Migrant protection and their human rights are a key priority for young people. Our Protection and Human Rights portfolio is aimed at ensuring that the youth perspective on this topic can impact decision making, including through consulting young experts and through focusing on the specific challenges and opportunities encountered by young people and children.
We consult youth voices on environmental and climate change migration and convey them at major decision-making spaces.
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We consult youth voices on alternatives to detention at major decision-making spaces, including the UN Network on Migration Working Group on Alternatives to Detention.
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We consult youth voices on human rights and protection and bring their perspectives to key major decision-making spaces, including IOM’s International Dialogue on Migration and contributing to Human Rights reports.
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MYCP is part of the Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) – the official, formal and self-organised space for children and youth (aged below 30) to contribute to and engage in certain intergovernmental and allied policy processes at the UN since 1992. Our mission is to bridge children and youth and the UN system, with a focus on migration issues, in order to ensure that their right to meaningful participation is realised. We do so by engaging children and youth entities in formal and informal forms in the design, implementation, monitoring, follow-up and review of sustainable development policies at all levels in four areas: Policy & Advocacy, Capacity Building, Youth Action and Knowledge.
