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Fears over fate of '10,000 missing refugee children'

Some 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees are thought to have gone missing in Europe with fears that criminal networks are now actively targeting the most vulnerable.

25/02/2016

World News

Every day child migrants drown in the Med, the UN reveals

On average two children have been drowning every day in the eastern Mediterranean the UN’s refugee agency has revealed. It started its calculation

20/02/2016

My Europe Series

Paedophilia cold case burns French clergy

A group of former scouts have broken the silence about the abuse they went through decades ago. They want the highest authorities of the French

19/02/2016

World News

Paedophilia Cold Case burns French Roman Catholic Church

18/02/2016

World News

Threat of deportation of baby girl to offshore migrant centre sparks Brisbane protest

Protesters have turned out in support of medical staff in Australia, who are refusing to release a baby girl facing repatriation to an offshore

13/02/2016

Syria

'It's just not true' - Russia rejects claims that it's bombing civilians in Syria

Russia has rejected accusations that it’s been bombing civilians in Syria. The denial came at a security conference in Munich, as Moscow pressed on

13/02/2016

World

Ghana's president threatens to 'commit murder' against child marriage

Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama, in a bid to support a campaign against child marriage, threatened to commit murder if anyone attempts to

11/02/2016

Yemen

Yemen: UNICEF raises alarm about child malnutrition in 'the forgotten war'

In Yemen, more than a million children under five face the risk of acute malnutrition and acute respiratory tract infections according to

10/02/2016

World News

Europol sounds alarm over 10,000 missing migrant children

Europol has alerted the authorities to an aspect of the migrant crisis ignored until now; the fact that 10,000 children have gone missing, and will

02/02/2016

Argentina

DNA dashes hope of Argentina activist searching for stolen child

The woman thought to be the lost granddaughter of an activist who searches for babies stolen during Argentina's military dictatorship was someone else, DNA tests show.

26/12/2015

Pakistan

Peshawar school massacre anniversary marked

One year after Pakistan’s worst militant attack, families of children killed or wounded in the Peshawar school massacre say the local government has

16/12/2015

World News

Call South Sudan's leaders to account on child soldiers says report

The army base at Pibor in Southern Sudan is new, within a stone’s throw of the school whose classrooms its soldiers occupied for several years until

15/12/2015

Real Economy

A portrait of poverty: Europe’s women & children

In Real Economy this week Maithreyi Seetharaman looks at the challenges governments face in tackling poverty with the help of some of those closest

07/12/2015

World News

Zuckerberg to give away 99% of his Facebook shares to good causes

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have promised to give away 99% of their shares in the company to good causes as they

02/12/2015

United Kingdom

UK child sex abuse inquiry to investigate 'people of prominence'

The head of a major British inquiry into decades of child sexual abuse said that allegations involving so-called people of prominence will be

27/11/2015

France

How to talk to kids about tragedies such as the Paris attacks

How can we as parents or elders best communicate to children about terrorism and other senseless tragedies?

26/11/2015

Syria

Imagine eight million children of Syria

The winter boats keep coming to Europe, with many children on board. UNICEF puts the number of Syrian children needing urgent humanitarian aid at

24/11/2015

Croatia

Croatia: Who is 'Nina', the little girl found in a park?

An appeal has been launched to establish the identity of a little girl, aged around three, who was found alone in a park near the Croatian capital

06/11/2015

My Europe Series

Separation anxiety: trauma of underage refugees alone in Germany

Among the vast throng of refugees to have flowed into Germany this year are at least 30,000 unaccompanied minors. The situation for these vulnerable

06/11/2015

China

China considers loosening one-child policy

China’s one-child policy could soon change. The country of 1.3 billion people introduced its family planning rule in the late 1970s to control

27/10/2015