52% of Afghan refugees in Pakistan are children
UNHCR reported in early June that 52% of the 1.3 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are children, after it conducted a study on the population inside the country.
UNHCR reported in early June that 52% of the 1.3 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are children, after it conducted a study on the population inside the country.
A playroom for children between the ages of three and 14 has been inaugurated in the hotspot of Lampedusa to provide a distraction after their terrible journey by sea to reach Italy.
A total of 3,589 children have disappeared in Italy so far this year, the Italian government said on International Missing Children's Day on Wednesday. Only one third of those missing are Italian nationals.
A military doctor and her young daughter were reportedly separated during the evacuation from Mariupol, Ukraine. On social media, Ukrainians have called for the release of the woman from alleged Russian custody, so she can be reunited with her child.
Over 1,200 unaccompanied migrant children in Greece have been relocated across 13 European countries as a result of Greece's Voluntary Relocation Program, which now counts two years of operations. Meanwhile, the number of unaccompanied children who sought asylum in the European Union in 2021 jumped by 72%.
In Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, millions of children face extreme food scarcity and lack clean drinking water, according to UNICEF. The Horn of Africa is currently facing its worst drought in decades.
Save the Children and a juvenile court in the Sicilian city of Catania have signed a protocol to improve the hosting system and the protection of foreign unaccompanied minors. Nearly a quarter of unaccompanied migrant children and teens present in Italy are hosted in the region of Sicily.
German schools want to make sure that Ukrainian refugee children do not lose out on education. But, after two years of the coronavirus pandemic, the system is already overstretched.
UNICEF has released a report shedding light on the negative impacts of the pandemic on migrant women in Italy. It said discrimination already linked to gender and migration, combined with the challenges imposed by COVID-19, had increased the likelihood that migrant women in Italy will suffer violence.
Bologna could pave the way for Italian citizenship granted to foreigners born in Italy. The proposed changes could affect more than 11,000 minors.
UN peacekeepers in Cyprus have said that three-year-old twins lost in the buffer zone dividing the Mediterranean island are safe. Over the past few years, thousands of migrants and refugees have crossed the buffer zone into Cyprus from the Turkish-administered northern part of the island.
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.