In Italy, the campaign "I Was a Foreigner" is calling on the government to give undocumented migrant workers stay permits. This, they say, would ensure that there are enough farmworkers to secure the harvest, without "under-the-table...
Spain will make it easier for migrants and the unemployed to find work in agriculture. This marks the latest move in the country’s efforts to tackle a shortfall of farm workers due to the coronavirus.
34 migrants disembarked at the port of Lampedusa on Monday afternoon. Among them were 11 women, two of them pregnant. Before that, the island hadn't seen any migrant arrivals in three weeks. The migrants were transferred to the island's...
Germany will take in fifty unaccompanied minors from the Greek islands next week. Critics say this is too little, too late, given that tens of thousands of migrants and refugees remain in the overcrowded camps.
A Syrian refugee in Lebanon has taken his own life. An aid group said he was experiencing financial hardship. Many Syrians in Lebanon are struggling to get by, and the coronavirus epidemic has made the things even more difficult.
The first group of migrant children to be relocated from Greek refugee camps will arrive in Luxembourg next week. There are calls to speed up the evacuation of hundreds more unaccompanied minors before it is too late.
Fear of the novel coronavirus is growing among farmworkers near Foggia in southern Italy, the association ARCI has reported. A spokesman said that the migrant workers are now "staying in their shacks out of fear of catching COVID-19."...
53 migrants have climbed a barbed-wire fence into the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa. Spanish guards stopped more than 200 others from entering.
The organization Baobab Experience is calling on the Italian health ministry to make sure that homeless people -- both Italians and migrants -- are given shelter amid the coronavirus emergency. This, they say, is in the interest of public...
NGO ship Alan Kurdi has rescued 150 migrants from two boats off the coast of Libya. It is the only private rescue ship operating in the region right now. The coronavirus emergency could make it difficult for the ship to find a port for...
Protest organizations have found new ways to show their solidarity for migrants and refugees in times of coronavirus. Demonstrations have been largely banned because of the risk of infringing the distance required between people. Nevertheless,...
Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and lockdown measures in place in France, hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers are still sleeping rough in the Paris region. Local NGOs are providing help as best as they can. FRANCE 24's Eléonore...