Unicef and the Lego Foundation have launched an initiative in Jordan to help young Syrian refugee children living in the country and local children. The goal: To help the youngsters learn through play, Lego brick by Lego brick.
Violence against refugee children at the EU's external borders is on the rise, says a new report from Save the Children. The organization's Meike Riebau spoke to DW about what minors experience at the bloc's frontiers.
In the Italian town of Lodi, migrant children were barred from eating at the school canteen following the decision by a right-wing local administration to require foreign parents to prove that they don’t have any extra funds in their home countries before they can access discounted school meals. Is this segregation or just ‘good economics’, as the mayor claims?
Recruitment attempts by extremists, violence, a lack of support — the Save the Children aid organization reports about the plight of people returned to Afghanistan as minors. Programs must be reassessed, the group found.
With his announcement to take in several dozen orphaned Syrian children, Slovakian Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini is making a slight break from other central European countries who have refused refugees.
Police in Barcelona say dozens of migrant children and young people are sleeping in police stations because there is not enough space in the city's reception centers.
Many Syrian refugee children often know their country only as a place of war and blood. That's why a fellow refugee named Jassem wants to teach children about Syrian history and heritage - through puppet shows.
The upcoming school year for Palestinian refugee children could be only one month long, unless states worldwide provide aid money, a UN agency warns. This comes after the US dramatically reduced its donations.
For the past few months, dozens of migrants a day have been streaming into Bosnia, a small impoverished country in the Balkans. The refugees and migrants are crossing Bosnia with the aim of reaching Croatia, the next step on their journey to the European Union. Bosnia says it is overwhelmed and unprepared to deal with this large influx of people, while NGOs say they fear the country is on the brink of a “humanitarian crisis”. InfoMigrants went to the Salakovac reception centre, located in the mountains south of Sarajevo.
Over the last week, controversy was sparked over U.S. President Donald Trump's policy of separating migrant children from their children at the US border with Mexico and putting those children in detention. Does such a policy exist in European countries?
The UN children fund UNICEF said there are 30 million children worldwide who have been displaced by conflict, the highest number since World War II. The organization is calling on world leaders to intensify protection measures for minors.
This year, more than ten pupils at Surrey Square Primary School are in the process of acquiring British nationality, an expensive and difficult process. Seeing the strain this puts on families, the school and its community have started speaking out about the high price of citizenship and other severe British immigration policies.