According to the UN Kinderhilfswerk UNICEF, around 3,500 children have died or have disappeared in the past ten years, while trying to go to Italy via the Mediterranean Sea. This corresponds to a death or missing child per day.
“Governments must protect the rights and well-being of children according to their obligations under national and international law,” said Regina de Dominicis, regional director of UNICEF for Europe and Central Asia, as well as a special coordinator for refugee and migration assistance in Europe.
“Rights accompany children”
“The rights anchored in the UN Convention on the rights of children do not end up at boundaries or coastal children accompanying their escape.”
Majority on the road without parents
According to Unicef, about seven of the ten children compete without a parent or legal guardian, which means that the majority of the children who died on this route traveled alone.
Many children experience violence
According to surveys, more than half of the children surveyed stated that they had experienced physical violence, one third was held against their will in one place.
Limitations on movement should never lead to a child – albeit during screening, in border procedures, asylum applications or returns – in a detention of deportation, says UNICEF.
Source: Krone
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