Kinderen op de vlucht

Kinderen kunnen verontrustende gebeurtenissen ervaren of hier getuige van zijn. Ook kunnen ze gescheiden raken van hun familie of de banden met hun familie of andere sociale netwerken verliezen. Tijdens noodsituaties en op de vlucht worden met name meisjes geconfronteerd met gender gerelateerde risico’s.

Veerkrachtig

Kinderen zijn veerkrachtig. Ze putten kracht uit families en vinden vreugde in vriendschappen. Door op school te leren, te sporten en de creatieve ruimte te hebben om hun talenten te ontwikkelen en deze te leren gebruiken, kunnen kinderen waardevolle leden van een gemeenschap zijn. We moeten met kinderen samenwerken en hen in staat stellen om te pleiten voor hun rechten en hun bescherming.

Kinderrechten

Kinderrechten zijn verankerd in het internationale recht, net als in het VN-Verdrag inzake de rechten van het kind. Ze vormen de kern van het beschermingsmandaat van UNHCR. Gezien het hoge aantal kinderen onder ontheemde bevolkingsgroepen en het feit dat meisjes en jongens unieke beschermingsrisico’s lopen, is het beantwoorden van hun specifieke behoeften een topprioriteit voor UNHCR.

Meer informatie

Voor meer informatie over hoe UNHCR kinderen op de vlucht beschermt, zie:

 

A Framework for the Protection of Children

Vluchtelingen

vluchtelingen

Staatlozen

A man collects rubbish at San Pedro de Macoris municipal dump. ; Tens of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent were deprived of their Dominican nationality following a 2013 ruling by the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic. UNHCR has appealed to the Dominican government to ensure that these people are not deported and is committed to working with the Dominican authorities to find a solution for them that guarantees protection of their human rights.

Ontheemden

An Internally Displaced girl pumps water near her family's mud house in Minarets informal settlement in the center of Herat city. Families in this urban settlement fled their homes around the year 2000 for security reasons. ; Families settled in 2000, the provincial governor at the time gave permission to settle here but no formal documents were given. Recently the IDP's have been facing eviction threats.

Repatrianten

Asielzoekers

Mother with her son and daughter, from Iran seeking asylum in Austria, in a temporary family accommodation at Asfinag. The Asfinag centre is on the former site of a roadworks company, on the outskirts of Salzburg, a short distance from the border with Germany. Refugees and migrants arrive here directly by bus from the Slovenian border, brought by the Austrian authorities, and most will move on to Germany, and are accommodated in heated tents with camp beds and blankets. For those seeking asylum there are more permanent structures, with family groups separated from single males. Food is provided by volunteers three times a day. ; More than 643,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean sea this year, including 502,500 in Greece only. Many of the refugees and migrants are desperate to move quickly onwards to Western Europe, fearing that borders ahead of them will close. Although reception capacities have been stepped up the rising numbers has put the  Austrian reception system under strain. Many newcomers as well as transiting refugees and migrants are temporarily accommodated in sports- and music halls, former office buildings etc., with those wishing to stay waiting sometimes for weeks to get proper accommodation. With the winter approaching, aid has also been stepped up at the borders. At all border crossings where refugees are arriving or leaving – currently from Slovenia to Austria and from Austria to Germany – large heated tents which can hold up to a few thousand persons have been put up and NGOs, volunteers and authorities are providing basic services.

Kinderen op de vlucht