Children’s Rights Alliance and UNICEF Ireland: Perilous Passage Child Refugee Symposium - 5 April 2018

Date: 5 April

Time: 11:00 -1:30 pm

Venue: Chartered Accountants' House, 47- 49 Pearse Street, Dublin 2 

The Children’s Rights Alliance with the support of UNICEF Ireland is holding a symposium to examine the situation of child refugees across Europe and in Ireland.
 
In response to the European migrant situation, the Irish Government made a commitment to relocate and resettle 4,000 refugees, prioritising children and families.This symposium will hear from both national and international speakers on progress to date including:

• David Stanton TD, Minister of State for Equality, Immigration and Integration
• Sarah Crowe, Spokesperson Refugee and Migrant Crisis, UNICEF Geneva
• Catherine Cosgrave, Legal Services Manager, Immigrant Council of Ireland

The symposium will provide:

• an overview of the experiences of child refugees travelling to Europe from Mediterranean routes
• examine the Irish Government’s commitments to child refugees, and
• ​explore how Ireland can prioritise and protect child refugees in the future.

Please RSVP using Eventbrite here. Registration will commence at 10.30am.
 
The full programme will be available next week.