Il Mediterraneo è purtroppo sempre più il cimitero d’Europa: solo nei primi mesi 9 mesi dell’anno sarebbero 600 i bambini morti o dispersi nel tentativo di raggiungere le coste del nostro continente. Sono le stime di Save the Children che ricorda che dal 2014 ad oggi sono più di 10.400 i morti o dispersi nel Mediterraneo. “In questi giorni, in occasione della Giornata nazionale in memoria delle vittime dell’immigrazione, siamo a Lampedusa per ricordare le vite spezzate dei migranti e per chiedere con forza all’Europa un impegno concreto e non più rimandabile per evitare il ripetersi di simili tragedie e favorire la protezione e l’accoglienza di chi cerca un futuro migliore nel nostro continente”, afferma Valerio Neri, direttore generale di Save the Children Italia.

In occasione della Giornata nazionale memoria delle vittime dell’immigrazione a Lampedusa, Save the Children parteciperà agli eventi organizzati dal Comitato 3 Ottobre in collaborazione con il Ministero dell’Istruzione e con il patrocinio del Comune di Lampedusa.

Dallo scorso 7 settembre Save the Children ha avviato un’operazione di ricerca e salvataggio dei migranti nel Mediterraneo con l’obiettivo di salvare quante più vite umane possibili: in poco più di tre settimana la nave Vos Hestia di Save the Children ha tratto in salvo circa 600 migranti, tra cui 85 minori. Tra i più piccoli sono 75 coloro che hanno intrapreso il viaggio verso l’Europa senza l’accompagnamento di uno o più adulti di riferimento.

I bambini che sono sbarcati in Italia nel 2016 sarebbero, secondo l’associazione, 20.600 e degli oltre 301mila migranti sbarcati in Europa i bambini rappresentano il 28%.
“I minori, in particolare se non accompagnati, rappresentano gli individui più vulnerabili tra coloro che intraprendono la pericolosissima traversata del Mar Mediterraneo. Abbiamo il dovere morale, in collaborazione con la Guardia Costiera italiana e le altre Ong, di fare tutto ciò che è in nostro potere per trarre in salvo quante più persone possibile e di offrire ai bambini la protezione di cui hanno bisogno una volta sbarcati in Italia”, sottolinea Neri e aggiunge: “Riteniamo, inoltre, che le istituzioni europee non possano più ritardare l’attuazione di una agenda europea sulla migrazione che abbia al centro i diritti dei bambini.”

Per quanto riguarda l’Italia Save the Children ha promosso la proposta di legge C 1658 sulla protezione e l’accoglienza dei minori stranieri non accompagnati, che è nuovamente all’esame della Commissione affari costituzionali dopo essere stata ferma per quasi tre anni. EuNews.it



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Seicento bambini morti o dispersi nel Mediterraneo quest’anno

Il Mediterraneo è purtroppo sempre più il cimitero d’Europa : s olo nei primi mesi 9 mesi dell’anno sarebbero 600 i bambini morti o disper...
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Il numero di minori in fuga dall'America Centrale verso gli  Stati Uniti è in crescita nuovamente,  come il problema della sicurezza e quello economico nei paesi dell’America Centrale da cui provengono, in particolare  El Salvador, Guatemala e Honduras.
Alcuni paragonano l’attuale crisi a quella vissuta nel 2014 in cui un enorme flusso di  minori non accompagnati si spostava dall’America Centrale verso gli Stati Uniti, spingendo l’amministrazione Obama a mettere in atto misure di emergenza per arginare il flusso.
Lo scorso anno, gli sforzi sembravano funzionare, infatti il numero è sceso dai circa 70.000 del 2014 a 39.970. Ora l'esodo verso gli Stati Uniti è di nuovo in aumento. Nei primi 9 mesi del 2016 il numero è di 54.052 minori non accompagnati.

Ci sono molte ragioni che spiegano questo aumento:

--in El Salvador, le persone sono in fuga da un livello impressionante di violenza che ha reso il paese il posto in cui si registrano più omicidi al mondo, secondo i dati della Banca Mondiale.

--in Honduras, la violenza è in calo negli ultimi anni, circa il 15%, il che significa che molte persone migrano alla ricerca di migliori opportunità negli Stati Uniti.

--in Guatemala, la violenza è in leggera diminuzione, anche se resistono sacche preoccupanti di violenza. Per cui il flusso si spiegherebbe principalmente per ragioni economiche. 

