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'EU not protecting refugee children'

A young boy is seen among the migrants and refugees seated on a rubber boat and waiting to be rescued by the Topaz Responder, a rescue ship run by Maltese NGO "Moas" and the Italian Red Cross, on November 4, 2016 off the Libyan coast. © AFP

Jerome Hughes
Press TV, Brussels

EU legislators have highlighted what they described as the appalling neglect of refugee children currently inside the 28-country bloc. A debate in the European Parliament has heard that 10,000 children, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, have gone missing in the EU while a further 96,000 unaccompanied minors are being neglected.


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