At Zaatari camp in Jordan, refugees are growing herbs, tomatoes and cucumbers... even though the camp is located in the desert, water is scarce and the land is infertile. Their solution involves recycling old mattresses...
Two massive explosions in Beirut in early August left more than 160 people dead, thousands injured, and hundreds of thousands without homes. Syrian refugee Ahmed Staifi lost his wife and two daughters.
Sexual violence is rampant in most armed conflicts and has a direct impact on mass population displacement, rise of extremism and structural gender-based inequality and discrimination, states a UN report released on July 22. We talked to Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (United Nations) on Sexual Violence in Conflict about the findings.
Despite a decade of efforts and various resolutions, the use of sexual violence as a tactic of war and to spread terror remains rampant in armed conflicts, states a report by the United Nations. InfoMigrants summarizes the number of cases documented by the UN in 12 conflict settings.
Thousands of Moroccan seasonal workers were trapped in southern Spain with no work and no pay because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now they are finally heading home.
Why do people continue to migrate in an undocumented way via Pakistan and South Asia? This is one of several questions we asked well-known Pakistani human right lawyer Zia Awan when we interviewed him. He says corruption plays a significant role in undocumented migration.
Europe has introduced strict measures to stop illegal migration, yet many Pakistanis are still willing to undertake perilous journeys to migrate. Smugglers have continued exploiting young people in rural Pakistan, leading to tragedies along the route. InfoMigrants' Aasim Saleem covered one such stories of a failed journey.
Despite recent transfers of migrants to the Greek mainland, some 19,000 people are still living in and around the Moria camp on Lesbos. InfoMigrants spoke to Rosa Duran from Dutch NGO Movement on the Ground to find out more about the actual situation for aid workers, migrants and refugees.
Meet Farid Walizadeh, an Afghan refugee living in Portugal. For much of his life, the 22-year-old has had to fight for survival. Now he's fighting to participate in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
The number of migrant and refugee arrivals in European states has gone down considerably since 2015. This however does not mean that migration attempts to Europe have gone down at the same time. A Pakistani migrant’s account of his journey sheds light on how irregular migration routes and people smuggling are still very much alive in 2020.
According to estimates by the Pakistani authorities, some 30,000 to 40,000 people from Pakistan attempt illegal passage to Europe via Iran and Turkey every year. InfoMigrants spoke to an expert to find out which factors lead to this trend.
The European Union started pouring money to Libya to improve the conditions in the detention centers and to stop the flow of migrants to Europe. But an Associated Press (AP) investigation has found that parts of these funds have facilitated an intertwined and highly lucrative web of businesses that thrive on the misery of migrants in Libya.