Parliamentarians (MPs) in the British lower house recently repealed a crucial amendment in the Brexit transition agreement which would have allowed unaccompanied minors to rejoin a parent or relative resident in the UK even once the UK has left the EU. The Brexit transition is expected to begin at the end of January. So what will it mean for young migrants?
Eight of those pulled dead from the water were children. The tragedy comes as earlier at least 12 migrants drowned off Greece's western coast.
Several German state governments have said they would be prepared to take in refugee children from Greece. One state, Thuringia, has even suggested it would do so in the face of the refusal in Berlin.
A series of five memorial "stumbling stones" have been placed at five schools in Rome in memory of a 14-year-old Malian student who died on a boat in the Mediterranean with his report card sewn into his pocket.
There are significantly fewer foreign unaccompanied in Italy right now, compared to 2018 and 2017, according to UNICEF. However, the number of untraceable children and adolescents has remained constant, at more than 5,300 in 2019.
The Italian education ministry has decided to relaunch the observatory for the integration of foreign students and inter-cultural exchange after a two-year break. The goal: to fight prejudices, and to boost multiculturalism in Italian schools.
Save The Children has urged Italy to reform its citizenship law for children from migrant families. There are hundreds of thousands of young people who were born in Italy, but don't have citizenship because their parents were migrants.
A German nonprofit is tutoring children in underserved communities through an innovative live-in mentoring program. The Duisburg-based organization is the winner of this year's prize for civic engagement in Germany.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a new scheme on Sunday designed to protect unaccompanied migrant minors who have arrived in Greece. The scheme, called "No Child Alone," is designed to protect such children "from exploitation and criminality."
Children make up over 45% of the people living in and around Greece's infamous Moria camp. These thousands of children are living in unbearable conditions and with very few facilities. InfoMigrants takes a closer look at some of the basic amenities that are there for Moria's children.
A global study by the United Nations has called on countries to end the detention of child migrants. Hundreds of thousands of children are held in immigration detention in more than 80 countries worldwide. The study claims this violates children's rights and does serious harm to their physical and mental health.
A total of 70,000 unaccompanied minors entered Italy by sea between 2014 and 2018. About 60,000 of them have now become legal adults and need support in their transition to adulthood, according to a new report published by UNICEF, UNHCR, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).