A Belgian court handed a one-year suspended sentence to a police officer over the fatal shooting of a two-year-old migrant girl. The officer shot at a van carrying migrants during a car chase, resulting in the toddler’s death.
The deportation of three girls to Georgia and Armenia has caused controversy and tension in the governing coalition between the green party and conservatives in Austria. Many people criticized the government for expelling children who were considered to be "well integrated", including a 12-year-old girl born in Austria.
Aid workers are increasingly alarmed about the worsening situation of the some 1,500 migrants stuck in northwest Bosnia, hundreds of whom are staying in abandoned buildings and makeshift forest settlements with little access to aid. InfoMigrants spoke with German streetwork doctor Gerhard Trabert about his patients' physical and mental health, a lack of cooperation at the expense of the migrants and what ought to happen next.
Save The Children has warned that almost 10 million children need life-saving assistance in Afghanistan, where conflict is causing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes every year.
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.
Amid the dire situation in the emergency tent camp of Kara Tepe on Lesbos, an Austrian bishop has pleaded for Austria and other EU member states to take in more refugees from the Greek island.
The feared sexual assault of an Afghan toddler in the Kara Tepe tent camp for migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos last week has been confirmed by a forensic examination. While Germany's development minister sharply criticized the living conditions at Kara Tepe, the Greece migration minister defended safety conditions at the camp.
A plane carrying at least 86 asylum seekers, including sick children, arrived in Germany on Thursday as part of the country's pledge to take in migrants from camps in Greece.
The European sea rescue organization SOS Mediterranee says a growing proportion of migrants picked up at sea are under 18 and traveling alone. The journey across the Mediterranean is especially dangerous for children, according to the NGO.
A three-year-old Afghan girl is presumed to have been sexually assaulted in the Kara Tepe tent camp for migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos. Doctors who examined the child reportedly said that her injuries may have been the result of rape.
The trafficking of children has increased in Mali, according to UNHCR, due to conflicts, COVID-19 and deteriorating economic conditions. Children are forced to work in mines and to fight for armed groups; many girls are sexually abused. Among the victims: Refugee and migrant children.
Two aid organizations have criticized the situation for migrants who live in island camps in the Aegean Sea. While Germany's Kindernothilfe condemns the evacuation of PIKPA camp on Lesbos for allegedly being inhumane, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demands safety for migrants on Samos after the fire at the Vathy camp.