World: Protection and Assistance for Children on the Move

IFRC Position on Children on the Move

1. All children on the move, irrespective of their legal standing, age, gender, or health status should have access to protection and humanitarian assistance.

2. Because of their higher vulnerabilities, unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) require particular and urgent protection.

3. No child should be detained based solely on her or his migration status.

4. In order to improve the protection and humanitarian assistance of children on the move it is necessary to meaningfully engage and provide leadership opportunities for girls and boys to identify protection risks and find and implement solutions.

5. More needs to be done to enhance the evidence-base of what specific interventions work to protect children on the move and those that do not, and why.