Inoltre, a spiegare questo aumento sono le paure dettate da una probabile vittoria di Donald Trump che ha promesso la creazione di un muro lungo il confine Messicano. A confermare questa tesi è il direttore del Center For Immigration Studies, Mark Krikorian, secondo cui la  prospettiva di una presidenza Trump è uno stimolo alla emigrazione dei minori non accompagnati.

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Immigrazione di Minori non Accompagnati in aumento negli Stati Uniti d'America

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Un gruppo di parlamentari del partito conservatore hanno scritto al Ministro degli Interni sollecitandola a garantire che i minori non accompagnati con la famiglia in Gran Bretagna vengano trasferiti dalla Jungle di Calais prima dello smantellamento del sito. 

A group of Tory MPs have written to the Home Secretary urging her to ensure unaccompanied children with family in Britain are moved out of the Calais jungle before it is torn down.

Nicky Morgan, the former Education Secretary, is among the signatories calling for the government to "do more" to find a legal and safe way to get unaccompanied children out of the hands of people traffickers.
The MPs have called on Amber Rudd, as a Conservative, to "champion" the role of the family in resolving the refugee crisis. In their letter they write: "We must ensure that it is the authorities and the law that help these children, and not the criminals who would put them in the back of trucks or leave them to take their own chances.

"We know how seriously you take this issue and we want you to know you have our full support to act to ensure these children learn their legal rights to be with their family and get to be with them safely and quickly.

"We can do more to help these children and in doing so we will defeat the traffickers."It comes just days after French President François Hollande vowed to shut down the notorious “Jungle” migrant camp in Calais within weeks by dispatching its residents to dozens of “reception centres” dotted across the country.
Around 9,000 people will be moved from Calais to 140 centres across France in the coming weeks, Mr Hollande said during a visit to one of the new centres in the city of Tours in the Loire Valley.
The MPs add: "Above all, as Conservatives, we must champion the role of the family in resolving this refugee crisis. "Family reunion is the best tool we have for offering a legal and safe way to get unaccompanied children back into the arms of their family and out of the hands of the traffickers."
He will take up the position in October and succeed Sir Julian King, who was recently appointed the UK's EU Commissioner.
More than 4,000 lone children are claiming asylum in Britain, with councils tasked with ensuring they are resettled and cared for.
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the French authorities to speed up the processing of lone child asylum seekers in the Calais camp and settle them in new homes or reunite them with their families. The full letter organised by Unicef:
Dear Home Secretary,
Our Prime Minister recently returned from President Obama’s global summit on the refugee crisis having rightly committed to ensure that the UK can tackle this problem at its source. We now must show we can do the same closer to home.

Recently, a 14-year-old boy died in Calais when he fell off a truck while trying to reach the UK. He had a legal right to be with his brother, but having waited for months in wretched conditions for the process to work, he took fate into his own hands with devastating consequences. He had travelled thousands of miles to find his family and his journey ended in tragedy twenty miles from our border. 

We are sure you feel as heartbroken as we do about this and the conditions in the camp he was trying to escape. Children are living alone in tents donated by the generous British people, living each day in fear of violence, exposed to criminals and, as we have seen, at risk of losing their lives. With the French authorities planning to dismantle the camp, life is only likely to get harder for these vulnerable children. 

It is critical that we in the UK ensure that unaccompanied children with a legal right to be here are kept safe while they wait. This means working with France to ensure children are moved out of the camp before the bulldozers arrive, and into a safe place where they have access to the legal support and social care they need.

We must ensure that it is the authorities and the law that help these children, and not the criminals who would put them in the back of trucks or leave them to take their own chances. We know how seriously you take this issue and we want you to know you have our full support to act to ensure these children learn their legal rights to be with their family and get to be with them safely and quickly. We can do more to help these children and in doing so we will defeat the traffickers.

Above all, as Conservatives, we must champion the role of the family in resolving this refugee crisis. Family reunion is the best tool we have for offering a legal and safe way to get unaccompanied children back into the arms of their family and out of the hands of the traffickers. We must ensure we do all we can to use the love and power of the family to keep children safe.

