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14. juni– Raste procenat maloletnika me?u migrantima i izbeglicama, naro?ito onim koji pokušavaju da se preko mora iz Libije dokopaju obala Italije , navodi UNICEF u izveštaju pod naslovom „Opasnost na svakom koraku puta“, koji je objavljen danas.
Deca migranti koji beže?i od rata i siromaštvo kre?u na opasna putovanja ka Evropi suo?avaju se, ne samo sa opasnoš?u da se utope u Mediteranu, ve? su izloženi i premla?ivanju, silovanju i naterani na prisilni rad saopštava UNICEF.
U izveštaju se navodi da je svaki korak putovanja prepun opasnosti, pri ?emu svako ?etvrto dete putuje bez roditelja ili staratelja, te dodaje da je ovaj odnos daleko ve?i na brodovima koji stižu iz Libije, gde od desetoro dece, njih devet stiže bez pratnje.
U saopštenju Unicefa se navodi da postoje jaki dokazi da kriminalne mreže ciljaju najugroženije kategorije, naro?ito žene i decu.
„Italijanski socijalni radnici tvrde da se i de?aci i devoj?ice seksualno zlostavljaju i prisiljavaju na prostituciju za vreme boravka u Libiji, te je ustanovljeno da su neke devoj?ice bile silovane, a po dolasku u Italiju je utvr?eno da su u drugom stanju“, navodi se izveštaju.
UNICEF:Children face beatings, rape, death trying to reach Europe
Migrant children making the perilous journey to Europe to escape war and poverty face possible beatings, rape and forced labor in addition to risk of drowning in the Mediterranean, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
Minors account for a growing percentage of migrants and refugees, particularly those trying to reach Italy by sea from Libya, it said in a report, „Danger Every Step of the Way“.
Of the roughly 206,200 people who arrived in Europe by sea this year to June 4, one in three was a child, it said, citing figures from the U.N. refugee agency.
„Every step of the journey is fraught with danger, all the more so for the nearly one in four children traveling without a parent or guardian,“ UNICEF said.
That ratio was far higher on boats from Libya, where more than nine out of ten children were unaccompanied. UNICEF said there were almost 235,000 migrants and refugees in Libya and 956,000 in the Sahel, many or most hoping to go to Europe.
UNICEF said that there was „strong evidence that criminal human trafficking networks were targeting the most vulnerable, in particular women and children.
„Italian social workers claim that both boys and girls are sexually assaulted and forced into prostitution while in Libya, and that some of the girls were pregnant when they arrived in Italy, having been raped,“ it said.
