Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Some 300 children drowned trying to reach Europe so far this year
It is estimated that nearly 2,000 migrants have died trying to reach
Europe by sea in the first six months of this year, according to the UN’s
International Organization for Migration. Most of them died of drowning when
their overloaded boats capsized in the Mediterranean Sea. Just in one incident
in June, nearly 600 people perished when a boat from Libya crammed with
hundreds of migrants. In a conservative estimate by the UN’s child agency
(UNICEF), nearly 300 children died in the same period while 11,600 children
made the crossing in six months, three times more than in the same period last year.
They were all desperate to escape from conflicts and climate change. Those
children are so vulnerable to violence, crime, and exploitation as many of them
are unaccompanied or separated from their parents. As the number of migration attempts
is increasing this year, swift and effective actions are needed.
Read the article and learn about children dying in the Mediterranean
Sea.
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