Yours sincerely,

Tim Loughton MP (Interim Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee)
David Burrowes MP
Nicky Morgan MP
Dr Sarah Wollaston MP
Caroline Ansell MP
Sir David Amess MP
Jason McCartney MP
Flick Drummond MP
James Gray MP
Jeremy Lefroy MP
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Tory MPs call on Amber Rudd to help unaccompanied children with family in Britain to leave Calais

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Oggi è la prima giornata nazionale della Memoria e dell'Accoglienza per commemorare i migranti morti durante le traversate della speranza.  Tre anni dopo Lampedusa, il ricordo. Il 3 ottobre 2013 si consumò nel Canale di Sicilia, al largo di Lampedusa, una delle più gravi stragi di migranti costata la vita a 386 persone che su una "carretta" del mare speravano una vita migliore. L’istituzione di una Giornata in memoria di tutte le vittime dell’immigrazione è uno strumento per sensibilizzare l’opinione pubblica sulla strage che avviene nel Mediterraneo e non solo e costruire una cultura di accoglienza per le persone che fuggono da guerre e miseria cercando salvezza. Il 3 Ottobre deve essere un giorno di riflessione e d’impegno. Un giorno per offrire un’occasione di capire e di crescere in un mondo che non sia solo concentrato di egoismo e violenza. È uno spiraglio, una possibilità di contribuire a costruire la solidarietà che manca, che metta da parte i numeri ed insegni che quelle persone hanno un nome ed una storia, che vanno protette le persone e non i confini. Tante le iniziative tra incontri e proiezioni di film e documentari. La posizione del sindaco di Lampedusa Giusi Nicolini è molto critica verso le istituzioni Europee. «L'impegno preso dall’Unione europea con l’approvazione del piano Junker è stato totalmente disatteso». Rivolgendosi al vicepresidente della Commissione Ue, Frans Timmermans, presente all’incontro di chiusura del Prix Italia, il sindaco ha ricordato che, dopo il naufragio del 3 ottobre 2013, l’ex presidente della Commissione europea, Josè Manuel Barroso «venne qui e pronunciò una frase storica: «mai più mortì. Da allora, secondo le stime dell’Unhcr si contano 11 mila morti. Nonostante la linea di soccorso si sia spostata a sud di Lampedusa, continuiamo ad accogliere migranti sull'isola a fronte di una Ue che non ha mantenuto neppure una delle promesse che aveva fatto: voi respingete verso l’Italia più persone di quante ne accogliete».
Nicolini ha sottolineato che nel 2011 25 mila profughi «rimasero sull'isola per volontà politica, trasformandola in un tappeto di carne umana». «La comunità si fece carico dell’accoglienza e abbiamo pagato un prezzo enorme - ha spiegato -. Ma la solidarietà e non il respingimento ci ha salvati, grazie alla collaborazione con il governo. Ora dalla Ue ci aspettiamo che questo quadro di solidarietà si estenda nei confronti dell’Italia, della Grecia e di tutte le Lampedusa del Mediterraneo. Sbrigatevi perché il prezzo delle politiche di chiusura lo pagano anche comunità come quelle della nostra isola». Proteggere le persone non i confini.
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Prima Giornata della Memoria e dell'Accoglienza.

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UNICEF UK ha chiesto al governo del Regno Unito di permettere ai minori non accompagnati attualmente bloccati nella Jungle di Calais di potersi ricongiungere con i propri familiare o di poter entrare in Inghilterra in maniera legale. Inoltre, tutte le organizzazioni umanitarie operanti nel campo di Calais denunciano episodi di autolesionismo e depressione tra i bambini che aumentano con il prossimo smantellamento del sito. Abdul Afzali, che lavora per Refugee Youth Service e si prende cura dei minori non accompagnati all'interno del campo di Calais, ha dichiarato: "Alcuni si stanno bruciando con le sigarette, un braccio, poi l'altro. Altri mi hanno detto che vogliono saltare davanti a un camion e rinunciare. Purtroppo, la maggior parte hanno sviluppato grave depressione. "
Di seguito gli articoli tratti dall'Independent e dal Guardian

