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Child refugees: the world's uprooted youth

The world has more young refugees than at any time for 70 years. Their exile, trauma and resettlement has profound implications for the world over the next 20 years. 

  • A group of Swedish students and refugee pupils at a school in Halmstad

    Unaccompanied child refugees' suffering on route to Europe laid bare

    Interviews with 50 refugees aged nine to 17 in Sweden reveal scale of trauma, as they tell of imprisonment, rape and beatings
  • Shadows of children on a tent at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni.

    The refugee children of Idomeni: alone, far from home but clinging to hope

    They have fled their wartorn homelands in Syria and Afghanistan. Now they are stuck in northern Greece – so close to a new life
  • Two Syrian refugee boys at a shoe factory in southern Turkey

    The refugee children choosing between work and war – video

  • Two Syrian refugee boys at a shoe factory in southern Turkey

    From war to sweatshop for Syria's child refugees

  • Children at the Idomeni camp in Greece.

    Homesick, lonely, sleepless – and these are the lucky child refugees

    The scale of the struggle faced by young arrivals trying to adapt to a new country is revealed, as Britain prepares to accept more unaccompanied youngsters
  • A group of clowns entertain children at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni on April 24, 2016.
More than 10,000 migrants have been stuck for weeks in grim conditions at this camp after a series of border closures on the Balkan migrant route.
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    First laughs since Syria: the clowns getting refugee children smiling

    Volunteers in Europe and Turkey are helping young people uprooted from their homes with everything from entertainment to education
  • A child walks along railway tracks near the Greek village of Idomeni

    Quarter of child refugees arriving in EU travelled without parents

    Almost 368,000 minors sought asylum in Europe last year, the majority Syrian, Afghan or Iraqi
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