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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.

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.

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

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23 December 2021

Two children die and another two still missing in deadly shipwrecks off Libya’s coast

From Lana Wreikat Acting Special Representative, UNICEF Libya

a family gathered for food

24 February 2021

Migrants & their support groups review priorities

Consultations on priorities of migrant women, children and youth in the Arab States