children

• Greece

One year after a fire destroyed the Moria refugee camp, living conditions in the facility on Lesbos are still preventing children from having access to normal schooling and a safe environment – yet both are crucial for their development.

• Afghanistan

The organization Save The Children reports that some 80,000 minors have abandoned their homes since the start of June to flee violence. The organization warned on August 2 that they are in "dire need" of food, shelter and medical care.

• Italy

A new report by Save The Children Italy revealed that in 2020, the national anti-trafficking system had 2,040 victims of trafficking in its care, 716 of whom were new cases that emerged during the year. The majority of cases are women, and Nigeria was the leading country of origin.

• Afghanistan
• Austria

The brutal murder of a 13-year-old girl in Austria is at the center of a political debate on deportations to Afghanistan. Rights groups have accused the government of instrumentalizing the crime.

• France

In France a biometric system is increasingly being used to register young migrants who want to be recognized as unaccompanied minors. Aid groups worry this will result in more young minors being sent directly to detention centers and inaccurate assessments.

• France
• Iran
• Norway

Iranian toddler Artin Irannezhad and his family died after the boat they were in capsized in the English Channel in October 2020. His dead body washed up on the southwest coast of Norway months later. This is his story.

• Ceuta & Melilla
• Morocco
• Spain

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.

• Ceuta & Melilla
• Morocco
• Spain

The Spanish government is hoping some of its mainland regions will agree to take on some of the more than 1,500 unaccompanied minors who arrived in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on the African continent, over the last few days.

• Afghanistan
• Sweden

A special law in Sweden gives young Afghans six months after they finish school to find a job – or return to their home country. The move is part of a tightening of asylum policy.

• Syria

Almost one in five of recorded suicide attempts and deaths in northwest Syria are by children. The overall number of suicides in the area has risen sharply over the past year, jumping by 86% in the first three months of 2021 in comparison with 2020, according to aid organization Save the Children.

• Ethiopia

UNICEF has denounced that over one million people have been displaced in Ethiopia's Tigray region. Fighting is continuing after the Ethiopian government's military offensive started on November 4, 2020.

• Italy

UNICEF and Save the Children said that in the four months that their joint border program has been active, they have provided assistance to more than 130 families and 570 unaccompanied minors in Ventimiglia and Lampedusa.