The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated two million dollars in emergency funding to provide immediate humanitarian assistance to civilians affected by the conflict in Libya.
The Italian Coast Guard on Thursday intercepted a boat off the Sardinian coast with nine people onboard including two under age 18. The nine were trying to row their way to shore.
Two Saudi Arabian women who fled their families to Georgia this week have been offered help by authorities. The sisters are the latest in a stream of women using Twitter to escape the Saudi male guardianship system.
An Afghan refugee in Germany has unsuccesfully sued for compensation after being held in prison for 27 days. Both the federal government and the state of Bavaria have been absolved of wrongdoing.
Spanish charities including Proactiva Open Arms received the green light to set sail from the port of Barcelona on Wednesday. Instead of returning to the central Mediterranean to save migrants, the NGOs will deliver aid supplies to migrants...
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published a report "Including the Excluded" on the organization's work to provide medical care to migrants and refugees living at the occupied former Olympic village in Turin known as the ex-MOI. MSF...
UN refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday it has relocated 150 refugees held at a detention center in Libya, after transferring another group of refugees last week. The UN agency stressed in a statement that Libya is dangerous and migrants...
The European Parliament has called for an expansion of the EU's border protection authority. However, concerns over jurisdiction are giving many member states reason for pause.
On Wednesday April 17, the German Cabinet decided on a raft of new measures for a draft law which will be put before the German Parliament. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has been hoping to strengthen current measures in order...
The Italian Supreme Court of Cassation has definitively confirmed sentences of 20 years in jail for three human traffickers responsible for a boat rescued in the Strait of Sicily carrying 313 migrants as well as the bodies of another...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban praised Serbia for having accepted a border barrier between the two countries. The Hungarian government erected the barrier to stem the continual flow of unauthorized migrants into Hungary, and Orban...
Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj issued an appeal to "hurry" because the worsening situation in Libya could push "800,000 migrants and Libyans to invade Italy and Europe." He said among this enormous group of migrants there are also...