International Save the Children Alliance
Europe Group
What is the Save the Children Europe Group?
Save the Children Europe Group is a network of Save the Children organisations working in eight European Union (EU) states and four non-EU states. Like other Save the Children organisations, its members work with and for children in their own countries and abroad.
The principle of children's rights lies at the heart of the Save the Children Europe Group. Save the Children Europe Groups’s aim is to help further children's rights in Europe and elsewhere by promoting children's interests in European policy making , funding and programmes.
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The Brussels Office
Save the Children Europe Group has an advocacy office in Brussels and works towards its goals by conducting research and lobbying the EU institutions.
Save the Children Europe Group also works with other nongovernmental organisations (NGO networks) in the fields of social policy, development, migration/asylum, and poverty.
What's new in Brussels?
Save the Children's Conference
Addressing the Protection Gap for Unaccompanied and Separated Children in the EU: Role of the Stockholm Programme
Save the Children held a conference in Brussels on September 15 in advance of the JHA Council discussions on September 21 discussing the situation of unaccompanied minors in EU policy and the role of the Stockholm Programme. At the conference, we presented joint recommendations from Save the Children, UNHCR, UNICEF, Human Rights Watch and the Separated Children in Europe Programme on EU action in the field. At the subsequent JHA Council on Monday September 21, EU Member States have agreed that the European Commission should prepare an EU action plan on unaccompanied minors to be presented early 2010 during the Spanish EU Presidency, for whom the issue will be a priority. Read more on our conference and the recommendations here.