The mother of Yamila, a five-year-old migrant girl who died late on June 29 aboard a helicopter of the Spanish army, is asking for help to travel to France from the Canary Islands to attend her daughter's funeral.
At least four people, including a child and a pregnant woman, have died after their boat capsized near Spain's Canary Islands. More than 40 other migrants were rescued by Spanish authorities.
Care places for unaccompanied child migrants in the English county of Kent, which is where many migrants who cross the Channel first land, have reached capacity. Authorities in Kent have refused to take any more children prompting the British government to house them in a much-criticized facility.
20-year-old Ayoub snuck into Melilla as a minor and has been living in the small Spanish enclave for three years. Originally from a small village near Fez, he says he never wants to go back there "because life in Morocco offers me nothing." He told InfoMigrants he is "stuck" living on the streets and wants "more than anything" to get to the mainland to start a new life.
Morocco is to facilitate the re-entry of stranded unaccompanied minors who recently entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, after thousands crossed the border in May.
A UN agency reported that the bodies of three children washed ashore in Libya last week. The children are believed to have been part of a group of migrants bound for Europe.
The general prosecutor's office in Spain has opened an inquiry into whether any migrants under age 18 were pushed back among those that were forced to leave the Ceuta enclave after the arrival of thousands of people in only a few days from Morocco.
UNICEF is calling on Italy to reform its citizenship rules. The UN children's agency demands a birthright law (also known as "Jus soli"), which would grant Italian citizenship to children from migrant and refugee families.
Italian police have said that in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, on the border with Slovenia, some 75% of those that have gone missing are under age 18 compared with a national average of 50%. The region is a transit area for the "Balkan route" for migrants from the Middle East towards countries in northern Europe.
Migrant children and teenagers in Germany are disproportionately affected by the country's longer than average lockdowns, experts say. They warn that the widening education gap between migrant pupils and their native peers could derail efforts to integrate the hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in Germany.
The photo made headlines worldwide this week: A Spanish Guardia Civil officer, saving a newborn baby from drowning off the coast of Ceuta. Officer Juan Francisco spoke to Spanish media about how he and his colleagues rescued the boy and his mother.
Refugee Rights Europe and Still I Rise presented a new report on the current situation of unaccompanied minors on the island of Samos, Greece, denouncing a "gravely disheartening picture" of their condition.