At the beginning of 2019, two migrant rescue ships carrying 49 people, including children, waited up to 19 days before being granted a port in which to dock. This has prompted Amnesty International to call for 'urgent action' to change...
When Belgium signed up to the UN Migration pact in December, the Prime Minister said he wanted to be 'on the right side of history.' At the same time, the government has faced criticism for 'stigmatizing and criminalizing' migrants....
Aram fled Syria in 2015. The 27-year old artist found safety in Berlin, Germany, but also misses home: "The sky color is different. The smell of the air is different. When it rains it’s different here than where I come from."
Freezing weather is exacerbating difficult conditions for migrants in overcrowded refugee camps in northern Greece. Last week the cold spell led to a protest by dozens of migrants at a camp near Thessaloniki. Greek officials have blamed...
Around 40 people in a holding center in Vincennes and 70 people in a center in Mesnil-Amelot, both in the Paris region, are on hunger strike. They allege police violence and a lack of access to adequate medical care; they say that their...
A group of activists from Switzerland visited western Bosnia in late December to provide assistance to thousands of refugees and migrants trying to enter the EU-member state Croatia from there. The conditions they live in in Bosnia are...
Italian authorities have issued arrest warrants for 14 people accused of trafficking migrants on speedboats from Tunisia. Migrants were charged as much as 3,000 euros per trip.
Sixteen migrants including six children were saved on the Pljesevica mountain, which marks the border between Bosnia and Croatia. They are all in precarious health condition after being exposed to freezing temperatures.
Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, has voted in favor of declaring four additional countries "safe countries of origin." However, the Bundesrat, the upper house, still has to ratify the decision. The addition of Tunisia,...
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December 2018 marked the culmination of two years of hard work by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its member states. Two new compacts, which were designed as roadmaps for managing mass migration, were adopted...
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is calling for harsher deportation laws after asylum-seekers attacked pedestrians in Bavaria. So far, who gets deported — and who makes that call — is a complex matter.
Based on Commission proposals, the Justice and Home Affairs Council adopted in September 2015 two Decisions to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece, to assist them in dealing with the pressures of the refugee crisis....
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This is the testimony of Salem, an Eritrean woman who successfully relocated from Italy to Portugal. The mother of a beautiful baby called Joana, Salem fled her country to find freedom. She had the courage to speak up about smugglers...