of these million were refugees million were internally displaced and million were asylum seekers many displaced children travel alone or are separated from their parents among the children making the dangerous passage from north africa to europe the vast majority per cent of those who arrived in italy in and the first two months of were unaccompanied in for instance almost pe of women aged were married before the age of a pra commonplace in southern asia and subsaharan africa women spent almost three times as many hours on unpaid domestic work as men