Press release
of September 18th, 1998
World Children’s Day on September 20th
PRO ASYL denounces the absolutely negative
check of the children policy of the Federal Government
Instead of integration discrimination promoted
World Children’s Day on September 20th (en)
„Die verfluchte Gewöhnung an Unrecht muß ein Ende haben“
Kein großer Tag für die Kleinen
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„An absolutely negative check on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Federal Government carries out the National Human Rights Agency for Refugees PRO ASYL on the occasion of the World Children’s Day on coming sunday.
„Absolutely nothing has be done by the Federal Government and its coalition in the now ending legislative period to improve the framework for the integration and protection of refugee children, declared the spokesman of PRO ASYL, Heiko Kauffmann.
Although the UN-Committee for the Rights of the Child in Geneva has clearly criticised the attitude of the Federal Government already at the end of 1995 and has demanded the essential adaptation of the German asylum and aliens law to the UN-Convention on the Rights of the Child the situation of the refugee and foreign children has further tightened among others by the regulation of Minister Kanther on visa requirements for children.
According to PRO ASYL German authorities would deport unaccompanied refugee children against their will furthermore without getting any counselling and company suitable for a child to their countries of origin and without having carefully clarified the long-term care, the reception and the perspective of the child there.
„If 12-year-old children are deported without advance notice to Vietnam, a 14-year-old Romanian girl without any care to Bucharest, a 16-year-old Kurdish girl even against the advice of the German embassy to Turkey and solely during this year in Berlin more than 80 minors are put into detention pending deportation, then „the best interests of the child“ are subordinated a unprecedented and smooth sealing off and deterrence ideology „, Kauffmann said.
