Their rights have been increasingly violated in armed conflicts. This is not accidental, but due to the decisions of adults, to target children and to ignore their rights to a childhood. Children need special protection to stop them becoming the victims of human rights violations. Adults can give them this protection. Defend Child Refugees When children escape armed conflict and persecution, our Government should protect them, not imprison them .
Children are particularly vulnerable to abuse when they flee armed conflicts and persecution.
Our Government should ensure that such children are protected under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The UK should scrupulously avoid the detention of child asylum seekers. The UK should remove the reservation it has made under Article 22 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, which denies child asylum seekers the Convention's.