Paris-Sana
Several human rights organizations called on the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to open an investigation into the treatment of unaccompanied foreign minors in France, considering that their rights are subjected to grave and systematic violations.
Utopia 56, one of the associations that supports this measure, stated in a statement quoted by AFP that “the referral made by the French Council of Child Rights Associations was considered acceptable as the associations demand the UN committee to open an investigation into the violations committed by France, which is a signatory to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child. “.
The many foreign teenagers who arrive every year in France are often reported as having reached the age of majority and are therefore not covered by child protection laws during the exams related to controversial orthopedic tests.
Utopia 56 confirmed that these unaccompanied minors who are under the care of the French administrations are also suffering from unequal treatment inside French territory.
Utopia 56 condemned in its statement the lack of financial, human and material resources that the state allocates to administrations and the absence of an effective national authority for oversight or coordination.
And in the event that an investigation is actually opened, what the United Nations will reach will not force France to amend its policy, as Jan Manzi, founder of "Utopia 56", explained to AFP, but he hoped that it would be binding on the French state, at least in terms of form.