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  • Children collecting water, Bidibidi refugee camp, Northern Uganda.

    COVID-19 in Uganda: no school means no safe space for young refugees

    Blog by Moses Sakondo
    13 September 2020

    Since March 2020, schools in Uganda have been closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Bidibidi refugee settlement, one of the largest in the world hosting over 280,000 refugees mainly from the Equatoria region in South Sudan, more than 80,000 children have been affected.

  • EU member states must urgently relocate separated children from Greece, say 65 NGOs

    4 March 2020

    European Union member states should urgently relocate unaccompanied children from the Greek islands to safety in their territory, 65 human rights, humanitarian and civil society organisations said in a statement today.

  • Children abused and illegally returned at French-Italian border

    14 June 2018

    Children as young as 12 are being abused, detained and illegally returned to Italy by French border guards, according to a new report by Oxfam.

  • Adoum Ismail, a cultural mediator for Oxfam, looks at a highway bridge close to the border of France and Italy. Migrants often walk this road on their way to France. Photo: Agostino Loffredi/Oxfam

    Nowhere but out

    14 June 2018

    In Ventimiglia, near the border between Italy and France, refugees and other migrants are living rough, without access to the most basic services. The French police meet children with abuse, and send them back to Italy in violation of French and EU law. Stranded, hundreds of people are unable seek even basic support.

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