JUSTICE AND CONSUMERS - DG JUST awards grant to UNHCR for the protection of children in migration

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date: 15/11/2017

DG JUST has awarded a direct grant to UNHCR (EUR 955 809) to fund activities related to the protection of children in migration under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship programme.

UNHCR will receive funding for actions addressing the following objectives which are part of a four-point plan to protect children in migration:

to carry out child protection and child safeguarding activities for children in migration to prevent violence against migrant and refugee children;
to support and strengthen national child protection systems to protect children in migration;
to increase child protection capacity of national asylum and migration professionals and practitioners and national and local NGOs, as well as others working directly with children;
and support governments and national human rights institutions in monitoring respect for the rights of child refugee and migrant children.

The project activities will be carried out in Austria, Belgium, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and UK and will run for 18 months. This grant completes the set of previously awarded grants to IOM, Save the Children Sweden and UNICEF from 2016 .

DG JUST awards grant to UNHCR for the protection of children in migration

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