UNICEF reports sharp rise in migrant children in Mexico

Apr 21, 2021, at 05:28 pm

New York: The number of migrant children reported in Mexico has increased sharply, jumping from 380 to nearly 3,500 since the beginning of the year: a nine-fold rise, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, reported on Tuesday.

Some 300 migrant children in US care facilities test positive for Coronavirus: Reports

Mar 25, 2021, at 02:42 pm

Washington/Sputnik: About 300 migrant children currently held in US federal care facilities have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the news website Axios reported on Wednesday citing the Department of Health and Human Services sources.

Mexico: UNICEF calls for implementation of protocol to protect migrant children

Feb 02, 2020, at 05:33 pm

New York/IBNS: Authorities in Mexico are being reminded by the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, of the need to protect the rights of migrant children who enter the country.

UN rights chief 'appalled' by US border detention conditions, says holding migrant children may violate international law

Jul 09, 2019, at 09:02 am

New York, July 9 (IBNS): Conditions in which migrants and refugees are being held in the United States are appalling, said the UN human rights chief on Monday, underscoring that children should never be held in immigration detention, or separated from their families.

Nearly 1,600 migrant children reported dead, missing between 2014 to 2018: IOM

Jun 29, 2019, at 09:47 am

Moscow, June 29 (Sputnik/UNI) Nearly 1,600 children of migrant parents have been reported missing or dead between 2014 to 2018, a report released on Friday by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.

Migrant children at US border have right to protection and ‘be with their families’: UNICEF chief

Jun 20, 2018, at 10:01 am

New York, June 20 (IBNS): Separating children from their families is in no-one’s best interest – the head of UN Children’s Fund UNICEF said on Tuesday – pointing to “heartbreaking” stories of infants who have been reportedly removed from their parents after entering the US from Mexico illegally.

UN rights chief slams ‘unconscionable’ US border policy of separating migrant children from parents

Jun 19, 2018, at 12:52 am

As part of his final global update, the United Nations human rights chief on Monday voiced his deep concern over recently-adopted United States border protection policies that have seen hundreds of migrant children forcibly separated from their parents.