A fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning has resulted in the deaths of four people. A four-month-old baby, his three-year-old brother and their parents died when a fire ripped through an abandoned bank squatted by migrants in the center of Barcelona.
A one-year-old baby from Syria has died in a forest in Poland on the Belarusian border, international media said on Thursday. The reports were based on statements from Polish aid workers.
The French association Droit à l'école (Right to School) provides daily classes to foreign unaccompanied minors who have had their minority status rejected and are awaiting their appeal with the children's judge. The 'school for those without a school' provides respite for these young migrants and a chance to integrate them in the national education program.
The French government announced on Wednesday that it will ask the departments to temporarily continue to support young people who have come of age and are dependent on the Aide Sociale à l'Enfance (ASE), the social assistance scheme for children in France.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.