UN: Refugee Children in Europe Severely Traumatized

The United Nations Children’s Fund is appealing for $14 million to assist increasing numbers of refugee and migrant children currently on the move in Europe. According to UNICEF, an average of 19,000 children, many escaping conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are arriving in the European Union every month, and one in every four of these children is an asylum seeker. Between January and July, it says 133,000 children have sought asylum in the European Union, an 80 percent...

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