July 20, 2024 (PORT SUDAN) – Children in Sudan account for about 51 percent of the displaced people, making the war-torn nation one of the world’s largest child displacement crises, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said. As of mid-June 2024, it revealed, more than 8.6 million persons were forcibly displaced, including 1.9 million who have fled to Chad, Central African Republic (CAR), Egypt, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda. Also of concern is the fact that children face a wide range of protection risks at every stage of their displacement – before, during, and after their flight. Such risks, UNHCR noted, include grave violations of children’s rights, restricted access to safety, separation from families, gender-based violence, psychosocial distress, immigration detention, trafficking, and limited access to child protection services, including along the route to safety. Displaced parents, older siblings, and families face a multitude of protection risks that impact the well-being of children, including lack of access to protection and basic services, abuse, harassment, and exploitation. There are reports of increasing incidents of child trafficking in Chad, Ethiopia and South Sudan, particularly involving youth aged between 19 and 27 years old from Khartoum, West and Central Darfur, Blue and White Nile …

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