giftedness Press Berlin, 01.14.2011: blazes on the southern coast of Italy on a humanitarian catastrophe, fears the world's largest independent children's rights organization Save the Children. Two employees are on Lampedusa in use and take care of the boat people from Tunisia. Among the more than 4,000 migrants have arrived in the last five days on a 20 square mile island, there are also many children and young people. You can come alone or with their families. Save the Children staff were able to identify previously 100 minors, 44 of them have already been to Porto Empedocle (Sicily) to be related. Most give a target France.
Save the Children Calls the Italian authorities to become parties to the protection and recording standards to ensure the migrant. This must be particularly applicable to children who stay in the camps and on the piers of Lampedusa. "It is necessary to open the Lampedusa detention center immediately to prevent the people who are already exhausted from the journey, not spend more nights in the open," says Carlotta Bellini, child protection officer at Save the Children Italy. "The scale of this wave of refugees is still not clear. We must do everything we can to include children and protect them. "The detention center on Lampedusa was opened on Sunday evening. It offers However, a maximum of 800 people Place.
Save the Children is working with the Italian Red Cross, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR in May 2008 on the island of Lampedusa. Under the so-called Bureau project that takes care of Save the Children to the particular needs of under-age migrants from Africa. Last year, a total of 4348 migrants came by sea to Italy, including minors, in 1023 (686 without parents). The majority of people came from Tunisia (649, including 71 minors, 66 without parents).
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