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22 June 2022
Tabled by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In the draft resolution, after paragraph 1, insert the following paragraph:
“The main reasons for the substantial number of children ending up in Europe alone, often without any identification, means of subsistence or support are poverty, armed conflicts, and the climate crisis. In recent years, most unaccompanied children came from Afghanistan, Syria, and Bangladesh. The Assembly stresses the need for sustained efforts to eradicate poverty and deprivation across the world; to invest massively in peace building, reconciliation and peaceful conflict resolution; and to prioritise tackling climate change and ensuring decent living standards for all, rather than economic growth and profit-maximising for the few.”
22 June 2022
Tabled by Ms Luz MARTINEZ SEIJO, Mr Antonio GUTIÉRREZ LIMONES, Mr Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO, Ms Susana SUMELZO, Ms María Luisa BUSTINDUY, Mr Marc LAMUÀ
Votes: 69 in favor 0 against 6 abstentions
In the draft resolution, after paragraph 5.4, insert the following paragraph:
"access to education. Governments must provide for the integration of unaccompagnied migrant minors in the field of education, ensure their learning process and facilitate their link with school and with other children of their age."
22 June 2022
Tabled by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In the draft resolution, after paragraph 5.4, insert the following paragraph:
“child-sensitive age-assessment procedures, which should only be carried out if there are serious doubts about a person’s age, and which should always be carried out in the best interests of the child, and be subject to independent monitoring; the development of a single model of age assessment in Europe, based on the presumption that the person is a minor; systematic application of the margin of error in favour of the person concerned, so that the lowest age in the margin determined by the assessment is recorded as the person’s age; and access to effective remedies.”
22 June 2022
Tabled by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Votes: 20 in favor 46 against 9 abstentions
In the draft resolution, delete paragraph 7.
22 June 2022
Tabled by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
In the draft resolution, after paragraph 8.7, insert the following paragraph:
"build public support for child-friendly policies in the field of migration, by raising awareness of the plight of unaccompanied and separated migrant and refugee children, making full use of the wealth of witness accounts and advocacy;"
22 June 2022
Tabled by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
At the end of paragraph 11, add the following words:
", as well as enhanced opportunities for integration in the host country."
22 June 2022
Tabled by Ms Serap YAŞAR, Mr Mehmet Mehdi EKER, Mr Ahmet YILDIZ, Ms Arzu ERDEM, Mr Kamil AYDIN, Mr Ziya ALTUNYALDIZ
Votes: 19 in favor 50 against 9 abstentions
In the draft resolution, at the beginning of paragraph 13, add the following sentences:
"Aware of the high number of children in institutional care in Ukraine, often orphans and children with special needs, the Assembly welcomes the initiative of the wife of the President of Ukraine, Ms Olena Zelenska, and the wife of President of the Republic of Türkiye, Mrs Emine Erdoğan, who organised the relocation of 1200 children to Türkiye, which already hosts 1.7 million Syrian children. The Assembly calls on member States to follow this example and provide international protection, care and adequate assistance to orphaned or institutionalised children fleeing conflict and war."
Explanatory note
Many member States have acted instantly to host and protect these migrant and refugee children. These good examples must be mentioned so that it would encourage other member States to take similar protective measures for unaccompanied and separated migrant children.