Child custody

It is a very serious matter that 2.5 million euros in European Union funding for the development of housing units for unaccompanied young refugees is going to waste due to opposition from local residents to having such a unit in their area, but also major delays by the state in putting the funds to their proper use.

The İzmir provincial directorate of the Family and Social Policies Ministry has stirred controversy amid reports that it will restrict the gender of children granted to custodial parents, daily Habertürk reported on May 4. 

On average, 7 unaccompanied minor refugees are seeking protection in the country every day, shows the data of the State Agency for Refugees for 2016.

Last year, 6572 children entered the country, 42% of whom have arrived in Bulgaria without family or an elderly relative.

UNICEF and the European Union have launched a joint project to support more than 6000 refugee and migrant children, including unaccompanied minors, across Greece.

The initiative, which comes amid harsh weather conditions in Greece, aims to help keep refugee and migrant safe and cared for, and give them access to child protection and educational services.

Such a system would be put in place in case of a surge that would be seen as a threat to public order or national security. It would be put in place for a six-month period by a special parliamentary vote requiring a two-thirds majority but could be rolled back by a majority of all MPs.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Wednesday rejected Brad Pitt’s request to seal details about custody arrangements in his divorce from Angelina Jolie Pitt.

More than 1,200 unaccompanied child migrants are on waiting lists for a spot at one of the country's special hostels for vulnerable children, aid workers told a seminar organized by Doctors of the World in Athens Friday.

A brawl broke out late Thursday between young migrants at an accommodation center for unaccompanied minors in Patras, western Greece.

According to the Praksis NGO, which has undertaken the operation of the center, the fight involved 15 teenagers and left one of them slightly injured.

France moved hundreds of child migrants from the site of a demolished camp to reception centers across the country on Nov. 2, as a feud with Britain over who takes care of the youths dragged on. 

Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas Tuesday inaugurated a new center for unaccompanied migrant minors in Paiania, east of Athens, saying the facility would host up to 100 children, while noting that hundreds of others remain in reception centers across the country.