Here’s what’s happened so far…

Campaign Objectives

1) To build a civil society movement around ending the immigration detention of children

2) To convince political leaders and stakeholders that children should not to be in immigration detention

3) To urge governments to undertake legal, policy and practical action not to detain children

4) To support the development of international legal frameworks which ensure that children and their families are not detained for migration related reasons

1. FreeChildren should under no circumstances be detained. Liberty is a fundamental human right. 2. Treated as childrenChildren are, first and foremost, children and should be treated in full accordance with international law regarding child rights. 3. Looked afterThe best interest of the child must be the primary consideration in any action that a State might take in relation to a child. 4. In the communityStates should transpose into their respective legislation and practice an end to the detention of children for migration reasons and seek to develop appropriate community placement models. 5. With their parentsConsistent with the principles of family unity, the parents or primary care-givers should not be detained, but should be allowed to live in the community setting with their children, while having their status assessed. Unaccompanied or separated children should be appointed an independent guardian.

Campaign position: Children should be…

The Campaign has been formally endorsed by 80 organisations including OHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF Amnesty International, APT and the Jesuit Refugee Service.

In Europe, it has been endorsed by:Salusbury world Refugee CentreBail for Immigration DetaineesAVID (Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees) Medact Refugee Health NetworkEnd Child Detention Now UKAsylum WelcomeAditus foundationHungarian Helsinki CommitteeFrance terre d'asileJRS InternationalPlatform Minors in Exile-Platform Kinderen op de Vlucht-Palte-forme Mineurs en ExilLigue des droits de l'Homme (Belgique francophone)

Campaign endorsements

Research

Launched with the campaign

Interviews with 70 detained children from 11 countries

Practical model- CCAP

Availiable at www.idcoalition.org/

ccap

Campaign tools

14% of those signatures are from Europe

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Ireland

Italy

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russian Federation

Spain

Sweeden

Switzerland

Turkey

Ukraine

UK

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The majority of those are from Belgium and the UK

The invisible picture show

It had launches in Mexico, South Africa, Malta, Malaysia, Finland and it was nominated for an innovation award in the Sheffield Film Festival.

It also had a social media launch in Greece.

We continue to use this resource at high-level UN events as well

Country focus months

The idea:

– cluster targeted national activities – brings together civil society– allows for media coverage– perfect for stepping up government engagement – opportunity to platform detention visits, report launches and other activities

The countries have been chosen based on :• regional balance• member base• concern around child detention• the likelihood of change

Country focus months

• The campaign has held focus months in: – Mexico– Australia– South Africa– Malaysia– Greece !!

Greek Focus Month

Malaysia Focus Month

Case Study: Malaysia

Case Study: Malaysia

Case Study: Malaysia

Campaign endorsement

Campaign endorsement

Campaign Support: profile

Campaign Support: newsletter

Campaign Support: digital

• Facebook: End Immigration Detention of Children

• Twitter: @childdetention

• Vimeo: End Child Detention

Key Questions

• Would you like to run some campaign activites in your community?

• Do you have a group of committed individuals and organisations with the time to run a focus month?

Key Questions

What do you believe is going to convince decision makers to make change?

-> this should lead the the main ‘ask’ of the campaign, which can help design events around the focus month

Key Questions

-Action items: where to from here?