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The issue of children affected by mobility (Who are we advocating for?)
Posted by Letswalo L Marobane on 17 January 2024, 13:20 SAST
According to the Mapping of Children on the Move in Africa2 , developed by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in 2018, «in total, between 2015 and 2017 approximately 18.2 million children moved on the African continent. [...] As the number of undocumented movements (e.g. seasonal movements in spaces allowing for the free movement of people) is not taken into account, this means that the scale of movement may in fact be much higher.»
Children’s mobility in West Africa is motivated by multiple factors: economic reasons, education, social context, family and domestic violence, conflict and insecurity, climate change or food insecurity are the main ones.
