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This article from the Washington Post tells the stories of families who were separated at the U.S. border with Mexico due to the U.S. "zero tolerance policy," then reunited, and then separated again by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "A federal court ordered the government to reunite the thousands of families separated under President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy. But many of those parents were released from detention without any legal status in the United States. They were back with their children, but immediately subject to deportation — and re-separation," says the…
"The US government’s policy of separating migrant families at the border has continued to wreak havoc and inflict suffering in the final months of Donald Trump’s presidency, with parents still missing, reunifications blocked and reunited families struggling to pick up the pieces of their lives," says this article from the Guardian. The article describes the "cruelty and chaos" of the zero tolerance party and the actions that advocates are asking the next administration to take to reunify families and provide legal status and protection for all families.
"The Government of Uganda, through the World Bank-funded Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP) project, is taking preventative action to combat violence against [refugee] children by creating an environment for children’s empowerment and participation," says this news release from the World Bank. The projest will "support investments in 14 refugee hosting districts through three types of subprojects: (i) social and economic services and infrastructures, including health, education and WASH services, (ii) sustainable environment and natural resources management; and…
The charity Barnardo's has released its archive of photos and testimonials from black children and teenagers taken into the organization's residential homes up to 120 years ago. A selection of the photos and stories appear in this article.
Libyan municipalities have now begun banning militias from using children under the age of 18.
This article shares the stories of girl child soldiers in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and their experiences of sexual abuse and exploitation and reintegrating into community and family life.
Children orphaned by Boko Haram Islamists are overcrowding the city of Maiduguri, Nigeria, whose population has doubled to over two million due to those seeking shelter from the conflict. With no care, services, or education, thousands of children are slipping through the cracks.
Turkey has opened a vast centre, termed "Orphans City," dedicated to housing and educating orphans from war-torn Syria.
Alaa al-Din Obeid, an orphanage located in Azaz, near Aleppo and the Turkish border, serves seven hundred Syrian boys and girls. Reported as the only children's on the northern countryside of Aleppo, the facility is becoming overcrowded, with 300 boys live permanently in the orphanage hopes to build a special residental ward for girls. The orphanage director reports a need for additional services and professionals to care for the growing number of children traumatized by the war in Syria.
In new annual report by Ombudsman for Children, Sweden was deemed inadequate in providing support for refugee children.