children migrants

Migrant girls and boys attend soccer school on weekends where they receive support to improve their socialization and have more opportunities for integration into their host communities.
IOM Costa Rica/Allen Ulloa

More children than ever before live as migrants or refugees, outside their birth countries – UNICEF

27 August 2021
Migrants and Refugees

More girls and boys than ever are on the move, with 35.5 million having lived outside their country of birth in 2020 and an additional 23.3 million displaced internally, according to a new report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published on Friday.

Colombian youth worker Mayerlin Vegara Perez has been named UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award Laureate 2020.
© UNHCR/Nicolo Filippo Rosso

Top humanitarian award winner ‘nothing short of heroic’: UN refugee chief 

1 October 2020
Migrants and Refugees

An educator and rights defender who has spent more than 20 years rescuing exploited and trafficked children in Colombia, represents “the best of us”, the UN refugee chief said on Thursday, as she was named the winner of this year’s Nansen Refugee Award.