In Calabria, in Southern Italy, dozens of migrants with humanitarian protection permits have been evicted from a reception centre. The eviction comes after the so-called 'Salvini decree' stripped the migrants of their special humanitarian protection status so they no longer have a right to housing. Activists are now sounding the alarm.
14 Iranian migrants have been rescued after trying to cross the English Channel in two dinghies. The Dover Strait where they were apprehended is the world’s busiest shipping lane.
The fight against illegal immigration in Spain was at the center of a meeting between Spanish Premier Pedro Sanchez and his Moroccan counterpart Saadeddine Othmani on the sidelines of an intergovernmental conference on migration organized by the UN in Marrakech.
Police on Monday morning cleared the former penicillin factory on Via Tiburtina in Rome that had been illegally occupied for years. During the operation, authorities found 40 people still living there but 400 others had only recently left, after learning of the imminent clearance.
The UN agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that nearly 111,000 migrants reached Europe by sea in 2018. The Mediterranean is the deadliest route for migrants traveling to Europe with 2,160 victims registered so far this year, the IOM said.
Hossam was born deaf and mute in Syria. Later, as a Syrian refugee in Austria he decided his disability would not stand in the way of his job prospects. Today he works as a technician for an electronics giant in Vienna.
She escaped from a living hell: Nadia Murad gives a face to the thousands of Yazidi women who were raped by members of IS. Her efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon in war earned her the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
As the so-called ‘Salvini decree’ becomes law in Italy, the future for many migrants and refugees in the country is about to change. So how would those who work in the field of migration propose tackling the issue instead?
About 4.000 migrants and refugees are trapped on the island of Samos in Greece. Most of them live in provisional tents, facing a tough winter.
The 'Tavolo Apolidia,' a network of civil society organizations that protect stateless people in Italy, has been meeting in Rome.
The Spanish Ombudsman has opened ex officio action before the General Commissariat for Foreigners and Borders as a reaction to the long delays people seeking to register an asylum application in Madrid face.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has claimed that asylum seekers in his country are routinely offered free mobile phones and money. The comments came in response to reports of inhuman treatment of migrants in Italy. Is what Salvini said correct?