There are 50 million children in the world who no longer live safely in their homes and in the arms of their parents, of these, over 28 million are constantly fleeing from countries in conflict.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousThere are 50 million children in the world who no longer live safely in their homes and in the arms of their parents, of these, over 28 million are continually fleeing from countries in conflict.
The new UNICEF Report "Uprooted: the growing crisis for refugee and migrants children" ", once again shows an overview of childhood denied from war and hunger.
Millions move in the hope of a better future and a safer life. The number of refugee children has risen to 10 million, while 1 million are asylum seekers, another 17 million are small displaced people still remaining in their countries of origin.
“Indelible images of individual children - such as the body lying on the beach of Kurdish child Aylan or Omran Daqneesh, stunned and bloodied in an ambulance after his home was destroyed - shocked the world. However, let us remember that the photograph of every single boy or girl represents millions of other children in danger ", recalls the director of Unicef, Anthony Lake.
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Children with different stories who have in common, the need for humanitarian assistance, who have learned too early what it means be afraid, a feeling very well known especially to those who flee alone, to cross borders. As stated in the Report, in 2015 they were over 100 thousand unaccompanied minors who have applied for asylum in over 78 countries, three times the number compared to 2014.
“Refugees and migrants face a range of risks ranging from drowning during the crossing to malnutrition, from dehydration to kidnapping, rape and at worst murder. When they arrive in other countries they often face discrimination and xenophobia, ”the report said.
Adolescents and children are therefore exposed to constant dangers because they lack documents and identity. Children who sometimes they disappear into thin air and which come mainly from Syria and Afghanistan (45%).
Our groundbreaking report on global childhood migration and displacement: https://t.co/n92qsMlSd0 #ChildrenUprooted pic.twitter.com/TmgRA3HXtJ
- UNICEF (@UNICEF) September 7, 2016
La Turkey on the other hand, it is the State that hosts the largest number of recent refugees and according to UNICEF, in all probability also the largest number of refugee children in the world.
In proportion to its population, however, it is the Lebanon, the place where one in five inhabitants is a refugee, to better understand, let's take into consideration that for example in Great Britain there is one refugee for every 530 people and in the United States one in 1200.
“We would like all countries to commit themselves to providing concrete measures for these children. The breakdown is not fair, because all the burdens have them either the closest countries or the poorest countries, he said Justin Forsyth, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF.
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Globally 28m children have been forcibly displaced, fleeing conflicts not of their making #ChildrenUprooted pic.twitter.com/Be2HPCbmqw
- UNICEF (@UNICEF) September 7, 2016
Unicef: 6 actions to improve protection and help for refugee and migrant children
“What price will we all pay if we don't guarantee these young people an education and the opportunity to live a normal childhood? How can they contribute positively to society? If they cannot do this, not only will there be no future for them, but their companies will also pay the price ", he admonishes. Lake.
The Report suggests 6 shares to improve protection and help for refugee and migrant children:
1) step up protection from violence and exploitation of refugee and migrant minors, especially unaccompanied ones;
2) end the detention of children who have applied for asylum or who are migrants by introducing a number of alternative solutions;
3) keeping families together and granting them legal recognition;
4) offer all migrant and refugee children educational opportunities and access to quality health care and basic social services;
5) promoting the knowledge of the root causes of mass movements of refugees and migrants and resolving interventions;
6) fight xenophobia, discrimination and marginalization.
Dominella Trunfio
