A number painted on a plain cement gravestone is all that marks the resting place of hundreds of Afghans in a city in Turkey’s east. The unnamed migrants buried here lost their lives trying to cross the treacherous border from Iran.
After fleeing Afghanistan as a child, Nadia Nadim turned to football while living in a center for asylum seekers in Denmark. In 2009, she became the first foreign-born player to play football in the Danish national team. She believes that sport can help migrant and refugee children better integrate in their new societies.
Seven migrants were killed in eastern Turkey after their boat sank in Lake Van, according to the official Anadolu news agency. Turkish authorities meanwhile said that they rescued 64 people.
Two asylum seekers in northern Greece have committed suicide. The two men, an Afghan and an Iraqi national, were found in the village of Mouries near the Greek border with North Macedonia.
An Afghan woman known only as "MO1" for legal reasons, has been waiting for the UK to "take charge" of her asylum claim from France since January 2019. While waiting in France, the survivor of rape was allegedly attacked by her husband and blinded in one eye. InfoMigrants spoke to her lawyer Jane Ryan.
As 2019 draws to a close, the European border agency Frontex has released its latest reports about fluctuating trends across migrant arrivals to Europe. It found that arrivals were falling in the western and central Mediterranean and growing in the eastern Mediterranean as well as the Balkans.
A 27-year-old Afghan mother died after a small fire broke out in a migrant camp on the island of Lesbos. Firefighters are investigating the cause of the fire.
Germany has deported another group of rejected asylum seekers from Afghanistan back to their home country. 44 men arrived in Kabul on Wednesday - the 30th group to be deported in the past three years.
Pope Francis is again establishing his own ‘humanitarian corridor’ from Greece to Italy. His latest decision is to send a close aide, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, to the Greek island of Lesbos to pick up 33 asylum seekers and bring them back to Rome.
Every asylum seeker deserves the chance to prove his or her right to protection. That’s the philosophy behind Asylos, a group of volunteers based around the world who do research to fill in critical gaps in information about asylum seekers' claims. InfoMigrants spoke to Asylos about their work.
A new study concludes that Afghans deported from Germany and EU countries are at risk of death, economic hardship and radicalization. The government is seeking to streamline deportations in 2020.
Children make up over 45% of the people living in and around Greece's infamous Moria camp. These thousands of children are living in unbearable conditions and with very few facilities. InfoMigrants takes a closer look at some of the basic amenities that are there for Moria's children.