Many refugees and asylum seekers can face discrimination, even on arrival in Europe. For members of the LGBTQI+ community, the threat of violence and discrimination can be even more pronounced. That’s why a project in Greece has been working to create a safe place for LGBTQI+ people in the heart of Athens.
After police raids in the Bulgarian capital Sofia and in the eastern region of the country, 17 suspected people smugglers were arrested and taken into custody by the authorities. The Deputy Prosecutor General, who has already broken up other similar rings, is investigating the group and their reach further.
Sara Sharfaldeen was a journalist in Sudan. She lived in a luxury apartment block, had a driver and a live-in housekeeper and was the political editor of a newspaper. Her work placed her under scrutiny from the government and she felt forced to flee in 2015 arriving in the UK by plane.
The European Union’s statistical office, Eurostat and the European Asylum Support Office EASO have released their latest figures on asylum for 2018. Overall, the total number of asylum applicants decreased by over 50 percent compared to figures from 2015. Germany welcomed the greatest number of asylum seekers, followed by France, then Greece, Spain and Italy.
Bristol, a multicultural city in the south-west of England, has been holding a series of events to get its inhabitants talking about migration, integration and inclusion. The city's mayor, Marvin Rees, found time to tell InfoMigrants more.
Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the head of the Council of Protestant Churches in Germany, has made a video appeal for the migrants currently aboard the German rescue organization’s boat Sea-Watch 3. He said that Europe should not stand by and watch and that help was needed immediately to solve the situation.
Germany’s various regional interior ministers are in the middle of a three-day meeting with the federal interior minister, Horst Seehofer. The meeting included heated discussions, and disagreement, over regional deportation policies. Why is this issue so controversial in Germany?
To mark World Refugee Day this June, the UNHCR is encouraging people around the world to count the steps they walk, run and cycle and register on a website. The aim? To cover the distance that refugees are forced to walk every year in order to reach safety. The campaign aims to honor the efforts families make to survive, the UNHCR says.
Domenico Lucano was the mayor of the Calabrian town of Riace for 15 consecutive years. He became world-famous for his migrant-hosting and integration policies. In October 2018, he was suspended and forbidden from returning to the town while investigations against him were underway. Now the latest trial against him has begun in the municipal court in Locri.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), human trafficking and ‘modern slavery’ is on the rise across the globe and taking on ‘horrific dimensions.’ But what kinds of factors make people vulnerable to being trafficked? A new report investigates.
Sweden and Switzerland are among the most favored destinations for skilled migrant workers, according to an international survey. The OECD poll published on Wednesday links countries' migration policies with their attractiveness to workers from abroad.
How do you keep unaccompanied children in the UK safe from trafficking? That was the question addressed by a pilot project from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) which concluded recently.