Children / Minors

‘What can you do to protect children on the move’, focuses on the prevention aspects. It is aimed at organisations which try to stop children from experiencing harm as a result of exploitation or other abuse—particularly young people who move from one place to another (with or without other family members) or migrate within their own country or to another country.

Every day in the Evros region at the Greek-Turkish Border, tens of children are locked up simply because they do not hold the right documentation. Many of these children are unaccompanied minors. Immigration detention has a devastating effect on children’s physical, emotional and psychological development and must be stopped. The Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) has release a report about the Special Holding Facility for Illegal Migrants “Fylakio” in the border area.

A new report on child migration in West Africa says thousands of children are being sold, exchanged or transported out of their communities each year in violation of internationally-recognized rights of the child, and calls on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to persuade governments to better protect these children.

MIGS is pleased to announce the publication of the book “Young Migrant Women in Secondary Education: Promoting Integration and Mutual Understanding through Dialogue and Exchange”.  The book is the result of an 18-month project funded by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals of the European Commission and coordinated by the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS).  Partners to the project included  the Centre of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities (CREA) at the University of Barcelona, the Centre for Right