UNICEF: Ten times more child refugees than a decade ago

[Daneman]

The number of children seeking asylum in Europe has increased ten-fold since 2008 with many travelling unaccompanied, according to a new report by the United Nation’s Children Fund, UNICEF.

The “A Child is a Child” report found that 92 percent of children who took the dangerous sea passage from North Africa to Italy in 2016 and the first two months of 2017 were travelling alone, up from 75 percent in 2015.

UNICEF's chief lawyer in Sweden and programme officer, Christina Heilborn, told Swedish Radio that the majority of girls arriving in Italy had been sexually abused on the journey.

"This is about rape, abuse, and forced labour – and more and more children are reporting this," she said. "They tell horrific stories. Many of the children have also been locked up in containment, effectively imprisoned."

She cited the example of a 13-year-old girl she met in Sicily who had started selling herself for sex to survive after being raped and abused on her way to Europe.

"The smugglers are extremely dominant in the children's lives, even if it looks different depending on whether they are physically present or not. But there is always a threat hanging over them that there are debts to be paid back, and a fear that is very obvious."

Heilborn said that the changes in the asylum laws granting only temporary residence permits, which make it more difficult for families to be reunited, is forcing greater numbers of people to take dangerous journeys to join their relatives in Sweden.

"Unaccompanied youth and children are forced out onto the dangerous boats in the Mediterranean," she said.

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel...rtikel=6699039

If the majority have been sexually abused, what kind of men are coming with them?! This should seriously warrant stopping men from coming!

[Rustedsaint]

Quite afew of them are also adults pretending to be youths.
even then I'm wondering why their are so many unaccompanied children, they can't all be ophans

[Theinquisition]

Quite afew of them are also adults pretending to be youths.
even then I'm wondering why their are so many unaccompanied children, they can't all be ophans

Exactly. Hit the nail on the head

[satimy]

Migration means less of a chance of things getting better in areas where they are fleeing

[Deleted]

our countries need to start protecting europe from these invaders, they cause trouble!!!

[Deleted]

All the poor 14 year old kids just like

[sarahtasher]

Ah, the usual edgelords complaining of refugees from the war their ''bomb away'' worldview help creating.

What do you think will happen with the ammunition sold by your GOD POTUS to the Saudis ?

(They are going to hit anything but the Houthis rebels, that's for sure...)

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The number of children seeking asylum in Europe has increased ten-fold since 2008 with many travelling unaccompanied, according to a new report by the United Nation’s Children Fund, UNICEF.

The “A Child is a Child” report found that 92 percent of children who took the dangerous sea passage from North Africa to Italy in 2016 and the first two months of 2017 were travelling alone, up from 75 percent in 2015.

UNICEF's chief lawyer in Sweden and programme officer, Christina Heilborn, told Swedish Radio that the majority of girls arriving in Italy had been sexually abused on the journey.

"This is about rape, abuse, and forced labour – and more and more children are reporting this," she said. "They tell horrific stories. Many of the children have also been locked up in containment, effectively imprisoned."

She cited the example of a 13-year-old girl she met in Sicily who had started selling herself for sex to survive after being raped and abused on her way to Europe.

"The smugglers are extremely dominant in the children's lives, even if it looks different depending on whether they are physically present or not. But there is always a threat hanging over them that there are debts to be paid back, and a fear that is very obvious."

Heilborn said that the changes in the asylum laws granting only temporary residence permits, which make it more difficult for families to be reunited, is forcing greater numbers of people to take dangerous journeys to join their relatives in Sweden.

"Unaccompanied youth and children are forced out onto the dangerous boats in the Mediterranean," she said.

http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel...rtikel=6699039

If the majority have been sexually abused, what kind of men are coming with them?! This should seriously warrant stopping men from coming!

Your concern looks so, so, so genuine.

[Somewhatconcerned]

How many boogymen do you guys need? I swear the right tries to act so tough but they are the most scared mothafackas I've ever seen in my entire life.

[Deleted]

All the poor 14 year old kids just like

how someone can think he is 14??

