A Belgian court handed a one-year suspended sentence to a police officer over the fatal shooting of a two-year-old migrant girl. The officer shot at a van carrying migrants during a car chase, resulting in the toddler’s death.
A German Neo-Nazi was sentenced this week to life in prison for murdering Walter Lübcke, a local politician whose support for refugees had made him a target among Germany’s right-wing extremist scene. The verdict has closed a painful chapter in Germany's debate on migration, but there's a long history of xenophobia and racism that continues to simmer underneath.
Amid heated debate about the long-term effects of the lockdown on children, business and the arts, Germany's refugees seem to have been forgotten.
The Kurdish community in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region says that the numbers of suicides are increasing, particularly in refugee camps full of Kurdish Yazidis.
Instead of going to classes and learning lessons for life, migrant children on the move are often stuck simply trying to survive. In Bosnia, some have to help their parents scheme their escape into the EU instead of enjoying their childhood.
"Temple of Refuge" illustrates Iraqi-Kurdish migrant Sartep Namiq's journey to Berlin. It was commissioned with the help of a unique organization.
Saman Haddad came to Germany at the age of 13 as the child of Iraqi refugees. Now, he's a well-known cultural figure in Bonn, unafraid to do things his own way.
Pope Francis has launched an appeal to the international community to make "every possible effort" to facilitate the return of refugees from Syria and Iraq to their homes.
The Iraqi government has said that it has launched an "emergency plan" to provide shelter for tens of thousands of displaced people after the Baghdad authorities decided in October to close refugee camps.
The organization Save the Children said thousands of children are forced to live among unexploded bombs, dead bodies and rubble, after the closure of camps for displaced people in Iraq.
More than 1,500 migrants have illegally entered Germany from Scandinavian nations since the beginning of the year. Politicians are calling for an overhaul of the Dublin regulation to make such secondary migration less attractive.
The number of resettled refugees is expected to be the lowest in almost two decades this year, according to the UN refugee agency. Roughly 15,000 refugees were resettled between January and September, compared to 50,000 during the same period in 2019.