Purpose: To describe where child refugees are located, the risks they face, leading health problems, and how pediatric healthcare professionals can help. Conclusions: Children constitute approximately 46% of refugees worldwide. These refugees fled their home countries due to conflict and persecution, and cannot return because of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Practice Implications: Pediatric nurses have an unprecedented opportunity to advocate for child refugees by contributing to the international conversation on the human rights of immigrants. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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