unaccompanied minors

• Malta
• Italy
• Libya

The two NGO rescue vessels "Ocean Viking" and "Sea-Watch 3" now carry a total of more than 800 people on board, all of whom were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend.

• Italy

The humanitarian organization Intersos denounced in a statement that in Rome, hundreds of migrant adolescents are homeless and at risk for abuse. It said the number of unaccompanied minors in transit in the city has been increasing in recent weeks.

• Italy

A reported 48 people have completed a course in Sicily to become tutors for unaccompanied migrant minors, organizers said on July 13. They will support the education and training of foreign minors.

• Libya
• Italy

The Ocean Viking arrived in Sicily on Friday morning to disembark over 500 migrants it has on board. The crew and migrants had been waiting for a week to be assigned a safe port. Food and water were about to run out when they were assigned a port on Thursday evening.

• Greece

More than 4,000 refugees and asylum seekers have been relocated from Greece to other countries in the European Union since April 2020, according to various UN agencies. Meanwhile, the number of refugees and migrants on the Greek islands has fallen from 40,000 to less than 10,000.

• France

Hundreds of homeless migrants and their supporters set up tents in front of the Paris City Hall on Thursday evening to demand better accommodation. Mostly families from sub-Saharan Africa and unaccompanied minors, they pitched their tents as the bells of the building rang at 8pm.

• Italy

80% of young migrants and refugees in Italy surveyed in a poll by UNICEF said they had experienced or witnessed prejudice. To respond to the needs that emerged from the survey, the UN agency has launched a campaign against stereotypes.

• France

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.

• Italy

UNICEF and Italy's National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty (NIHMP/INMP) have signed an agreement to boost safeguarding of the health of minors, women and families from the migrant community.

• United Kingdom

Care places for unaccompanied child migrants in the English county of Kent, which is where many migrants who cross the Channel first land, have reached capacity. Authorities in Kent have refused to take any more children prompting the British government to house them in a much-criticized facility.

• Italy
• Greece
• Bosnia & Herzegovina

A new report published by Oxfam and other NGOs has denounced that underage migrants who have travelled to Europe on their own face obstacles once they turn 18 due to a complicated bureaucracy.

• Spain
• Morocco

The European Parliament recently adopted a resolution in which it rejected "Morocco's use of border control and migration, and unaccompanied minors in particular, as political pressure against a member state of the EU [namely Spain]."