By the end of 2020, the number of undocumented migrants in Italy could surpass 670,000. That is more than twice as many as only five years ago, according to a report by Amnesty International.
The death of a Georgian migrant in a repatriation center in the town of Gradisca, northeastern Italy, has sparked outrage. Witnesses say that the man had been brutally beaten by ten policemen but what actually happened has not yet been ascertained. An investigation is underway for alleged murder.
Many migrant farmworkers in the Matera region in Italy suffer from diseases linked to poor working and living conditions, and lack sufficient access to public healthcare, Doctors Without Borders says in a new report.
68 asylum seekers have been sent from Rome to Paris as part of an EU-wide relocation program. Since September 2019, some 464 people have been redistributed from Italy to other EU countries.
In a landmark ruling, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has said that governments must take into account the effects of the climate crisis when considering the deportation of asylum seekers.
A precarious truce in Tripoli appears to be largely holding following a conference in Berlin on Sunday, according to sources on the ground. After a few clashes were reported on Sunday night, the situation has become calm again.
The first regional center for migrant repatriation on the Italian island of Sardiania opened on Monday. The facility is located in the town of Macomer, where dozens of migrants arrived recently.
Controversy erupted in Italy after former interior minister Matteo Salvini said that the "massive presence" of migrants coming from Muslim countries was "spreading antisemitism, in Italy as well." The former minister and leader of the right-wing League party also said he'd recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in case he is elected prime minister.
The Italian Court of Cassation has rejected an appeal filed by the prosecutor's office against an order to release Carola Rackete, the captain of the Sea-Watch 3 migrant rescue vessel. In June 2019, Rackete was temporarily arrested after she illegally entered the Italian port of Lampedusa with 40 migrants on board.
The new Greek government has been accused of "incompetence" after it reinstated a separate ministry for migration. Still, the government says it will move ahead with its plans to replace current "open" camps like Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos -- despite protests on the Aegean islands.
A UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria has said that nearly nine years of conflict in Syria has robbed children of their dreams, reporting numerous rights violations committed by all sides involved in the conflict. The report entitled 'They have erased the dreams of my children' was released on Thursday.
The first regional center for migrant repatriation (CPR) in Sardinia will open in the former Macomer jail on January 20. The facility is located in the city of Macomer in Sardinia, where dozens of migrants have landed recently.