The National Commission for the Prevention of Torture has criticized Switzerland for using inappropriate force during deportation. One pregnant woman was restrained in front of her children and forced to breastfeed while handcuffed.
Swiss police have found 23 refugees crowded inside a van coming from northern Italy. The driver has been arrested.
Police on Crete last week stopped 22 migrants who were trying to leave the Greek island using forged foreign passports.
IOM, UNHCR, and UNICEF have urged EU states to put an end to the detention of migrant and refugee children, and have provided new recommendations for alternatives to the practice.
A team with refugee football players in Germany has won the first UNITY EURO Cup in Nyon -- an international football tournament for refugees and migrants. The new competition organized by the European Football Union (UEFA) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) aims to promote the integration of refugees.
Getting married, receiving a registered letter or reporting a violent crime: in Switzerland's biggest city, these are all activities that are impossible for thousands of migrants without legal status. But a new ID card for the undocumented is set to change that.
In May, the Swiss canton of Bern played host for the second time to a refugee parliament. Each year, the parliament brings together dozens of refugees from many different countries who live in Switzerland.
Authorities in Switzerland say around half of the refugees who have arrived from Ukraine are falling through the cracks of the welfare system. Some are having to rely on food handouts from charities.
A Swiss millionaire has so far transported over 300 Ukrainians from Poland to Switzerland since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is not the first time Guido Fluri has used his millions to help refugees.
The Swiss Refugee Council has called on the government to stop returning migrants with mental health problems to Italy. It says reception conditions in Italy remain extremely precarious, and deporting vulnerable people may be putting their human rights at risk.
The numbers of displaced people in the world has increased in the first half of 2021, according to an interim report by the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR. More than 84 million worldwide were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced by June 2021.
The UN human rights chief has called on countries to take in people uprooted by natural disasters. According to a new World Bank report, climate change could cause some 216 million people in six regions to move within their countries by 2050.