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Protection and alternative care for unaccompanied and separated migrant and refugee children

Amendment No. 3 | Doc. 15548 | 21 June 2022

Committee
Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Origin
2022 - Third part-session
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.”