ACERWC African Committee of Experts on the Rights & Welfare of the Child Those children who have left their place of habitual residence and are either on the way towards a new destination or have already reached such a destination. A child [on the move] can move across State borders, or within the country. S/he can be on the move alone, or in a group with family members, other adults and/or children, known or unknown previously to the child. Moreover, a distinction can be made among the various children on the move, based on the reasons behind such movement. The four categories concerned are: a. Internally displaced persons; b. Asylum seekers and refugees; c. Migrants (i.e., for economic reasons or due to climate change, both internally and across borders); d. Trafficked persons.6 A former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, Jorge Bustamante, also defined children on the move as: [M]igrant children taking an active part in the migration process, particularly at the passage and arrival states in countries of transit and destination. They may be found, inter alia, migrating with their family members or independently, to seek opportunities at both the educational and employment levels. They may also be found entering host countries to rejoin migrant members or the family, being relocated or sent by families to stay with relatives or friends in third countries or, as the Special Rapporteur has documented, sent by family members to find work abroad and send part of their earnings home.7 Save the Children International describes children on the move as: Those children moving for a reason, voluntarily or involuntarily, within or between countries, with or without their parents or other caregivers and whose movement might place them at risk (or at an increased risk) of economic or sexual exploitation, abuse, neglect or violence.8 Literature on children on the move9 also identifies the term in French, as ‘un enfant mobile.’ The translation of the explanation of the term in English identifies children on the move as: A child, who having left the place where he or she used to live, lives away for a significant period in terms of the change that occurs in his or her living conditions or identity.10 6 7 8 9 10 Dottridge M, What Can You Do to Protect Children on the Move (November 2012) Terre Des Hommes p 22. Available at <http://destination-unknown.org/wp-content/uploads/Handbook-Children-On-The-MoveWEB.pdf> (last accessed on 30 March 2018). Bustamante J, ‘Migration and the International Protection Afforded to Children’ in Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights including the Right to Development, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants Human Rights Council, A/HRC/11/7 para 52. Available at <http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/11session/ A.HRC.11.7.pdf> (last accessed on 30 March 2018) Dottridge M, (n 6 above). As above. Dottridge states in French, ‘[U]n enfant mobile est un enfant qui, ayant quitté son lieu de vie habituel,en vit éloigné durant une période significative en termes de transformation de ses conditions de vie et de son identité.’ See Dottridge M, (n 6 above). p 23. 10