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How many boogymen do you guys need? I swear the right tries to act so tough but they are the most scared mothafackas I've ever seen in my entire life.

they bring trouble where they go if you dont turn a blind eye to it you will see too

[Shinra1]

our countries need to start protecting europe from these invaders, they cause trouble!!!

Ironically it was these same european countries that are the actual invaders, the colonisers, the thieves, the pillagers...

[Knolan]

how someone can think he is 14??

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they bring trouble where they go if you dont turn a blind eye to it you will see too

Apparently, It is racist to say otherwise.

Ironically it was these same european countries that are the actual invaders, the colonisers, the thieves, the pillagers...

Yes, we all know those places were a bastion of freedom and peace until the dirty whites got there.

[Shinra1]

Yes, we all know those places were a bastion of freedom and peace until the dirty whites got there.

Experts agree that European colonialism was on the whole a bad thing for the colonised. Do your research instead of getting your history from fox news and the daily mail/beast. In fact I'll give you a hint google the belgian congo and learn about how 10 million people were killed in the blink of an eye and millions more were mutilated.

[Deleted]

Ironically it was these same european countries that are the actual invaders, the colonisers, the thieves, the pillagers...

when did we do that??

[Knolan]

Experts agree that European colonialism was on the whole a bad thing for the colonised. Do your research instead of getting your history from fox news and the daily mail/beast. In fact I'll give you a hint google the belgian congo and learn about how 10 million people were killed in the blink of an eye and millions more were mutilated.

Sorry, you won't get me fell any white guilt.

I live in a 3rd world country that was colonized by EU, blaming them is like blaming your parents for your failures when you are 40, you are to blame as well.

Also, how long have many of those countries not being a colony for? They still kill each other and multilate each other because of their tribes, do you think this is a value they learned from Europeans?

Europe has been the battle field of two world wars and they managed to get back to the top, most of those countries can barely keep themselves from a civil war or an ethnic cleanse. Take a look at South Africa or Zimbabwe if you want a counter-example.

[Shinra1]

Sorry, you won't get me fell any white guilt.

I live in a 3rd world country that was colonized by EU, blaming them is like blaming your parents for your failures when you are 40, you are to blame as well.

Also, how long have many of those countries not being a colony for? They still kill each other and multilate each other because of their tribes, do you think this is a value they learned from Europeans?

Europe has been the battle field of two world wars and they managed to get back to the top, most of those countries can barely keep themselves from a civil war or an ethnic cleanse. Take a look at South Africa or Zimbabwe if you want a counter-example.

African countries like Nigeria and the Congo have so many resources, namely oil and minerals, but continue to be underdeveloped not because of how you framed them as uncivilised and incompetent to lead themselves without a white saviour BUT because of Africa as a whole cannot achieve development unless it takes control of its resources. However, this is a very challenging mission. Not because it is difficult, but because colonial powers will never allow a truly nationalist leader to be in the lead. They know how to play their dirty games in order to obstruct any genuine attempt towards realisation of sovereignty.


I mentioned the Belgian Congo in my previous post and I urged you to look it up not to embarrass you but because there are so many lessons there and it is the perfect example of how the dynamics of colonial history manifest into the post colonial nearly 67 years after the Belgium government emancipated the Congolese. You also have to look at how African countries were and continue to be be incorporated into the global economic system and the impact of the practices and the policies of the Bretton Wood institutions (IMF). The Congo was very early on incorporated into a global political economic system by King Leopold in a coercive and extractive manner where it functioned solely as a space to extract raw materials to feed the Belgium economy. As a result the Congo was open and vulnerable to the global system as a whole and it was marked as the periphery while Western countries such as Belgium were the center. Leopold's history did not die with him, as today the Congo continues to be incorporated into the global system in a similarly extractive manner where diamond and aluminium are geared towards feeding Western markets and corporations. Leaving behind a Congo suffering with a weak political system and a populous that is denied basic human rights which is suffering directly from underdevelopment due to lack of accessibility to their own resources.

