The United Kingdom has announced that it will be introducing measures to stop adult-age asylum seekers from posing as underage minors. The government said it would use new scientific assessments to determine the actual age of applicants.
As another body was discovered in the Channel on Friday, the British government is facing mounting criticism over its handling of Channel migrants both as they attempt to cross and after they arrive in the UK.
A new report by UNICEF Italy showed that the Covid pandemic slowed inclusion for young migrants but also highlighted their resilience in the face of challenge.
German police found 16 migrants, mostly minors, in an articulated lorry in the southern state of Middle Franken (Bavaria) on Saturday, November 13. The migrants are believed to be from Afghanistan.
In the latest rescue mission by the humanitarian medical charity MSF, 140 of the 367 migrants rescued were unaccompanied minors. Many of them remain affected by their experiences crossing the deadliest migration route in the world, say MSF.
The Spanish government has approved a reform that will make it easier for migrants who arrived in the country as unaccompanied minors to receive residence and work permits. A total of 15,000 youths will reportedly benefit from this reform.
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 Geo Barents rescue ship, run by the medical charity Doctors without Borders (MSF), docked in a Sicilian port on Wednesday and disembarked the 60 migrants it had rescued just over a week earlier.
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.
Fifteen-year-old Younes from Morocco embarked upon an unusual journey to escape poverty. He swam over three hours to reach the Spanish enclave of Melilla, only to have his dreams shattered. This is the story of Younes – the boy who risked his life, and his hopes, in the Mediterranean.
A Ceuta court has upheld a suspension for the repatriation of nine migrant minors to Morocco. They had arrived in the Spanish enclave in May without any adults accompanying them.
Following legal action by rights campaigners a Spanish court on Monday suspended the repatriation to Morocco of a group of unaccompanied minors who crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in May.