Children make up nearly half of refugees worldwide. DW’s Kathleen Schuster spoke with the UNHCR’s Babar Baloch about the perils that children face as refugees.
Back in March – as the makeshift Idomeni camp on Greece’s border with Macedonia made headlines – Babar Baloch, the UNHCR’s spokesman for Central Europe, witnessed something that has become surprisingly common for aid workers. “There were 12 children from 10 to 16 years of age from different backgrounds – Syrian, Pakistani, Afghan – that were being kept in a police lockup because there wasn’t enough space for them,” Baloch told DW. “They weren’t sure what was happening to them,” Baloch added. Children made up an estimated 40 percent … continue reading
