Foundation.Read more

07-09-2022|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

Unaccompanied children board a plane in Athens on their way to shelters in Germany last weekend. Photograph: Dimitris Lampropoulos/NurPhoto/PA Images

Europe’s cities offer refuge to child migrants

Ten cities in Europe have added their weight to growing calls for more countries to take in unaccompanied migrant children from Greece’s islands and Turkish border.Read more

29-04-2020|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

Luxembourg welcomes latest wave of unaccompanied child migrants

UN agencies say the latest relocation of a group of unaccompanied child migrants from Greece to Luxembourg is a demonstration of ‘humane and concrete’ European solidarity. Twelve children in all had been living for several months...Read more

20-04-2020|Comment|author: Simon Weedy