Child refugees at Calais plunged into despair by plan to close camp
Incidents of self-harm and depression among children in the Calais refugee camp are increasing as the mental health of unaccompanied minors deteriorates in advance of the site’s demolition. Charities, volunteers and aid agencies say they were witnessing psychological collapse among many of the site’s child refugees after President François Hollande confirmed last week that the camp would be shut down.
One senior official from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that some child refugees had threatened to harm themselves if the camp was destroyed. Aid workers also said other unaccompanied minors, many of whom are eligible to claim asylum in the UK, had talked about killing themselves, such was their despair over the camp’s future.
Abdul Afzali, who works for the charity Refugee Youth Service and looks after unaccompanied minors inside the Calais camp, said: “Some are burning themselves with cigarettes, one arm, then the other. Others have told me that they want to jump in front of a lorry and give up. Unfortunately, most have developed serious depression.”
There are at least 1,000 unaccompanied minors currently in the camp, and the British and French authorities have yet to develop a strategy to rehouse the vast majority of them after the site is destroyed later this year.
The approach of the Home Office is under increasing scrutiny. Despite a commitment in May to take thousands of child refugees from across Europe, it has admitted that not a single unaccompanied minor has been accepted. A group of Tory MPs is understood to have written to the prime minister, Theresa May, to register their concern.
Under a separate agreement designed to reunite child refugees with families living in the UK, only around 20 have been resettled since May and in these cases, charities say they have paid all the costs involved. The Home Office says it is committed to resettling “vulnerable children”.
Within the Calais camp itself, Liz Clegg, who runs the site’s unofficial women and children’s centre, said that from her observations, as many as 80% of the site’s unaccompanied minors exhibited mental health issues that would be flagged up as serious in an institution where normal child protection safeguards existed.
“They would be flagged up as ‘at risk’ – some would be placed on suicide watch. There is self-harming, repetitive behaviour; many of them are stuck in a loop. We have nine-year-olds who are barely hanging on,” said Clegg.
Grégoire Bonhomme of MSF, which has created a safe space for child refugees within the camp, said he too had heard of children threatening to hurt themselves when the camp was demolished. “Some said they will harm themselves because they will be dismayed at this situation. It is creating a lot of tension.”
However, Bonhomme also said that there was also a refusal among a cohort of child refugees to believe that the camp, which currently has a record population of more than 10,000, would be demolished. He said: “Many of them say: ‘It won’t happen, no one will arrest us, and if we want to go we’ll find a way [to the UK].’”Alexander Simmons, a volunteer for charity Care4Calais, confirmed it was monitoring “quite critical mental health issues” among a number of child refugees in the camp and that the longer they spent in the camp, the more vulnerable they became. He also lamented the fact that there was no record of the extent of the problem. The camp is not officially recognised by the authorities and no official mental health assessments have been conducted among its children.
Mary Jones, who runs Jungle Books for the camp’s child refugees, revealed that she had repeatedly seen new arrivals gradually go from initial optimism to a depressed state; some youngsters lay in bed for days. Simmons said that on Thursday an Afghan boy was taken from the camp to hospital after spending 48 hours lying in bed, unable to move.
On Saturday the charity Unicef became the latest organisation to criticise the Home Office over its approach to unaccompanied child refugees, demanding that the UK accelerate the transfer of vulnerable youngsters from Calais. Lily Caprani, Unicef UK’s deputy executive director, said it was pushing for the children in the camp to be placed in appropriate accommodation before any demolition began and for them to have access to care and legal support to process their asylum and family reunion claims. “The children in Calais need to know they will be safe before the bulldozers arrive,” said Caprani.
Charities estimate there are more than 400 unaccompanied children inside the camp who are eligible to come to Britain, but say the Home Office has not sufficiently tried to identify the exact number. More than four months after the UK government announced that it would accept child refugees from across Europe, the charities point out, no official process appears to have even been put in place to facilitate their transfer.
Josie Naughton, co-founder of the charity Help Refugees, said: “Currently no plan is in place as to how they will be protected and taken care of once the camp is demolished. We ask that the British and French authorities immediately put plans in place.”
Also on Saturday, French police fired teargas and water cannon at migrants and protesters who had gathered outside the camp in defiance of a ban, local authorities said. About 200 migrants and 50 activists assembled under a bridge to protest against living conditions. There were clashes as the police pushed the migrants back to the camp, and activists are reported to have thrown stones at the security forces.
Another 150 protesters who left Paris on Saturday on four coaches were blocked by police at a toll road about 30 miles (48 km) short of the port.
Teenage voices from Calais: ‘There is too much fighting’
Idrissa, 17, from Darfur, SudanIdrissa has been in the camp since February and is hoping to be reunited with his uncle in Birmingham. Since leaving Darfur last year, he has lost contact with his entire family and has no idea where they are, or even if they are alive: “I have tried calling, but I have no idea what has happened to them.” The teenager’s only ambition is to reach the UK. Waiting in the Calais camp has been a grim and depressing experience. “There is too much violence here. We feel afraid,” he says, gesturing to a group of unaccompanied youngsters nearby.
Yemani, 15, from Tsorona, EritreaYemani has been in the Calais camp for three months and is hoping to be reunited with his aunt, who lives in London. He is travelling alone and says that life inside the camp scares him: “There is too much fighting, people hitting each other. Bigger people than me hit me.” The teenager also says that the French police terrify him, pointing to a used teargas canister lying in the dirt outside a tent where some of the unaccompanied minors gather.
“They hit us, and fire at us,” he says, rubbing his eyes to mimic the pain.
Fadl, 17, from western SudanFadl arrived in the Calais camp four weeks ago, the end of a journey from close to the Darfur border via Libya, across the Mediterranean and through Italy. His aim is to reach London and find a job as a mechanic. He says that he is petrified of the camp, especially at night, and has sought the protection of Sudanese elders to keep him safe. “There are big problems here, people fighting, coming to the tents and scaring us,” he says. He thanks the charities for providing sustenance and says he is “extremely grateful” for their kindness.
Mubarek, 16, from EthiopiaA member of the persecuted Oromo people, Mubarek, who arrived in Calais three months ago, says his family are counting on him making it to the UK. Like many unaccompanied minors, he felt unsafe in the camp. “It is dangerous. Also, the police come in and scare us. If they try and shut the camp, they will be very bad,” he said. Mubarek raises his his hands and waves them frantically, recalling the terrors of his journey from northern Ethiopia: “I try not to think about it,” he says. The Guardian - Mark Townsend and agencies


