European countries must do more to protect child refugees and migrants who face risks and hardship after arriving in Europe. This year around 13,000 children have arrived in Greece, where they are suffering under terrible conditions, the UN warns.

“These children may have fled conflict, lost family members, been away from home for months, even years, with some enduring horrific abuses during their journeys,” said Pascale Moreau, the director of UNHCR's Europe bureau. Many of the boys and girls who cross the sea from Libya are exposed to sexual violence or exploitation on their way to and in Libya,” a report released by the Women's Refugee Commission in March 2019 confirmed.