The practices and the dynamics of the colonial history also manifest into the post colonial. Take a country like Nigeria, one of the world's largest oil producers. During the Berlin conference of 1884, all the Western powers came together and they carved Africa into colonies and in this process arbitrary nation states were created that cut across geographical locations, ethnic groups and people who were at peace or at war with each other. When the British empire came to Nigeria the country had over 100 unique ethnic groups but due to the colonial rule of ethnic politicization these ethnic groups were compressed into the 3 main groups, one in the north, another in the West and another in the East. The British empire used these three ethnic groups as their partners and their agents in establishing the colonial regime in Nigeria and in exchange the three ethnic groups were favourably given education and some of the resources. When Nigeria gained independence in 1960, Nigeria which was a nation state that was arbitrarily constructed was rife with ethnic politics. As history tells us in the Rwandan context, ethnic politicization during colonialism breeds ethnic violence in the post colonial. Today contemporary Nigeria is a petrol state where the three groups that the colonial regime constructed have an iron grip on the Nigerian economy, politics and the social system. The other ethnic minority groups that have been marginalised do not receive the resources or education and they have resorted to violence and as a result Nigeria remains underdeveloped and remains a nation struggling with corruption and weak political systems.


During the 1970s with neoliberalism on the rise and with the recent decolonisation of most of the African countries, the IMF created the structural adjustment loan policy which was offered to these post colonial African countries and it was basically a loan with particular conditions such as African countries having to reduce spending on education and health. At this point most of the African countries were either socialist or authoritarian and were relatively improving but the loans by the IMF made their national economies radically privatised and radically capitalised. This led to the African countries accumulating huge debt which devalued and weakened the national economies within the larger global system. The negative effects of the structural adjustment loans are particularly evident in Zambia, largest copper producer, where the infant mortality rate is grotesque (1 in 5 children die by the age of 5) and the life expectancy decreased to around 45 years of age and so has the GDP and the primary school enrollment.

[sarahtasher]

Sorry, you won't get me fell any white guilt.

I live in a 3rd world country that was colonized by EU, blaming them is like blaming your parents for your failures when you are 40, you are to blame as well.

Also, how long have many of those countries not being a colony for? They still kill each other and multilate each other because of their tribes, do you think this is a value they learned from Europeans?

Europe has been the battle field of two world wars and they managed to get back to the top, most of those countries can barely keep themselves from a civil war or an ethnic cleanse. Take a look at South Africa or Zimbabwe if you want a counter-example.

Again, it's not a figment of the imagination that people from Iraq , Afghanistan, Yemen and Lybia, who were already not terrible prosperous countries, are bombed with American products...

[s_bushido]

Quite afew of them are also adults pretending to be youths.
even then I'm wondering why their are so many unaccompanied children, they can't all be ophans

Right? Next thing you know there will be millions of illegals voting for Hillary so that they can use their food stamps to buy iphones and soda.

Seriously, though... I would be interested to see statistics on how many adults are masquerading as children, because the handful of pictures I've seen of adult men labeled as minors being spread around to terrify us of the dreaded migrant invasion are...unconvincing.

[Spectral]

The likelihood of the claim seems... low. While there are certainly a smattering of terrible wars going on, there certainly aren't 10 times as many as there were a decade ago. If I didn't know better, I'd suspect that there might be some "refugees" in the group of refugees.

[Deleted]

So when will the competent rulers of my country decide to take them all in?

[Daneman]

Seriously, though... I would be interested to see statistics on how many adults are masquerading as children, because the handful of pictures I've seen of adult men labeled as minors being spread around to terrify us of the dreaded migrant invasion are...unconvincing.

Omkring hver sjette af de mindreårige angiver nemlig, at de er børn, selv om de i virkeligheden er over 18 år, afslører tal fra Udlændingestyrelsen og politiet.


http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfu...voksne/5959151

1 out of 6 who claim to be minors are lying in denmark. There's a lot of incentive to lie about it due to how laws are written, makes it harder to deport them and they have access to things that adults do not.