On the occasion of Children’s Rights Day, 20 November, we want to highlight that children and young people on the move have the right to a child-sensitive asylum procedure. Accessible, accurate and recognisable information is an essential part of this, as is the presence of a supportive network that can help them understand and process that information.
Are you a guardian, lawyer, youth worker in a reception centre, teacher, foster parent, friend or neighbour of children and young people involved in this procedure? Then this video is for you as well. You can watch it together with children and young people in Dutch, French, Arabic, Dari, English, Pashto and Spanish.
Children and young people on the move also have a right to be heard in matters affecting them. That is why the video was carefully conceived, written and produced in co-creation with young people with lived experienced at the CALL. They were involved in every stage of the production: as idea-makers, brainstormers, writers, actors, extras, reviewers and during the recording of the voice-overs. Together with other young people – with and without experience of the asylum procedure – and with Sara Lembrechts, Ellen van Vooren, filmmaker Camille Ghekiere, production company Het Bataljon, the CALL and Kopergietery, they portrayed the appeal procedure from the perspective of young people themselves.
This production was funded by Ghent University (Maatschappelijk Valorisatiefonds, Facultair Valorisatiefonds and Fonds Freya Vander Laenen) and stems from the ongoing doctoral research of Sara Lembrechts, which examines the procedural rights of children and young people in asylum appeal procedures before the CALL.
🎬📽️ You can watch the video together with the young people you support via this link: https://lnkd.in/ei9b2NEY.
🌱ℹ️ More information about the research project can be found here: https://lnkd.in/erEDsq6P