Question 8183 — children

Summary

Ms. Francesca Pasquini draws the attention of the Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, responsible for children, to the situation of unaccompanied minors in France. France welcomes unaccompanied minors on its territory, from extremely perilous and traumatic migratory journeys, who number around seventeen thousand. These unaccompanied minors have rights, guaranteed by the international convention on the rights of the child of 1989, which France is committed to respecting. However, upon their arrival on the territory, certain children are held in administrative detention centers, in defiance of international law and a large number are suspected of fraud in civil status and considered adults despite the established principle of presumption of minority recently recalled by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and by the Court European Union of Human Rights. Even when they are recognized as minors, these children do not have access to their rights. Shelter and poor protection, lack of legal representation, difficulty accessing care or effective schooling, disregard for the right to privacy... Several associations, which note serious and systematic violations of the rights of unaccompanied minors, have alerted the Human Rights Committee. the United Nations to ask Geneva to intervene, conduct an investigation and make recommendations to the Government. Consequently, she asks him if, in accordance with French diplomatic policy, the Government is committed to welcoming and collaborating with the fact-finding mission and what means it intends to implement to guarantee from now on unaccompanied minors rapid and effective shelter and global and appropriate charge, in accordance with applicable law.

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