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April 19, 2017

Report: Child Refugees in Greece Forced to Sell Sex to Fund Journey Across Europe
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A new Harvard University report says unaccompanied child refugees in
Greece are being forced to sell sex in efforts to try to pay human
traffickers to take them further along their journey across Europe. The
report comes as refugees continue to risk their lives to reach Europe's
shores. The International Organization for Migration says 9,000 refugees
were rescued in the Mediterranean this weekend alone.

Leonard Doyle: "Almost 9,000 migrants have been rescued over the weekend
by individual NGOs and by the international flotilla. The figure is
8,360, the precise figure. They're mostly Africans, although they also
include a large number of Bangladeshis, a relatively high number of
Bangladeshis. I think what's significant is that this brings to-when we
look at the deaths at sea so far, we have 900 migrants dying so far at
sea this year, 90 percent on the Libya-to-Italy stretch."



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