The UN children fund UNICEF said there are 30 million children worldwide who have been displaced by conflict, the highest number since World War II. The organization is calling on world leaders to intensify protection measures for minors.
The Italian Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Liberty said that expulsion centers for migrants in Italy are in poor condition and lack transparent procedures.
Oxfam has claimed French police have cut the shoe soles of migrant minors, altered their age on documents and forced them back to Italy. The report comes as Italy and France exchange harsh words over migrants.
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When Wilson Mukerjee, his wife Ruth and his son Charles reported to the British Home Office on April 4, they thought it was for a routine check-in. In fact, it was the beginning of a nightmare for this family, who are all asylum seekers from Pakistan.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), following a visit to Algeria, is calling on that country's government to stop the collective expulsion of migrants and to respect international laws on human rights.
A report by the Transnational Institute in collaboration with Dutch anti-arms trade organization Stop Wapenhandel said Europe "is making deadly agreements with dictators to stop refugees" and "has turned its back on an unconditional commitment to human rights, democracy, freedom and human dignity." The report said that in recent years, Europe has expanded "in a problematic way its own border externalization policies" which bring "advantages to the security industry but provoke highly damaging human and development costs."
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reports that there are 700,000 migrants in Libya and torture is increasing in the country's clandestine prisons.
An association for foreigners' rights is calling on Italian national authorities and Roman local authorities to take over the responsibility of a former penicillin factory currently occupied by migrants, where recently a fire broke out.
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Dozens of civil society organizations across Europe have called on Hungary to withdraw proposed legislation that would "undermine and stigmatize organizations working to defend the human rights of migrants and refugees".
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, is planning to tighten immigration laws following his election victory in April. But as the country under Orban's leadership seems to be turning into an authoritarian fortress, there have been more complaints of human rights abuses against migrants.