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UNHCR - The European Union, UNICEF and UNHCR join efforts to protect children on the move in Central America, Mexico and Southern Africa


A child draws at a UNHCR-supported shelter in Mexico City for unaccompanied minors from northern Central America, November 2019.  © UNHCR/Hector Perez
BRUSSELS/JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI –
 The European Union (EU), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency have announced today the launch of the new
EU
Global Promotion of Best Practices for Children in Migration programme to strengthen child protection systems and provide alternatives to immigration detention.
This multi-country programme, with a total budget of €7.5 million, has received €7 million from the EU and is being implemented across four countries in two regions: El Salvador and Mexico in Latin America; South Africa and Zambia in Southern Africa. Over the course of the 30-month programme, UNICEF and UNHCR will jointly work with national governments; local authorities with portfolios of child protection and social welfare, home affairs and justice; civil societ ....

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