Youth
World Refugee Day 2003 focused on Refugee Youth, putting the spotlight on their needs, their potential and their drive to create a better future for themselves and their communities. The UNHCR explains:
“It is the special plight of these innocents that UNHCR wishes to spotlight, by dedicating World Refugee Day 2003 to Refugee Youth, and thereby open the eyes of a worldwide audience to their needs. We also wish to accentuate the positive by celebrating their many strengths, their huge potential, and their capacity to help themselves and their communities. Our aim is to provide refugee youth with a heightened sense of value and self-worth…”
Research Guide
- Hart, Jason. "FMO Research Guide: Children and Adolescents in Conflict Situations’ (October 2002)
Documents
Selected full-text documents (for more, search in the Digital Library)
- African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect, The rights of refugee children and their protection (1993)
- Children's Legal Centre, Children or Refugees? A survey of West European policies on unaccompanied refugee children (1992)
- Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, Protecting the rights of children: the need for US children's asylum guidelines (1998)
Web Resources
Selected web-based information resources (for more, search the FMO website)
- Children and war, Reuters Foundation
- Child rights (UNICEF)
- Child Soldiers Global Reports (Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers)
- Human trafficking in the EU: EU legislation being adopted against trafficking in human beings and the sexual exploitation of children, European Commission. Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs
- International journal of children’s rights, Kluwer Law International
- El mundo de los niños: Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados (ACNUR)
- Refugee children: guidelines on protection and care, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Refugee Toolkit, The Children’s Society
- Separated Children in Europe Programme, (SCEP)
- The state of the world’s children 2003, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- UNICEF: emergencies, UNICEF
Relevant Organizations
Contact details for organizations (for more, search in the Organizations Directory)
- Action for Children in Conflict International, (AfC)
- Child Health Foundation
- The Children and Armed Conflict Unit
- Children International
- Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
- The Child-To-Child Trust
- The Children's Society
- Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
- International Children's Institute (ICI)
- Refugee Youth in America
- Save the Children
- UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
- Women's Refugee Commission
- Youth for Human Rights Education and Development-Bhutan (YHURED)





