Unaccompanied Migrant Children Sleeping Outside in Paris

Click to expand Image Unaccompanied migrant children camping at Jules Ferry Park in the 11th district of Paris, July 2020. © 2020 Nicolas Guyonnet/MSF Since June 30, unaccompanied migrant children have been camping in central Paris, stuck in limbo while a judge decides on their fate. Aid organizations, including Médecins Sans Frontières and Utopia 56, set up a tent camp in a Paris park to shelter about a hundred children who have been sleeping on the streets. In order to receive child protection services, these children must be formally recognized as such. But because local authorities…

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