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Tito Martin gives a lesson of Spanish in his private garage to migrants who have arrived on the island by boat on July 21, 2021 | Photo: Borja Suarez/Reuters
  • Spain

Canary Islands: Spaniard uses his garage as language school for migrants

As authorities on Spain's Canary Islands keep struggling with the ongoing arrival of a large number of irregular migrants, a local man has turned his garage into a classroom to give Spanish lessons to the new arrivals.

Little Amal puppet in London, UK | Photo: Nick Wall (via DW)
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Syria

'Little Amal': Larger-than-life refugee puppet tours Europe
DW's Alexandra von Nahmen with Lithuanian border guards Vitautas and Justas | Photo: Alexandra von Nahmen
  • Belarus
  • Lithuania

Patrolling Lithuania's border with Belarus
A destroyed house near Mayschoss-Altenahr | Photo: Ekaterina Venkina
  • Germany

In the German flood zone: 'It's like reliving the war'

Two weeks after the flood disaster in western Germany, the region is struggling to come to terms with what has happened. Refugees and migrants who once came to the Ahr Valley to build a new life are now facing difficult decisions ag1

Kimia Alizadeh missed out on the podium in Tokyo but still made for an inspiring story | Photo: Picture-alliance
  • Japan
  • Iran

Tokyo Olympics: Kimia Alizadeh and her fight against her critics

Kimia Alizadeh is labeled many things: heroine, enemy of the state, refugee and Olympic bronze medalist in taekwondo. She thinks she failed in Tokyo after missing the medals podium — but the opposite is the case.

Cyrille Tchatchet II hopes to win big at the Olympic Games in Tokyo | Photo: Niklas Halle'N/AFP
  • Japan
  • United Kingdom
  • Cameroon

From homeless to Olympic glory: One refugee's story of overcoming the odds

Cyrille Tchatchet II is about to make history at the Tokyo Olympics: The weightlifter was selected for the International Olympic Committee's refugee team, making him the first UK-based refugee Olympian. But he never forgets the diff1

From file: Migrants and refugees arrive on a dinghy on the coast of Skala Sikamias, on the island of Lesvos, Greece, 13 November 2019 | Photo: EPA/DIMITRIS TOSIDIS
  • Turkey
  • Greece
  • Germany

70 years later, the UN refugee convention faces steep challenges

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has called on countries around the world to defend the principles of the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Various experts have expressed concern over t1

According to the UNHCR, around 70,000 people have arrived in Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of 2018 as they escape violence in Ituri province | Photo: Reuters/J.Akena
  • Germany
  • Burkina Faso

Is the Geneva Refugee Convention living up to the times?

As the UN document turns 70 years old, experts say there is a lack of political will to implement the rights of refugees under the agreement. Countries in Africa are already moving beyond it.

From file: The detention center for migrants pending deportation at Zinnergasse in Vienna, Austria | Photo: Georg Hochmuth/APA/picture alliance
  • Afghanistan
  • Austria

Austria murder fuels deportation debate

The brutal murder of a 13-year-old girl in Austria is at the center of a political debate on deportations to Afghanistan. Rights groups have accused the government of instrumentalizing the crime.

The ministerial decision has led to uncertainty and stress for asylum seekers in Greece | Photo: EPA/Kostas Tsironis
  • Somalia
  • Pakistan
  • Afghanistan

Asylum seekers facing rejection in Greece: 'We cannot clap with one hand'

"Stress, nightmares and no future": this is the impact of Greece’s latest twist in migration policy on one young Afghan asylum seeker. A new law passed in June means thousands like her could be left without a home or status, or held1

Copenhagen is currently the only capital in Europe to have deemed the region around the Syrian capital Damascus to be sufficiently safe to send refugees from the area back there
  • Syria
  • Denmark

Denmark's tightening of immigration policy causes concern for Syrian refugees

Last month, Denmark's parliament voted a law allowing it to send asylum seekers to reception centres outside the European Union. Rwanda is among the potential host countries the Danes are negotiating with. It's the latest move in a1

Migrant farmworkers in the Italian region of Calabria | Photo: ANSA/Quotidiano Del Sud
  • Cameroon
  • Italy

Secret slaves: Indian farm workers in Italy

Tens of thousands of Indians, mainly Sikhs from the Punjab region, live and work in Italy’s Pontine Marshes. Most live like slaves, in spite of ongoing efforts to bring attention to the problem.

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