There are millions of people fleeing wars, human rights violations, conflicts, internal disturbances and difficult living conditions in their countries, denied access to basic rights such as education, healthcare, employment and freedom of movement, and therefore leave their homes and flee elsewhere. Immigrant, asylum seeker or refugee. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that in 2018 the number of people fleeing war, conflict and persecution exceeded 70 million, the highest number the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has witnessed in its nearly 70-year history. It was observed that the majority of these people were children. In 2018, one out of every two refugees was a child. According to the report published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before 20 June 2019 World Refugee Day, there are approximately 25.9 million refugee children under the age of 18. Today, millions of children cannot live in their own homes, in their own country, receive education, and continue their lives in healthy conditions like their peers, as a result of the negativities and inhumane treatment they are exposed to. Even though every child has the same and equal rights regardless of religion, language and race, 25.9 million children cannot use these rights. Even worse, these children are getting lost in the process At the beginning of 2016, Europol confirmed that 10,000 refugee children were missing across Europe. Families of refugee and asylum-seeking children immigrate because they believe they will find better education and job opportunities in the target countries, taking into account many risks, and most of them turn their route to European countries
Article 33 of the Geneva Refugee Convention guarantees that anyone seeking asylum cannot be turned away from the border and prohibits being sent to another country in danger of pursuit. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child says "Unaccompanied minors cannot be turned away from the border". However, these articles are generally ignored and refugee and asylum-seeking children are left to their own lives (ie death.) Children who have managed to reach the target countries are abused by many local citizens in that country. No rights are given to children in their own country or in any other country, especially the right to live. Children who have special needs due to their ages are more sensitive to external factors. They need the protection, care and emotional support provided by adults not only for survival, but also for their psychological and social health. Violence, losses, insecurity, disintegration of family and social structure, limitations in food, health and education resources deeply affect children. We want to realize our project in order not to ignore this violation of rights and to increase the awareness of "children", which has the same meaning for all peoples, both in the public and decision makers. The more people we can reach, the more people will be able to raise awareness on this issue.
Specific goals are:
1-To show problems of refugee children to young people
2-To inform and raise awareness about children rights
3-To raise awareness in young people about that every child has the same rights no matter what religion, language or race they have
4- To increase the motivation and competence of young people to take initiative at the point of inclusion in the problem of child rights violations by producing solutions to the problems of refugee children.