The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #164267   Message #3929700
Posted By: Iains
07-Jun-18 - 05:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: Toddlers housed in kennel cages
Subject: RE: BS: Toddlers housed in kennel cages
"“Today, nearly one in every 200 children in the world is a refugee,” said Lily Caprani, Unicef UK’s deputy executive director. “In the last few years we have seen huge numbers of children being forced to flee their homes, and take dangerous, desperate journeys, often on their own. Children on the move are at risk of the worst forms of abuse and harm and can easily fall victim to traffickers and other criminals."
Just two countries – Syria and Afghanistan – comprise half of all child refugees under protection by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), while roughly three-quarters of the world’s child refugees come from just 10 countries.

Now I wonder what country has created the mayhem to create these refugees? Is Iran the next domino to fall to swell the numbers?

New and on-going global conflicts over the last five years have forced the number of child refugees to jump by 75% to 8 million,


https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/07/nearly-half-of-all-refugees-are-children-unicef-report-migrants-united-nations