Submitted on Tuesday 20th September 2016
Rejected on Thursday 22nd September 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Help 1022 children living alone in Calais in breach of UN Rights of the Child
Latest census by "Help Refugees" found 1,179 children live in the 'jungle' camp. 1,022 are on their own without their families. Many are unable to reach their families who are in the UK. This is breaches multiple articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
On average 11 unaccompanied minors arrive in the Calais camp every single day. Not one child has been brought to the UK under Dubs amendment despite it passing in May. As a member state of the UN, the UK government is obliged to take immediate action.
Report detailing the findings of the census:
http://www.calaidipedia.co.uk/camp-news/septembercensusresults-howmanymore19thseptember2016
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:
http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/164083
The petition we have quoted as a duplicate is slightly different to yours. It specifically asks for the adoption or fostering of unaccompanied children in Calais. But we believe that both petitions seek the same ultimate outcome: that the unaccompanied youth of Calais are allowed into Britain, and thus have rejected yours.
Campaigns are often more effective if they are centralised into one petition, as a single campaign that includes many nuances, as opposed to many campaigns that pursue a single outcome, is more likely to draw Government action.
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