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Migrant and refugee crisis

A boy who is an unaccompanied minor looks across the beach in Trabia, Italy, on May 14, 2016. He lives at Rainbow, a government administered centre for unaccompanied boys that provides shelter, food, education and legal help for unaccompanied asylum seekers in Trabia, Sicily. Of the 150,000 migrants and refugees who arrived in Italy in 2015, the vast majority of people are coming from West Africa.
Press release
14 July 2023
Eleven children die every week attempting to cross the Central Mediterranean Sea migration route – UNICEF
So far in 2023, an estimated 11,600 children made the dangerous crossing. The majority were alone or separated from their parents.
A girl stands in front, her mother behind her holding a baby. Inside a tent, they hold open the door, looking out with anticipation.
Press release
15 June 2023
Number of displaced children reaches new high of 43.3 million
The mounting number highlights a global failure to address the drivers of displacement and provide long-term solutions for children on the move, UNICEF warns ahead of World Refugee Day
Maysaa, 13, and her six-year-old sister, Renad, talk with a UNICEF staff member in their shelter in Stamo village, Lattakia governorate, Syria. Renad holds a drawing she made earlier that day.
Campaign
15 March 2023
Syria 12
The impact of twelve years of conflict in Syria on children and childhood
UNICEF Black Banner
Statement
23 September 2022
UNICEF deeply saddened by death toll from boat that sank off the coast of Syria coming from Lebanon
From Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
Woman carries a water bucket in one hand and her child in the other
Flagship report
02 February 2022
Prospects for children in 2022: a global outlook
As we enter a third year of the pandemic, what can be done to improve children’s fortunes?

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Syria. A girl looks out from a tent at a refugee camp.
Page
12 January 2022
Syria crisis
After more than a decade of conflict, children continue to pay the heaviest price
A child stands in a room where women and children sleep on old mattresses laid on the floor at a detention centre
Statement
30 April 2021
114 unaccompanied children rescued at sea off the coast of Libya - More than 350 people perish or go missing in the Mediterranean since year began
From Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa and Afshan Khan UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia and Special Coordinator for the Refugee Migrant Response in Europe
Children sitting on the ground
Page
10 March 2019
#ChildrenUnderAttack
2018 deadliest year yet for children in Syria as war enters 9th year
Child in a camp
Report
10 March 2019
Syria Crisis Fast Facts
August 2019

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Syria Crisis Fast Facts 2019 (PDF, 1 MB)
Ahmed Helmy taking a selfie with children
Press release
28 November 2018
Actor and UNICEF Ambassador Ahmed Helmy meets Syrian refugee children in Jordan