Late on Tuesday, October 19, the private rescue yacht Nadir was able to disembark the 34 migrants it had rescued almost two days before. Another 412 migrants are still waiting on board the Sea-Watch 3 ship to be assigned a safe port at which to disembark.
The Italian Coalition for Freedom and Civil Rights (CILD) has reported that between 2018 and 2021, nearly €44 million were spent by private agencies to manage ten Centers for Residence and Repatriation (CPR) for migrants in Italy -- a sign that detention has become a "very profitable sector" in Italy, according to CILD.
A judge in the city of Catania on Italy's island of Sicily has sentenced 11 Nigerian nationals to a total of 136 years in prison for the international trafficking of young women and girls from their home country to Italy, where they enslaved them and forced them to engage in prostitution.
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the situation of migrants in Italy, where there has been a decrease in the foreign population but where the foreigners remaining have grown poorer, according to the 2021 report on immigration published by Caritas and Migrantes.
An Italian court has sentenced a captain to a year in prison for handing migrants his ship's crew rescued over to the Libyan coast guard in 2018. The incident had sparked heated debate in Italy.
The Italian government has announced that there are now 3,000 more spots within its system of reception and integration to host Afghans that have fled their country.
A project titled "Rural Social ACT" was launched in Rome with the goal of fighting the problem of illegal gangmastering, stemming mafia practices, and promoting inclusion as well as social and job reinsertion for migrants.
A group of refugees has discovered that some victims of the October 2013 shipwreck off Lampedusa were moved from their tombs to a mass grave. This has drawn criticism from activists, and local authorities have launched an investigation into what happened.
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Many migrants in Italy are finding it hard or even impossible to get a Green Pass – the certificate of COVID-vaccination which they need in order to work. The aid group Intersos is trying to help.
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has launched a kit to support education about refugees in Italian schools. The initiative was launched to mark World Teachers' Day on October 5.
Four people have been placed under investigation by prosecutors in the southern Italian city of Bari, after a probe revealed that a repatriation center in the city was not providing adequate health care and checkups to residents at the end of 2019.