Starting now: the important @EP_Justice hearing on children's rights on the move. It's crucial to hear from the people that faced violence at our borders, like Sajid Khan Nasiri and Parwana Amiri, about how changeling it was to find a safe path to Europe.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1630925767272964096
@EP_Justice Sajid Khan Nasiri: “The Taliban killed my father, so my family decided that I should leave Afghanistan for Europe. They said: you will be safe.
I didn’t know that going to Europe was the most dangerous thing I would ever do in my life.”
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1630930189696790529
@EP_Justice Nasiri: “I slept in forests, on streets, under bridges, in unbuilt houses and tents in the cold. And in refugee camps in between hundreds of adult men. I felt scared and lost. The journey had a huge impact on me and I asked for protection in many countries, but no-one helped me.”
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1630930522573602816
@EP_Justice Nasiri: “After a two-year-long journey, I arrived in my new country Belgium, and could finally ask for asylum.
I thought: now my new life can start; I can finally go to school or have some rest. I could become a child again.
How wrong I was about that..”
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1630931052683317248
@EP_Justice Nasiri: "I heard that one of my friends killed himself by throwing himself into a river in Bosnia. He was only 15 years old. Another close friend committed suicide in BE due to stress. Like them, there are many other children on the move in distress, while one needs protection."
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1630946135526240261
@EP_Justice Nasiri: "At the same time Ukrainian kids can go to school and are offered places to stay. That’s great, they need it. But we all need it, we are all children.
So I urge you: please be the change for all children on the move."
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1630947529306132480
@EP_Justice Parwana Amiri stressed that the biggest problem she ever faced was not only the humanitarian situation in refugee camps, like Moria, but the lack of educational opportunities. (1/2)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1630951239906107398
@EP_Justice Especially, if one considers that the process take years, thus when people are finally able to lay claim to their right to education, they are no longer minors and their needs once more remain unanswered. (2/2)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Tineke_Strik/status/1630951451232026625