Gabriella Bottani, a nun and the international coordinator of the anti-smuggling network Talitha Kum, has denounced ''extremely serious human rights violations in Libya, including torture, work exploitation, sexual abuse and murder.''
A total of 780 human trafficking victims were reported in Tunisia in 2018, up from the 742 registered the previous year, the National commission for the fight against human trafficking (INLCTP) has said. The majority of cases were 'domestic slavery' and 'forced labor.'
Italian authorities have issued arrest warrants for 14 people accused of trafficking migrants on speedboats from Tunisia. Migrants were charged as much as 3,000 euros per trip.
Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, has voted in favor of declaring four additional countries "safe countries of origin." However, the Bundesrat, the upper house, still has to ratify the decision. The addition of Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Georgia to list of safe nations is not without controversy.
In 2018, more than 5,000 Tunisians left their home country for Italy alone. A new study found that Tunisia experienced a new peak of irregular emigration starting in the second half of 2017.
There are 630,000 Tunesian emigrants living in OECD countries. A new study by takes a closer look at these migrants. What the researchers learned: Most of them are young (under 35!) and have settled in the European Union, in particular in France, Italy and Germany.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported that 111,558 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2018 through 16 December. At least 2,217 people were reported dead.
Tunisian authorities said it has registered alarming figures regarding human trafficking in 2017, with more than 1,480 cases of underage victims last year.
More than half of Tunisian between the age of 18 and 35 are thinking about emigrating, according to a new survey. One in ten Tunesians is making concrete plans to leave.
Since the summer of 2018, more and more migrants have left Tunisia to make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. On the other side of the sea, Europe is becoming increasingly frustrated. Still, it seems Tunisia does little to prevent these journeys in the first place. Faced with a major economic and social crisis of its own, the government has let the migration problem slide -- it has yet to put a national asylum policy in place and has next to no infrastructure for migrants. InfoMigrants went to Tunisia and met black-skinned migrants, both legal and illegal, who say they have all, at least once, been subject to racist slurs and even beatings. They hope that a new anti-racist law will change their lives for the better.
A project that aims to protect migrant workers' rights in North Africa has been launched in Tunis. The project, titled "Support to Improving Migration Governance and Promoting Fair Labor Migration in the Maghreb," will support improvements in migration management.
People from Germany's list of "safe" countries rarely have the right to asylum. DW looks at what the list means with regard to asylum law in Germany and why some view parts of it with skepticism.