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On 26 September 2023, a child and his father, migrants from Tunisia, sit near Italian Red Cross tents at the ‘hotspot’ reception centre on the island of Lampedusa, Italy.

29 September 2023

Number of unaccompanied children crossing deadly Central Mediterranean Sea migration route to Italy increases by 60 per cent – UNICEF

Deaths and disappearances on the Central Mediterranean route tripled this summer compared to last

A woman carrying a child with raindrops starting to fall.

07 September 2023

Number of migrant children moving across Latin America and the Caribbean hits new record amid violence, instability and climate change

One in four people on the move in Latin America and the Caribbean is a child, the highest proportion globally

Garry Conille, Regional Director or UNICEF for Latin America and the Caribbean in Panama walking with a migrant family

07 September 2023

UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Director Garry Conille's remarks on the Child Alert on child migration in the region at a Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

Children in need of support as wildfires rage across Greece

Since July 2023, multiple wildfires across the country have claimed the lives of 27 people, including two children

UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM: deepest condolences for those involved in yet another shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea

Coordinated search and rescue mechanisms and safer and legal pathways for migration and asylum needed

Pregnant mother and toddler among those killed yesterday in yet another tragic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, with more missing – UNICEF

Statement by UNICEF Country Coordinator for the National Response in Italy, Nicola Dell’Arciprete

Panama. A mother from Haiti carries one of her children near the Lajas Blancas Migrant Temporary Reception Centre.

Child alert: Child migration in Latin America and Caribbean

The region is home to one of the world’s largest and most complex child migration crises.

Files available for download (3)

Full Child Alert (English) (PDF, 2 MB)

Full Child Alert (Spanish) (PDF, 2 MB)

Full Child Alert (French) (PDF, 2 MB)

3 Rohingya girls inside the Mukti learning center. Pahartoli-1/2, Camp-4, Ukhia, Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh.

UNICEF: Against the odds, children begin the new school year in Rohingya refugee camps

Despite fires burning down learning centres and Cyclone Mocha’s wrath, a record 300,000 Rohingya refugee children attend first day of school

A group of Gambian boys survey the ocean from the beach during an outing from a government hot spot–a reception center that doubles as a lodging station for unaccompanied minors in Pozzallo, Sicily, on May 17, 2016. They are frightened to swim, they said, after their harrowing boat journey from Libya.

Children drowning in the world’s inaction’ - UNICEF Geneva Palais briefing note on the increase in children taking the Central Mediterranean Sea migration route

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Global Lead on Migration and Displacement Verena Knaus – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

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.