Unicef urges UK government to speed up transfer of unaccompanied child refugees as Calais camp closes
Unicef has called on the UK government to allow unaccompanied child refugees currently stranded in the Calais migrant camp to come to Britain.
The organisation said it was concerned about the planned closure of the camp, known as the 'Jungle', saying it may lead to children disappearing before they can be processed.
Charities estimate there are around 400 unaccompanied children living there who are eligible to come to Britain.
Lily Caprani, the deputy executive director of Unicef UK, the UN body’s charitable arm in the country, told the BBC: "Last time part of the Jungle camp was demolished, hundreds of children went missing. We don't know what happened to them."
Despite this French President Francois Hollandevowed to have cleared the camp by the end of the year during a visit to the Jungle on Monday.All of the camp’s estimated 10,000 residents will be forced to move to reception centres across the country.
Mr Hollande is under intense pressure to mitigate the rising tide of anti-refugee feeling and Islamophobia ahead of the French presidential election next year.Far-right leader Marine Le Pen looks poised to at least make the run-off to become president and has vowed to stop France accepting anymore refugees.
The UK Government has also come under increasing pressure to take in the unaccompanied children.
On the first anniversary of the death of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who was found dead on a Turkish beach, last month, migrant rights charity Citizens UK handed in a letter signed by several celebrities including Juliet Stevenson and Vanessa Redgrave calling on Home Secretary Amber Rudd to accept them.
Fewer than 20 children were granted asylum in the UK in the first three months of the year.Lord Alfred Dubs, the peer who helped force the Government to accept an amendment to the Immigration Act which requires the UK to accept lone minors, said “deeply saddened” the Government was still “dragging its feet”.
Lord Dubs, who was himself a child refugee who came to the UK during the Kindertransport in 1939, said: “Now that the new Government has had some weeks to settle in after the EU referendum vote there really is no excuse for any further delay. Theresa May and Amber Rudd should be taking immediate action.”
Unicef is concerned that the children may fall into the hands of traffickers who may exploit them.
In September, The Independent revealed the Home Office does not know where 360 of the vulnerable children who have already arrived in the UK are. Of these, 81 have been missing for more than five years.
Over the past five years, 9,287 “unaccompanied minor” asylum seekers have been arrived in the UK.
A spokesman for the Home Office told The Independent the Government remained committed to resettling “vulnerable children” but said the closure of the camp was “a matter for the French government”.
He said: “The UK Government has made crystal clear its commitment to resettle vulnerable children under the Immigration Act and ensure those with links to the UK are brought here using the Dublin Regulation.
“We will also continue to support the French Government as it provides alternative accommodation to migrants in the camps and returns those not in need of protection to their home countries. The Independent Caroline Mortimer
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Unicef urges UK government to speed up transfer of unaccompanied child refugees as Calais camp closes

UNICEF UK ha chiesto al governo del Regno Unito di permettere ai minori non accompagnati attualmente bloccati nella Jungle di Calais di po...
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