Children’s Lives Filled With Risk Fear and Danger
Posted on August 6, 2008
Claude and Majolie N’Deh, and their children Kirsty, Gael and Jason Cyril are Cameroonians Seeking Sanctuary in the UK.
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Britain has been strongly criticized for breaching human rights, as the Government’s existing reservation to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in relation to immigration means that children are excluded from its protection.
Yet one of the UK Government’s latest campaigns is Every Child Matters. Its aim is to keep children safe from harm. In its summary it states: “We all share a duty to do everything we can to ensure every child has the chance to fulfill their potential … to prevent children slipping through the net.”
The Refugee Council of Great Britain said of the campaign in 2004: “‘Falling though the gaps’ is a phrase that could have been coined to describe the experience of asylum seeking children in the UK. It is therefore imperative that policies aimed at vulnerable children do not simply repeat previous mistakes - as a society we must rise to the challenge of protecting those hardest to protect.”
In Tony Blair’s introduction to Every Child Matters, he writes that “(some) children’s lives are filled with risk, fear and danger.”
Children of asylum seekers face risk, fear and danger from the very Government that created this campaign.
Claude’s webpage is http://ndeh.wordpress.com/ with the background and media coverage of his case.
Contact: Joanna Petersen 07825 176873
Claude Ndeh, Majolie Ther, Yiah Cyril Jason, Kirsty Michel Tchos and Gael Lionel Atchom - Home Office reference number N1056909.
From NCADC.
