Italian and French police with the support of Europol has uncovered a criminal group that allegedly trafficked thousands of Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi immigrants from Asia to several European countries. That's according to investigative sources from Monday.
Thanks to the project 'Leaving violence. Living safe', promoted by the association D.i.Re in partnership with UNHCR, 50 female asylum seekers and refugees have been aided this year by the group's anti-violence centers that have responded to the specific needs of victims of abuse.
Save The Children has urged Italy to reform its citizenship law for children from migrant families. There are hundreds of thousands of young people who were born in Italy, but don't have citizenship because their parents were migrants.
There were 530,000 non-EU citizens in Italy without a valid stay permit in late 2018, according to the organization Assindatcolf. That included up to 200,000 domestic workers, such as caregivers for the elderly and children and cleaners.
Almost 1.5 million more euros will be added to a fund set up by Italy to help African nations, specifically for projects in Niger and Ethiopia.
Almost 7 out of every 10 Italians believe that racism towards migrants in the country has risen over the past year, according to the latest report by the social and economic research institute CENSIS.
Over 200 members of the migrants and refugees movement in Naples, Italy, held a protest on Saturday. They fashioned themselves after the left-leaning 'sardines' protest movement.
There were 6,222,000 foreigners residing in Italy as of January 1, 2019, according to a new report. The total population of Italy was 60,360,000. That means that roughly one in ten residents in Italy is a foreigner.
Most non-EU citizens in Italy will no longer be blocked from receiving the citizenship wage basic income, the Italian social security and pensions agency INPS announced last week. Many applicants had their requests blocked due to missing documents regarding assets in their home countries.
Migrants in the northern Italian city of Turin can now access a virtual map showing services from the closest toilet to the opening hours of the legal aid office. 'OASI on the street' - the app - was launched last week. Its creators, themselves refugees, hope that it will help migrants to make well-informed choices as well as offering immediate practical support.
A justice in Turin, Italy, ordered a last-minute suspension of the illegitimate repatriation of a young migrant originally from The Gambia. The migrant had been transferred to a repatriation center because even though he had the necessary requirements for obtaining a legal stay permit in Italy, he hadn't managed to obtain one due to a delay in communications with his home country.
The German-based private rescue organization Sea-Watch announced that as of December 5 it was registered under the German flag. The organization said it had “insufficient confidence” in the Netherlands as a flag state.