Speeches by Commissioners Avramopoulos and Jourová at the 10th European Forum on the rights of the child – The protection of children in migration

Text of a speech by Commissioners Avramopoulos and Jourová at the 10th European Forum on the rights of the child - The protection of children in migration on the 29 November 2016.

In this speech, they reminded that a report from Sweden last week said that four per cent, or eighteen hundred, of the forty-five thousand unaccompanied child asylum applicants from 2013 to the present have gone missing.

To handle this situation in February 2016, the European Commission announced a comprehensive approach to the protection of children in migration.
The EU Agencies, the Fundamental Rights Agency, the European Asylum Support Office and Frontex carry out crucial guidance and support roles. They have developed helpful tools and collected qualitative data which can be used to inform policy.