These data from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) they do not include the more than two million minors who have fled Ukraine since the end of February as a result of the Russian invasion, nor the 3 million internally displaced.
Nor does it include minors displaced by climate change and natural disasters, this UN agency warned.
If the data for 2021 is broken down, some 13.7 million were refugees and asylum seekers and about 22.8 million internally displaced by conflict, violence and other crises. In total, they are 2.2 million more than the previous year.
“We cannot ignore the evidence: the number of children who have been displaced by conflict and crisis is growing rapidly and it is our responsibility to reach them,” said Unicef Executive Director Catherine Russell. on the occasion of International Refugee Day.
Russell urged governments to prevent such situations and “ensure”, when they occur, “their access to education, protection and other critical services that support their well-being and development now and in the future.”
In particular, to the hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors or minors separated from their families, favorable victims of human trafficking, exploitation, violence and abuse.
Minors account for 34% of victims of human trafficking globally.
For Unicef, minors and their families are not only victims of the “cascading crises” that range from Afghanistan, through the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Yemen, but also of extreme climatic events, such as the drought in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel or the floods in Bangladesh, India and South Africa.
Total, displacement of minors due to natural disasters rose last year to 7.3 million.
The refugee population in the world has more than doubled in the past decade. Almost half are minors.
More than a third of displaced children live in sub-Saharan Africa (3.9 million or 36%), a quarter in Europe and Central Asia (2.6 million, 25%), and 13% (1.4 million) in the Middle East and North Africa.
Barely half of refugee children go to school and less than a quarter of adolescents reach secondary school.
Source: Ambito
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