One minor migrant out of five in Spain is undocumented, according to a report by the NGO Save the Children with the Por Causa Foundation. It said there are nearly 147,000 undocumented minors in Spain, based on the most recent statistics, which are from 2019.
Pietro Bartolo, a member of the European Parliament and for years the "doctor of migrants" who landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa, said Europe has the greatest responsibility for what is still happening in the Mediterranean and in Libya, and that it "doesn't do what it should do".
The associations Intersos and UNHCR on Tuesday launched a competition for PartecipAzione 2021, the fourth edition of an empowerment and capacity-building program for refugee associations in Italy.
Italian police on Tuesday arrested ten foreign nationals, most of whom from Iraqi Kurdistan, who allegedly set up a criminal organization involved in aiding and abetting clandestine migration including through procurement and counterfeiting documents.
Members of Libyan government ministries and other officials are this week taking part in an online course in migrant and refugee protection. It is hoped that the course will enable the sharing of best practices and experience, the organizers say.
Save The Children has warned that hundreds of unaccompanied minors and children with their families are trapped along the Balkan route and are suffering pushbacks from EU nations, trafficking, and exploitation.
The incoming Libyan prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, has said that he wants to strengthen Libya's "privileged relationship" with Italy, focusing in particular on immigration.
In the midst of the ongoing pandemic and harsh winter weather that has hit Greece over the past few days, residents of the island of Lesbos -- where over 7,500 asylum seekers are hosted -- have made an impassioned plea to help as many people as they can.
The European agency Frontex reported Thursday that illegal border crossings at Europe's external borders in January fell by almost half from the previous year to about 5,800.
The European Commission has begun an infringement procedure against Hungary for its law on NGOs commonly known as 'Stop Soros', which bans foreign-funded organizations from providing assistance to migrants.
Fifteen people were jailed and nine were put on house arrest by police in southern Italy. They allegedly belonged to two organizations that sold stay permits to people living abroad.
A memorial and a theater will be created at a former quarry on the Italian island of Lampedusa. The memorial will be dedicated to those who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean, especially the more than 360 migrants who died in the tragic October 2013 shipwreck.