Tunis/Tunisia — Migrant children in Tunisia need emergency care mechanisms but also medium- and long-term solutions that Tunisia is struggling to implement, said the organisation "Terre d'asile Tunisie" in a document announcing the organisation to hold an international online conference on children and migration in the Maghreb region on June 25-26.

They are children aged between 14 and 18 of very diverse nationalities, some of whom have fled Libya, says Terre d'asile Tunisie.

Although the Tunisian legal framework protects all children without distinction of nationality, migrant minors remain in a legal void between child protection and the law on foreigners, according to the same source.

According to Terre d'asile Tunisie, the situation of migrant children in Tunisia has not been the subject of a specific vision in the draft national migration strategy.

The colloquium will bring together numerous representatives of civil society organisations in Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Morocco who will speak on issues pertaining to the problems encountered by migrant children in the Maghreb region.