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#Migrants: 160 organizations remind EU leaders they must protect people on the move

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Immigrants-Kos-e1432731625560Today (8 March), more than 160 organisations from 20+ countries are calling on EU heads of states and government to uphold the founding values and principles of the European Union and take leadership by showing solidarity with refugees and migrants, ahead of the Council Meeting taking place 9-10 March. 

Since the summer of 2015 European leaders have too often let the preoccupation with stopping people from reaching Europe risk access to protection for those who need it most, especially children on the move.  The EU’s founding principles of human rights, dignity, solidarity and rule of law cannot be just empty words.

EU recent policies on migration, while claiming to do so, fail to take the best interest of the child into account. World Vision is particularly concerned about moves that would allow children to be detained, with or without their families, for long periods of time.
“All the evidence shows that detaining children, no matter for how long, can have a disastrous impact on their development and wellbeing” says Justin Byworth, World Vision Brussels’ Executive Director. “Now, more than ever, EU leaders need to step up and take bold action to effectively protect children and their families on the move.”
This includes expanding safe and regular pathways to Europe, such as increasing resettlement spaces and improving access to family reunification schemes. Other global concerns such as conflict and instability, poverty, inequality and climate change should not be put aside and must remain at the top of the European agenda.

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