EU-Unicef project to protect 20,000 minors in Italy
'Protect', a project promoted by UNICEF and the European Union, has been launched to benefit over 20,000 refugee and migrant children, teens, youths and women in Italy.
'Protect', a project promoted by UNICEF and the European Union, has been launched to benefit over 20,000 refugee and migrant children, teens, youths and women in Italy.
The global charity has called out the EU for its double standards on how it treats Ukrainian refugee children versus children of other nationalities. Save the Children said Europe's treatment of Ukrainian refugees shows that it's possible to offer all children fleeing violence a safe and legal route to safety.
The French artist JR has brought photos of children he met on visits to refugee camps in locations including Rwanda and Greece to Turin in northern Italy. The exhibition runs until July 16.
How refugee children are educated in Germany depends on where they live. And that can have far-reaching consequences.
A four-year-old girl has reached Lampedusa without her family on an overcrowded migrant boat. Her parents and sister were left behind in Tunisia after the boat left in a hurry. A children's rights activist brought attention to the case on social media.
Only 68% percent of refugee children have access to primary school education, and only 37% to secondary school education, according to a new report by UNHCR.
There are more than 6 million migrants and refugees in East Africa and the Horn of Africa, according to UN migration agency IOM. Just over 50% of them are women and girls. Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia all host more than one million foreign citizens. More than 10 million people in the region have been internally displaced.
"We want justice for our daughter," the parents of the five-year-old girl who died on an islet along the Greek-Turkish border have demanded before a Greek court. Greece maintains that the islet where the girl died was "Turkish territory".
A police officer shot a 16-year-old unaccompanied minor several times with a submachine gun in front of a youth welfare facility in the German city of Dortmund. The shooting has prompted protests and questions in Germany.
More than five months after the beginning of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, over 150,000 Ukrainian students are registered in German schools. The news comes as the number of refugees who've fled Ukraine reached the ten million mark this week.
Scotland has started to house Ukrainian refugees who fled the Russian invasion on a cruise ship docked off Edinburgh, the devolved Scottish government has said.
A transit center for Ukrainian refugees in Brussels has hit a record number of residents. Many residents have remained there for several weeks, amid a worsening housing crisis in the Belgian capital.