and the Construction of Vulnerability - Child Trafficking

eyond this framework is to defend - without discrimination - the rights of all
children who are exploited or at risk of exploitation, or negatively affected by the
exploitation of their relatives, during or following a process of migration, regardless
of how the migratory process is organised, by whom and for what purpose.
● CR agencies should promote the Convention on the Rights of the Child as a comprehensive
agenda for rights protection both in contexts of origin and destination
with particular regard to the rights – including economic, social and cultural
rights - that children and adolescents try to address themselves through
migratory agency.
● Government’s interpretation and application of the supplementary protocols to
the UN Convention on Transnational Organised Crime (2000) should be a particular
concern to CR agencies with a view to the protocol’s saving clauses (Art
14 & 19 respectively) which establish that nothing in them shall affect the rights,
obligations and responsibilities of states and individuals under national law,
including international humanitarian law, international human rights law,
refugee law and the principle of non-refoulement.
● CR agencies should build capacity and expertise on migration policy making
processes at regional (e.g. EU) and national level in order to pro-actively advocate
the rights of the child in these processes. There is scope for further developed
collaboration and networking between CR agencies and migrant’s rights and
minority rights groups in this respect.
● CR agencies should monitor implications for children’s rights related to migration
of EU development assistance to third countries.
● CR agencies should support PICUM’s (2007) recommendation that undocumented
migrants be included as a specific target group in the EU Social Protection
and Social Inclusion Process. CR agencies should promote interventions that
make migration for children and families in disadvantaged positions as safe as
possible and interventions that increase their choice between staying in their
country of origin and emigrating in terms of economic opportunities.
● CR agencies should promote legislative solutions that make it possible for children
to join their migrating parent(s)/caretakers - including in temporary migration
schemes – should this be what the family prefers.
● CR agencies should promote counselling on legal rights and – where necessary -
access to alternative social services, health care and education – for undocumented
migrant children.
● CR agencies should ensure that undocumented migrant children are not denied
access to education and health care because of uncertainty among public service
providers such as teachers and doctors as to what the law allows them to do for
this group of children.
● In light of global ecological change and other migration driving side effects of
economic growth in an inter-connected world, CR agencies may consider what
reasonable grounds for asylum claims to advocate for in the future.
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