child migrants

An unaccompanied minor deported back to Guatemala by Mexican authorities, is led through Guatemalan immigration to be reunited with her family at La Aurora International Airport, Guatemala City, Guatemala on May 1, 2018.

UNICEF/Tanya Bindra

US and Mexico child deportations drive extreme violence and trauma: UNICEF

16 August 2018

The many life-threatening dangers faced by children from Central America who are being deported from the United States of America and Mexico, are highlighted in a new report from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday, which also draws attention to the traumatic consequences of family separation by migration authorities.

The border crossing point over the Rio Grande, connecting Reynosa, Mexico and McAllen, Texas, USA. August 2016.

UNICEF/Adriana Zehbrauskas

Children ‘as young as one’ involved in US separation of migrant families – UN rights office

5 June 2018

Human Rights

The current policy in the United States of separating “extremely young children” from their asylum-seeker or migrant parents along the country’s southern border “always constitutes a child rights violation”, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.

On 26 August 2015, a distressed child rests over the shoulder of the man carrying him, in the town of Gevgelija, on the border with Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

UNICEF/Tomislav Georgiev

Better data needed to protect children on the move: UN Migration Agency

16 February 2018

Interviews

The UN Migration Agency (IOM) which has joined with partners to call for better data to help protect children on the move, more than 1,200 of whom have died since 2014.

Bronwen Cowley in Geneva has been speaking to IOM spokesperson, Joel Milllman.

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