Nearly 1,600 unaccompanied minors are currently reported as missing in Germany. Nearly 1,000 of them were reportedly aged between 14 and 17 years and just over 600 children were aged 13 and younger.
Unaccompanied migrant minors are living on the streets of Serbia's capital, even in the middle of winter. Their fate is in the hands of an international smuggling ring.
Amid a surge in migrant arrivals to Spain's Canary Islands, authorities are struggling to provide for the needs of over 2,000 unaccompanied minors on the archipelago. InfoMigrants spoke with Save the Children about the children's health, what happens when they turn 18 and why walls against migratory flows don't work.
Having been separated for months, a woman from Ivory Coast and her five-year-old son have been reunited in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia. They were helped by the determination and compassion of a young woman.
2020 has been a difficult year for many people the world over. A global health pandemic, economic problems and even more people displaced than before were just some of the challenges we all faced. But to try and spread a bit of cheer as the year comes to a close, InfoMigrants decided to look back at some of the migrant success stories we reported on in 2020 in the world of work.
A six-episode documentary attempts to give a voice to migrants under the age of 18 in Greece who have witnessed one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time. The web series, named "Through Our Eyes," is sponsored by the NGO Still I Rise.
A Tunisian boy with substantial paralysis was moved to a children's hospital in Rome this week. The seven-year-old had landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa with his father in November.
A Senegalese court has sentenced three fathers to jail after it found that the fathers had pushed their sons to migrate. They were found guilty of "endangering the lives of others."
Mediterranean states France and Morocco have inked a deal on child migrant returns. The text of the agreement on the care of unaccompanied underage migrant children notably calls for "concrete tools" to facilitate the return of minors from France to Morocco.
On December 7, the UK Home Office confirmed that 111 migrants had crossed the Channel to the UK, including five children, one of whom was a baby wearing no shoes or socks. Temperatures on Monday were reported as “near-freezing” and on land hovering at about 1 degree Celsius.
In the early hours of Tuesday, German media reported that 56 migrants were left by the side of the motorway in snowy south-eastern Germany, not far from the Czech border.
Mbaye Babacar Diouf was just 15 when he arrived in Spain after crossing the Atlantic in a small boat to the Canary Islands. On arrival, after receiving care from the Red Cross, he promised himself he would -- one day -- become a nurse. He's achieved that dream and is about to embark on his next challenge -- to become a doctor.