The Council of Europe is calling for examples of good or promising practice of methods or tools used to communicate with children in migration in a child-friendly way, to support the preparation of a handbook for practitioners on promoting child-friendly information for refugee and migrant children on access to rights and procedures. This action is part of the Council of Europe Action plan on protecting refugee and migrant children (2017-2019).
Child-friendly information is understood as including any method of communication that is adapted to the age and maturity of the child, given in a language which they can understand and which is gender and culture sensitive.
You may want to contribute examples of tools or communication methods used by your institutions or organisations to inform children in migration about their rights or the procedures which affect them, in particular in the following areas:
- Preventing violence, sexual violence, trafficking and smuggling;
- Asylum and immigration procedures, including in detention, hotspots, transit zones;
- Legal routes to and through Europe, including family reunification, Dublin, relocation;
- Rights and procedures in host States, including access to justice, age assessment, guardianship, durable solutions, access to education.
Examples of good practice or methodology on questions of who is the best actor to give information, where, when and how the information should be communicated as well as examples of how stakeholders have adapted the substantive information to the needs of the child are also of interest.
Contributions may be received in whatever format, for example: written, video, audio, testimonial, report. Please note only examples accompanied with translations in English or French will be accepted.
The elements received will support the preparation of a Handbook aimed at guiding States and relevant stakeholders on how to provide child-friendly and appropriate information to children in migration.
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