Contact us at info@repatriatethechildren.org or Telegram @RepatriateTheChildren
Children can never be held accountable for their parents actions. When will they be brought home?
Repatriate the Children is a children’s rights organization existing to raise awareness of children being detained in northeast Syria, and to contribute to knowledge-based decision making where humanitarian principles, rule of law, and global security are united.
RTC operates with three autonomous national branches - Sweden, Denmark, and Canada - and has been an integral actor in the first instances of repatriations from the camps in Northeast Syria.
We condemn ISIS ideology, acts and everything that is linked to violent extremism. Children must be protected from indoctrination and radicalization to violent extremist movements and environments. Children have the right to life, survival and development. All foreign governments need to take responsibility for their citizens.
© Rena Effendi
Repatriate the Children's function is to support, advise and provide knowledge for relatives of children, for governments and other public sector authorities, for politicians and decision-makers, for non-profit organizations, and for the media.
RTC advocates for the children languishing in the prison camps in Northeast Syria, supports the families awaiting their return, and collaborates with the international community to bring these children home.
We also work with the reception and re-integration of families that have been brought home. The main goal is that no child shall grow up in armed conflict, or have their childhood influenced by violent extremism.
© Rena Effendi
Around 8000 third-country national children and mothers are left behind and still live under disastrous humanitarian conditions in detention camps in Northeast Syria. They must be brought home.
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The repatriation calls for reception strategies that are humane, rights-based, and practically effective. Over the past several years, many returnee families have been repatriated to a range of countries, offering a growing body of experience. These lessons can support the development of more coordinated, sensitive, and sustainable approaches to reception, reintegration, and rehabilitation.
Drawing from experiences, RTC can provide a framework of best practices to states and communities in managing returnees’ reception, with emphasis on protecting children, maintaining family unity, and preventing future radicalization.
© Rena Effendi
It is a matter not only of justice, law, and human dignity, but also an obligation to relieve Syrians of this war legacy as they rebuild their society.
The international community can contribute to preventing more children from becoming victims of armed conflict in Syria, Iraq, or elsewhere. There is an urgent need for a Global Humanitarian Coalition to Defeat ISIS to conduct civilian-centered action and build upon the hard-fought military gains.
© Rena Effendi