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...
On 3 June, the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights, the EU Agency for Human Rights (FRA) and UNICEF will organise an event on children's access to justice in the European Union. The event will focus on what we know about children in contac...
Strasbourg– 30 April 2015 Children are suffering of crisis, conflicts and refugees tragedies in and around Europe. The Intergroup on children's rights in the European Parliament asks the European Commission to propose actions to f...
Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker President of the European Commission B-1048 Brussels cc. First Vice-President of the European Commission, Mr. Frans Timmermans cc. European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and...
The European Parliament expressed in the Resolution on the 25th anniversary of the UNCRC its will to create an intergroup on children’s rights and well-being, based on the Child Rights Manifesto authored by the Child Rights Action Group (CRAG)....
