The West Africa Network for the protection of children focuses on ensuring a continuum of services are delivered across the region within and eight-step procedure, ranging from the identification of a vulnerable child and provision of emergency care to their successful social re-integreation.
In 2014, Morocco adopted the National Immigration and Asylum Strategy. It is in this context that the new Hijra wa Himaya project, co-funded by the European Union and UNICEF, promotes the rights of migrant children in Morocco.
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The number of children traveling alone across borders has been increasing since 2010. It accounts for 10% of all migrants.
Camp Konik was the largest refugee settlement in Montenegro with a total of 228 displaced/internally displaced famility (some 950 persons). The camp was constructed in 1999 to host refugees that fled from Kosovo.
The Catholic Parish of San Gerlando in Lampedusa has discovered an important key to moving beyond the emergency towards durable solutions.
The project Nascer Cidadão (To be born a citizen) allows every new born to be automatically and immediately registered in the hospitals and public maternities. This prevents parents from being forced into bureaucracy and helps to detect any kind of vulnerabilites and special needs of certain communities, parents and their children
South Africa has come up with Special Permits for undocumented Zimbabweans and Lesotho nationals to regularise their stay. This progressive measure is aimed at recognising the specific vulnerabilities that migrants find themselves in.
This Handbook is a tool to accompany training on the operationalization of the ‘Guidelines: Protection Assistance for Vulnerable Migrants in Zambia’. The Handbook will be used during training of first line officials, to help them understand the needs of vulnerable migrants and to assist them in becoming conversant with international and national standards to be upheld in meeting the needs of such migrants.
#rumoursaboutgermany – a new Federal Foreign Office website aims to get the facts out to migrants, making them less susceptible to misinformation spread by human traffickers.
Thai authorities have enacted legislation to assist migrant sea-fishers, who are amongst the most vulnerable workers, by fighting illegal and unregulated fishing and labour abuses.
Through the European Agenda on Migration, the EU aims to provide its Member States with tools to build up a coherent and comprehensive approach to reap the benefits and address the challenges deriving from migration, in the medium as well as long term.The European Commission's agenda on migration sets out a European response, combining internal and external policies, making best use of EU agencies and tools, and involving all actors.