In this new report, UNICEF notes that nearly 50 million children have migrated across borders or have been forcibly displaced. The report also states that migrating and displaced children are at the most risk for some of the worst forms of abuse and harm, and supporting displaced and migrant children is a shared responsibility. Based on the findings of the report, UNICEF has established six goals and suggestions for the future: 1) Protect child refugees and migrants, particularly unaccompanied children, from exploitation and violence; 2) End the detention of children seeking refugee status or migrating 3) Keep families together as the best way to protect children and give children legal status 4) Keep all refugee and migrant children learning and give them access to health and other quality services; 5) Press for action on the underlying causes of large scale movements of refugees and migrants; 6) Promote measures to combat xenophobia, discrimination and marginalization in countries of transit and destination. The report emphasizes that the story of migrants is a global story, not a story from a single perspective. Nearly 1 in 200 children in the world is a child refugee. Nearly 1 in 3 children living in a country outside the country of their birth is a refugee. There are twice as many refugees in 2015 than there were in 2005. This report provides data and legal frameworks on children migrant from both a global and continent-by-continent perspective.
