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UNICEF is calling for national solidarity to keep schools safe and open
SKOPJE, 26 January 2022: UNICEF is encouraged by the Commission on Infectious Diseases’ recommendation to open schools for in-person learning on 1 February and calls for national solidarity to keep...
North Macedonia makes global pledge to uphold climate priorities identified by children
Skopje, 23 December 2021: President Stevo Pendarovski signed the Intergovernmental Declaration on Children, Youth and Climate Action today as part of the Open Cabinet activity. North Macedonia is the...
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UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: Regional Humanitarian Situation Report #17, 14 November 2016
Highlights Despite the deteriorating weather conditions and increasingly dangerous Mediterranean, October 2016 saw a spike in the number of refugees and migrants arriving on Italian shores. The...
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Refugee and migrant children must be treated as children first, says UNICEF
SKOPJE, 27 October 2016 – Speaking at the OSCE Regional Conference “Promoting Synergies and Common Approaches in Addressing Human Trafficking along the Western Balkan Migration Route”, UNICEF...
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UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: Regional Humanitarian Situation Report #16, 10 October 2016
Highlights In 2016, more than 241,930 refugee and migrant children sought asylum in Europe. This is three times the number of children, who arrived by sea in Greece and Italy. In September 2016, some...
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UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: Regional Humanitarian Situation Report #15, 12 September 2016
Highlights Between January 2015 and August 2016, 596,275 refugee and migrant children sought asylum in Europe. More than 341,600 of them arrived by sea. Since the beginning of 2016, UNICEF reached...
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UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: Regional Humanitarian Situation Report #14, 15 August 2016
Highlights So far this year some 266,000 people crossed the Mediterranean. Although refugees and migrants continue using the Eastern Mediterranean route, in July Italy registered 10 times more...
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UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: Regional Humanitarian Situation Report #13, 12 July 2016
Highlights So far this year more than 231,000 people crossed the Mediterranean. While the trend of decreased arrivals through the Eastern Mediterranean continued during the month of June, with only...
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Helping an Afghan girl hold onto childhood
By Aleksandar Dimishkovski When I first met Samira Azizi, she was overjoyed by the return of her mother with a three-day-old baby girl – the latest member of the Azizi family and Samira’s new sister...
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UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: Regional Humanitarian Situation Report #12, 13 June 2016
Highlights • Since January 2015, more than 1,200,000 people crossed the Mediterranean. From late 2015 and onwards there has been a steady increase in the proportion of children among refugees and...
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UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: Regional Humanitarian Situation Report #11, 4 May 2016
Highlights Since the beginning of 2016, almost 184,500 people have crossed the Mediterranean to seek safety and protection in Europe. Of them, 154,914 arrived on Greek shores. Since last March, there...
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United Nations agencies express serious concern at conditions in transit and asylum centers
The gradual tightening of entry criteria in February 2016 and the final closure of Western Balkan borders to irregular onward movement on 7 March 2016 have left a group of some 1,000 people in the...
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UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: Regional Humanitarian Situation Report #9, 15 March 2016
Highlights Since the beginning of 2016, almost 153,200 people have crossed the Mediterranean to seek safety and protection in Europe. Of them, 143,205 arrived through the Eastern Mediterranean, on...
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Syrian children sleep in the mud at a Balkan border
By Rajae Msefer Berrada It’s been a miserable couple of weeks for children on the move to Europe. Last week I stood in the muddy field outside the transit center in Tabanovce, close to the Serbian...
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Child refugees and migrants suffer most by border restrictions: UNICEF
GENEVA, 1 March 2016 – The dire situation unfolding at border points along the Balkan land route, especially in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and in Greece, has left thousands of children...
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UNICEF Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe: Regional Humanitarian Situation Report #8, 16 February 2016
Highlights More than one million people arrived in Europe by sea in 2015. Since the beginning of 2016, almost 82,640 new arrivals were registered, 76,607 of them on Greek shores. Women and children...
Long journey to Europe: a father’s perspective
By Sam Mort Author’s note: Last week, Noala Skinner, Director, UNICEF Brussels and Sam Mort, Senior Communications Advisor, UNICEF HQ, travelled to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The...
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Concern over health of children on the move during harsh winter - UNICEF
GENEVA, 19 January 2016 – Children arriving into a harsh winter in southeastern Europe are physically exhausted, scared, distressed and often in need of medical assistance, UNICEF warned. The recent...
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What would you do to escape ISIS and the Taliban?
By Thomas Nybo I recently met five boys who, as part of their journey out of Afghanistan, crammed into the trunk of a compact car. I encountered them at a refugee camp in the former Yugoslav Republic...