صحافة بلادي صحيفة إلكترونية مغاربية متجددة على مدار الساعة تعنى بشؤون المغرب الجزائر ليبيا موريتانيا تونس
Tunisia– She calledInternational Organization for the Protection of Children in the MediterraneanThe Tunisian authorities called for urgent intervention to protect children living on the streets, following the spread of photos and video clips that showed children sleeping on the sidewalks in a number of public spaces in the capital, most notably around Barcelona Square, which sparked a widespread wave of concern and interaction.
The organization explained, in an official correspondence addressed to the competent authorities, that the appearance of children in such living conditions requires immediate action from the institutions charged with protecting children, with the aim of identifying them, determining their social and familial conditions, and ensuring the provision of the necessary care for them.
She stressed that protecting children represents a constitutional, legal and international obligation that falls on the Tunisian state, noting that national legislation obliges the competent authorities to intervene whenever a child is at risk or threatened on the health, psychological or social level.
The organization warned of the dangers that children living on the streets may face, including exploitation, violence, human trafficking, organized begging, and dropping out of school, considering that the continuation of these conditions requires the adoption of urgent measures to guarantee their safety and basic rights.
It called for implementing field interventions to count the children concerned, assess their needs, and provide safe shelter centers and health, psychological, social, and educational services, in addition to opening social and judicial investigations to reveal the reasons that led to their presence on the street, and to determine any potential responsibilities related to neglect or exploitation.
The organization also called for a comprehensive evaluation of child protection policies in Tunisia, and the development of an integrated national plan to confront the phenomenon of street children, which includes clear goals and follow-up mechanisms that ensure reducing this phenomenon and protecting children from various forms of fragility.
The organization concluded its call by emphasizing that documenting the suffering of children through social networking sites is not enough, stressing that the priority should be for the intervention of state institutions in order to provide the necessary protection and care for children before their conditions worsen.
Source:“My press”
