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"Madam President, the number of what we call unaccompanied minors reached a record of more than 95 000 last year. Those children – and this is the proper word to use, because we are dealing here with human beings, not legal entities – are at serious risk of abuse, trafficking and exploitation. They experience traumatic situations on a daily basis.
I have visited the Calais and Dunkirk camp several times and I have seen hundreds of desperate children stuck in limbo. Only last weekend I talked to Yazidi children in a camp in Kurdistan where the Turkish authorities are doing nothing. I am particularly concerned today by the situation that will result from the clearance of the Calais Jungle taking place as we speak.
Beyond the issues of relocation and identification procedure, which must be ethical and compassionate, we must ensure access to education and put in place mechanisms to support and heal children who are very often experiencing immense suffering and trauma, often resulting in serious mental health issues. This must be done by taking into account the special needs of children with disabilities and young women and girls.
I also want to highlight the role of non-formal and informal learning, including sport, volunteering, arts and culture, which by providing safe spaces for intercultural dialogue and exchange not only facilitate the social inclusion of refugee children into their new communities, but also address stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination in the host countries. We must act in a concerted way at European level to offer protection to children in the context of migration. A whole generation of children, especially girls and young women, face a bleak future without education. The eight-year-old Yazidi girl I talked to on Saturday is desperate to go to school. We need to invest in her future and the future of all displaced children."@en1
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