Survivors of the February 26 shipwreck off Steccato di Cutro in the southern Calabria region and a 17-year-old Pakistani national accused of smuggling have appeared in court.
The International Centre for Climate Change and Development says governments should create a legal status for those displaced due to climate change and help shift public attitudes toward refugees.
Another arrest has been made in connection with a fatal shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy that killed at least 72 people last month. Meanwhile, there’s growing disagreement about where the remains of the victims should be buried.
Stepping up deportations has been a key objective of Germany's coalition government. But the policy continues to suffer setbacks and it is particularly problematic in the city state of Berlin.
A national soccer player from Pakistan seeking medical treatment for her three-year-old son was among the 71 migrants confirmed dead in a shipwreck off Italy's southern coast eight days ago. Further details about the tragic journey are starting to emerge.
The Pakistani hockey player Shahida Raza set sail from Turkey, headed for Italy, in the hope of a better future. But her hopes were shattered off the coasts of Calabria in the Ionic Sea on February 26 when she perished in one of the deadliest shipwrecks off the Italian coast in recent years.
An acute economic crisis, rising food insecurity and a lack of jobs are forcing many Pakistanis to embark on dangerous journeys to reach Europe.
Nearly one million asylum claims were lodged in the EU, Switzerland and Norway last year, the most since 2016. Syrians and Afghans remained the main applicants, while claims from Turkish nationals more than doubled.
According to the most recent report issued by Pakistan's National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR), Afghan citizens who have entered the country illegally have been held in local prisons. There are many women and children among those who are suffering under this situation, including multiple pregnant women seeking medical attention.
Italy has welcomed more than 300 migrants via humanitarian corridors over the past two weeks. The new right-wing government has said it says 'yes' to the corridors and 'no' to traffickers and "illegal immigration".
Two groups of Afghan refugees have arrived in Italy through humanitarian corridors recently: 26 people landed in Rome from Tehran on Tuesday and 152 people from Pakistan arrived last week.
A group of 86 Pakistani migrants returned home from Greece this week. The voluntary returns were organized by the UN migration agency (IOM) in Greece.