The number of people seeking asylum on grounds of atheism in Germany is growing. Yet there are no comprehensive guidelines on how to deal with such cases of persecution. Authorities are slow to adapt to the change.
For months now, Iranian tourists have been able to enter Serbia visa-free. Once there, many hope to make their way through the Balkans to northern Europe. But for thousands of travelers, the dream ends in a refugee camp.
The migrants who entered were mostly from Afghanistan. Local authorities are trying to stem the flow of migrants with a border wall and anti-trafficking centers.
If you have a migrant background and want to support other migrant and refugee women, training is available to become a counselor providing help to victims of violence.
As hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees are being returned from Pakistan and Iran back to Afghanistan, the World Bank is calling on Gulf States to open up legal venues for Afghan migrant workers.
Milan puts an initiative to help migrants work into action. A lawyer talks about the ins and outs of German law that allow the state to separate parents and children, and Italy is seeing more migrant-run businesses.
They are poor and do not have rights. More than 500,000 Afghan refugees have been deported from Iran and Pakistan. DW correspondent Shoaib Tanha met the returnees and assistants in the Afghan border town Islam of Qala.
Since mid-October, 28 Iranian Kurds staying in Kærshovedgård Danish deportation center have decided to go on a hunger strike to protest against their living conditions and to have their asylum application file reopened.
An anti-immigrant party comes in third place in Germany's general election - what does this mean for migrants and refugees? In Athens, a Syrian migrant has become a well-known activist for the refugee cause. And in Rome, a cooking initiative unites Italian locals and migrants through dining. This and more in today's news roundup.
As a new school year begins in Iran, there has been attention drawn towards migrant children who are out of school. With the number of these children estimated around 1 million, it presents a problem for social services.
"I am a migrant" is a platform launched by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to allow migrants to tell their own stories in order to counter negative sterotypes. The aim of initiative is to show "the human face of migration."