Over 40 rights organizations have written a letter to Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte asking Italy to allow migrant search-and-rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3 to disembark migrants on board. The Dutch-flagged German NGO-run rescue ship has been at sea outside Italian waters for two weeks.
A report carried out by research center Cespi has highlighted that migrant women in Italy are able to set money aside yet suffer from a ''gender gap'' in terms of financial inclusion, income and the value of remittances.
The Italian Guarantor for the Rights of Detained Persons visited repatriation centers (CPR) in Rome, Potenza, Bari, and Brindisi, and said migrants are living in deplorable conditions. It called on the government to take action.
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that there is a ''catastrophic situation'' in Libyan detention centers that it visited. Over the past nine months, it noted, 22 people have died from suspected tuberculosis and other diseases in two detention centers south of Tripoli.
Italian authorities said the number of migrants who have entered Italy through the Balkan route has doubled in the last six months, compared to the same period in 2018.
The Terra Aperta ('Open Land') network has been set up in the Italian city of Pistoia to help migrant reception and as a response to a recent 'security decree' passed by the Italian government.
The Serbian government has said that 451 unaccompanied minors are currently living in the country. The latest figures released show that there are between 3,500 and 4,000 migrants in Serbia.
A Libyan middle school student in Italy chose to tell the story of her life as a migrant for her end-of-the-year school project. Her family arrived in Baronissi, Italy, via the Italian asylum seekers and refugee protection system SPRAR.
About 600 Italian families have in the past six months expressed their willingness to host a refugee as part of the Refugees Welcome Italia project.
UNICEF said that of the over 683,000 asylum requests made in 2018 in EU countries, some 19,700 had been filed by unaccompanied minors. The UN organization called on Italy to pass laws that will help protect young asylum seekers.
The international relief agency the Order of Malta, Malteser International, has urged the international community to do more to help developing countries meet refugees' needs.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has expressed interest in a proposal for a humanitarian corridor from Libya, the Comunità di Sant'Egidio said Thursday.