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This report from UNICEF highlights the many dangers, risks, and challenges faced by unaccompanied refugee and migrant children travelling to Europe on their own to escape conflict, poverty, or other forms of oppression. The report lists key principles in protecting unaccompanied refugee and migrant children, outlines facts at a glance, and offers a brief description of the current crises in a number of countries, including Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, and Somalia. The report also shares the stories and voices of refugee children themselves.
Through the voices of children, parents and staff working in the region, this report by Save the Children presents a glimpse into the struggles faced by refugee and displaced children and families from Syria. The report is primarily based on children’s stories as told to Save the Children in urban areas in Lebanon and in camps and urban areas in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Drawings and other playful sessions were used with the children to help them tell stories of their everyday lives without the negative impact a deep interview might have.
The report highlights…
According to this press release from Save the Children, thousands of families are fleeing to dirty overcrowded refugee camps in Syria.
In this article from NEWSok, Zaidoon Khalaf shares his experiences while attempting to reunify with his family Germany. Originally from Iraq, Khalaf, a Yazidi was forced to flee northern Iraq. Of his last days in Iraq, he says, "I stil hear the children screaming for water when ISIS burned the people to death." Zaidoon is currently in Greece in "protective custody."