Join us this evening for the screening of 4 short documentaries and a community discussion on migrant children. To celebrate World Children’s Day, we will come together to talk about children’s rights, specifically those who are migrants, refugees, without citizenship and/or stateless.
We will be showing 4 short documentaries on migrant children.
– ‘A Life On Hold’ follows Somali refugee Omar, who was forced to leave Somalia at 13 years old because of war.
– ‘The House is not There’ is an animated video about Henry, who was a child soldier in El Salvador.
– Finally, two Minsija videos, a collaboration between MaltaToday, MCAST and Moviment Graffitti, tell the stories of Alex who was born in Sudan and fled to Malta at the age of 7 and 17-year-old Joseph who was born in Malta but is still stateless.
Millions of people worldwide are stateless, and many among them are children. This means they are not recognised by any country, they are not provided with birth certificates, and they are denied access to education, legal employment, health, etc. According to 2023 numbers, over 170 people in Malta are stateless and half of them are children.
This evening we will have a community discussion that we hope will help in pressuring the Maltese government to take action and enforce the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and international law, and take measures that allow migrant children to live a dignified life.