In Britain, at least five new detainees have been sent to the Yarl's Wood immigration detention center, despite reports of a case of Covid-19 in the facility. A British charity says all women in the center should be immediately released.
Dunja Mijatovic, the human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe, has asked member states to release as many people as possible from detention centers for migrants amid the coronavirus emergency. She says that these facilities "provide poor opportunities for social distancing and other measures to protect against Covid-19 infection."
As the lockdown continues across the UK, charities and organizations that help migrants are feeling the pinch. InfoMigrants caught up with one of them, which has been forced to close down its cookery lessons.
52 charities signed an open letter to council leaders all over England to demand "urgent steps […] to protect and support vulnerable migrants" during the Covid-19 pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of migrants could be at risk of starvation, they say, as support networks are suspended during the lockdown.
Slavery isn't a thing of the past, but a reality for more than 40 million people around the globe. DW talks to one of the world's oldest anti-slavery organization about why slavery still exists today.
Migrants and ethnic minority groups in Europe are at greater than average risk of needing an organ transplant. But they represent a very small proportion of organ donors. In Germany, which requires donors to opt in, encouraging people from diverse backgrounds to take this step is especially important.
Four British men accused of smuggling 29 people have been jailed in the UK. The men received sentences totaling 16 years between them for their part in sailing the migrants from France to the UK.
The UK has left the EU and this year is a transition year; old rules still apply until the end of 2020. At the beginning of next year, the country wants to install a new "points-based immigration system."
Not even the Syrian Civil War could diminish a teenage Almellehan's hunger for education. As a refugee in a Jordanian camp, she rallied for children's access to education — and she's been battling for it ever since.
Ninety migrants were picked up by British authorities as part of a large search and rescue operation, according to UK media reports. Most of them were rescued from rubber boats in the waters between France and England.
British MPs approved the latest Brexit bill, but rejected five amendments. They included provisions to reunite child refugees with families already in the UK, and guaranteed residence for millions of EU citizens.
Authorities in France and the Netherlands have arrested 23 people suspected of involvement in large-scale people smuggling. They are believed to have smuggled 10,000 Kurdish migrants into the UK from France.