{"id":39657,"date":"2018-06-20T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?post_type=media-center&#038;p=39657"},"modified":"2018-06-22T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T23:06:05","slug":"children-on-the-move-more-vulnerable-to-violence-new-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"media-center","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/about-us\/media-center\/children-on-the-move-more-vulnerable-to-violence-new-report-finds","title":{"rendered":"Children on the move more vulnerable to violence, new report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&rdquo;1\/3&Prime; el_class=&rdquo;vc_col-sm-push-8&Prime;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Children&rsquo;s rights must be respected, regardless of their status, says World Vision<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>More than 28 million children have been forced to flee their homes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/2018\/Displaced_Report_WVUS_June202018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Vision Displaced Report June 20, 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&rdquo;2\/3&Prime; el_class=&rdquo;vc_col-sm-pull-4&Prime;][vc_single_image image=&rdquo;39659&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo; add_caption=&rdquo;yes&rdquo; alignment=&rdquo;center&rdquo;][vc_column_text]<strong><em>Wednesday, June 20<\/em> &mdash;<\/strong>&nbsp;All over the world, people are forced to flee their homes because of conflict, extreme poverty, drought or other crises. But while they search for safer places to raise their families, instead their children can be exposed to some of the worst types of violence.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s confronting and deeply troubling that the search for safety itself is so dangerous for the children parents are trying to protect,&rdquo; says Andrew Hassett, World Vision&rsquo;s Senior Campaign Director.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report released on World Refugee Day, today, World Vision finds very little funding and focus on the needs of refugee children and those displaced within their own countries. This, despite the increasing numbers and complexities of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re witnessing the effects of displacement on children in South Sudan, Syria and Bangladesh, Latin America and many other places. Yet there are very few effective policies around the world that address the protection needs of these children who are on the move. Good policy is compromised for political purposes and we are failing the most vulnerable children,&rdquo; says Hassett.<\/p>\n<p><em>On the Road to Somewhere: Why ending violence against children on the move is possible <\/em>reports that in 2017, more than 28 million children were forced to flee their homes, and more than &nbsp;and 16 million of those were displaced by conflict and violence in their own countries.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our home was completely destroyed; my mother was killed and my brother was detained by one of the armed groups. They forced us to leave our village. We left immediately as we no longer had a home there,&rdquo; said Ahmad, 14, from Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Too many families like Ahmad&rsquo;s are forced to make a bad or worse choice. Their stories are hard but so important to hear,&rdquo; says Hassett.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yet so many of those we work with tell us they have hope.&rdquo;&ldquo;I used to think that I couldn&rsquo;t play or laugh, but now I&rsquo;m convinced that I can,&rdquo; said Lamia, a 15-year-old Syrian refugee in Jordan who attends a World Vision Child-Friendly Space. &ldquo;Now I understand that at my age, that is what I should be doing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The report draws on World Vision&rsquo;s experience to highlight five critical elements to ending violence against children on the move:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating safe environments,<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening child protection systems,<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring safe access to education,<\/li>\n<li>Challenging attitudes, norms and behaviours that allow violence against children to continue<\/li>\n<li>Empowering children as agents of peace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&ldquo;Ending violence against children on the move is possible, but we know it starts with seeing children as children first, regardless of their status.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ENDS<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>About <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/03\/www.worldvision.org\"><strong>World Vision<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong><br>\nWorld Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization conducting relief, development, and advocacy activities in its work with children, families, and their communities in nearly 100 countries to help them reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.&nbsp;For more information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/03\/www.worldvision.orgabout-us\/media-center\/\">www.WorldVision.org\/media-center\/<\/a>&nbsp;or on Twitter <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WorldVisionUSA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WorldVisionUSA<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39659,"template":"","leader":[],"class_list":["post-39657","media-center","type-media-center","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issues-child-protection","media-center-resource-press-release","media-contacts-brian-p-duss","press-issue-child-protection","press-issue-syrian-refugee-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Children on the move more vulnerable to violence, new report finds | World Vision<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/about-us\/media-center\/children-on-the-move-more-vulnerable-to-violence-new-report-finds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Children on the move more vulnerable to violence, new report finds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All over the world, people are forced to flee their homes because of conflict, extreme poverty, drought or other crises. 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