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Context:   UN lays down guidelines to protect children displaced by climate change

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• Nearly 10 million children were displaced due to weather-related shocks in 2020 alone, according to UN reports
• United Nations-backed agencies have issued guidelines to provide the first-ever global policy framework to protect children displaced due to climate change, according to UN website.
• The Guiding Principles for Children on the Move in the Context of Climate Changecontain a set of nine principles that address the unique vulnerabilities of children who have been uprooted. The guidelines cover both internal as well cross-border migrations
• The new guidelines launched, aim to protect and empower children forced to flee their homes due to climate-related emergencies.
• The land-mark guidelines were launched by the International Organisation for Migration, the UN Children's Fund, Georgetown University and the United Nations University.
• The climate emergency has and will continue to have profound implications for human mobility. Its impacts will be most severe with particular segments of our communities such as children; we cannot endanger future generations.
• Every day, rising sea levels, hurricanes, wildfires and failing crops are pushing more and more children and families from their homes.
• The guiding principles provide national and local governments, international organisations, and civil society groups with a foundation to build policies that protect children’s rights. 
• In 2006, UNICEF and IOM had signed a Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU) defining the main areas of cooperation between the two agencies in humanitarian settings.
• The well-established operational relationship responding to the pressing issues facing migrant children worldwide has been further strengthened since that time.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/un-lays-down-guidelines-to-protect-children-displaced-by-climate-change-83964

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