More than 240 asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos have contracted the novel coronavirus. They are all housed at a temporary camp accommodation after the devastating fire at the Moria camp earlier in September.
Afghan interpreters who worked with the British armed forces in Afghanistan will be granted asylum in the UK, announced the British Home Secretary and the UK’s Defense Secretary on Saturday, September 19.
A 24-year-old Afghan migrant, who was found dead inside the garage of a ferry that reached Ancona from Greece on Sunday, had an application in his pocket asking for the possibility of obtaining the status of political refugee in Greece, officials said Monday, September 7. Greek authorities had not processed his request yet. The young man was identified thanks to the document.
The so-called "Orderly Return Law" (Geordnete-Rückkehr-Gesetz), which was enacted in Germany a year ago has failed to achieve its objective of raising the number of deportations in the first six months of its existence.
The Italian police union SIAP in Sardinia has said that the situation regarding migrants infected with COVID-19 is getting worse by the day. They have called for urgent interventions to address the problem.
Sexual violence is rampant in most armed conflicts and has a direct impact on mass population displacement, rise of extremism and structural gender-based inequality and discrimination, states a UN report released on July 22. We talked to Pramila Patten, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (United Nations) on Sexual Violence in Conflict about the findings.
Despite a decade of efforts and various resolutions, the use of sexual violence as a tactic of war and to spread terror remains rampant in armed conflicts, states a report by the United Nations. InfoMigrants summarizes the number of cases documented by the UN in 12 conflict settings.
83 migrants, including more than a dozen sick children, have been flown to Germany from Greece. The migrants are the latest group to be relocated from overcrowded Greek camps under a government commitment to shelter hundreds of vulnerable people.
The UN refugee agency has organized its first art competition, the Youth with Refugees Art Contest. The contest was aimed at young designers from all over the world and inspired by the theme "everyone counts in the fight against the virus, including refugees."
A German national is on trial after promoting the illegal practice of "civil society asylum" on a website under his name. Among other means, he is alleged to have advocated hiding rejected asylum seekers in private homes.
Germany carried out a deportation flight to Pakistan leaving from Frankfurt. It is the first of its kind since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
When Ali Rahimi arrived in Austria in September 2015, he was full of hope. Hope that he would be able to live in peace and learn to read and write. Since his deportation, he lives in constant fear for his life.