➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
Italy: UNICEF: Record Numbers of Unaccompanied Children Arrive in Italy
Arab Today – October 19, 2016
More and more migrant children have been crossing the sea to Italy without their families, bringing the number of unaccompanied minors to a record 20,000 so far this year, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said. In the first nine months of 2016 more children arrived by sea in Italy than in all of last year. This year more than 90% of the children travelled alone while in 2015 the unaccompanied accounted for 75%.
http://www.arabtoday.net/news-37/unicef-record-numbers-of-unaccompanied-children-arrive-in-italy-185534