Refugee Children Left Vulnerable in Europe
Children now account for over one third of refugees and migrants crossing the Eastern Mediterranean, reports UNICEF; and taken together, women and children account for nearly 60% of those on the move in Europe, a sharp increase from summer 2015 when men constituted 73% of migrant flows and children less than 10%. Perhaps more than anything, it has been the images of drowned refugee children – foremost among them three-year-old Alan Kurdi – that have outraged international observers and galvanized public opinion around refugee protection and resettlement in a number of Western countries, most notably with Germany. Indeed, as the number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean has grown rapidly over the past year, so have the proportion of vulnerable children, many unaccompanied, making the journey.
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