Greece facing refugee childrens emergency as arrivals double in 2024

Greece is facing a refugee “children’s emergency” as the number of unaccompanied minors reaching the country rises and concern grows over a lack of “safe zones” to host them. Large numbers of children arrived in 2024 along a new trafficking route from Libya to Crete, prompting NGOs to urge Greek authorities to take emergency measures that would allow children to be transferred to protected shelters or other EU member states “What we are seeing amounts to a children’s emergency of the kind that we haven’t witnessed in years,” said Sofia Kouvelaki, who heads the Home Project, an organisation that supports

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