11 February 2020 Today, as we celebrate Safer Internet Day 2020, it is fundamental to stress that the internet and new technology - along with hyper-connectivity - pose new risks and threats to children and youn...
Strasbourg 26 November 2019 Today the European Parliament adopted with a strong majority a Resolution on Children’s Rights to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Righ...
There are hundreds of European children of ISIS/Daesh fighters, living in conflict areas in Syria and Iraq. Some of them are in refugee’s camps facing enormous risks and discrimination, while others are detained in terribl...
A Child is first and foremost a child. On International Day Against the use of Child Soldiers, I think about millions of children whose lives have been shattered by conflicts around the World. Let us not for...
The European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights is following with dismay and deep apprehension the situation of 47 people, including 13 unaccompanied children, in the rescue ship SeaWatch 3 stranded in the Mediterranean Sea few miles away from the Sicilian shore, as...
Intergroup Co-Chairs Statement 21 June 2018, Brussels We strongly condemn the inhuman treatment inflicted to migrant children at the US-Mexico border by the US Government. We are utterly shocked by the images of children detained in warehouses, behind bars and under the con...
UNICEF & Eurochild launch a survey on the Europe Kids Want An online survey designed to capture the views of children and young people on the future of Europe is being launched today, in what will be a rare opportunity for children living in the contin...
Protection and care for children during rescue and transfer operations; the need to ban child refugee and migrant children detention; more efforts to step up international protection for every child in fear of being persecuted; the need to tra...
On Universal Children's Day, 20 November 2015, several Members of the European Parliament expressed what the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) means to them and what its impact is on the lives of children....
The co-chairs of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights MEP Anna Maria Corazza Bildt (PPE) and MEP Caterina Chinnici (S&D) have sent, together with group's vice-presidents MEP Nathalie Griesbeck (ALDE) , MEP Jean Lamber...
