The 15 minors stuck on board the Sea-Watch 3 for almost two weeks spoke to ANSA about their journey and their future dreams in Europe. They had been refused entry to Italian ports after being rescued at sea in January. Their traumatic experiences continue to haunt them.
A single meal a day, no cleaning services, migrants forced to light fires to cook - these were among the conditions at some migrant reception centers in Prato, Italy, an inquiry has found. The head of the consortium that ran these centers has been accused of misusing public funds and defrauding the state. She has been placed under house arrest.
A trial of 32 guards and workers accused of abusing refugees and migrants at a reception center in 2014 has started. The case in the small western town of Burbach has triggered widespread outrage and has forced regional governments to reassess the standards at such facilities.
Nineteen NGOs have signed a joint statement saying that the conditions at the Moria migrant reception center are worse than ever. They have called for an improvement in conditions and a reduction in the severe overcrowding of the camps on country's islands.
It took an Eritrean migrant saved by the Italian coast guard ship Diciotti three and a half years to go from Sudan to Milan, Italy. ''One dies in Libya,'' Josief said.
The 27 unaccompanied minors who disembarked the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti were "skeletons, tired, exhausted, confused", according to accounts from NGO workers who met them as they landed in Catania.
A protest in Huelva in southern Spain put a spotlight on the dire conditions of migrant farmers in the Spanish farming business. The problem is widespread: Hundreds of migrant women working in the farming sector suffer abuses - not only in Spain, but also in Italy and Morocco, as an investigative report revealed.
A recent report warns that the number of vulnerable child refugees that go missing between France and the UK is rising, signaling that they may have been trafficked.
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The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) said in its annual report that Italy doesn't offer detained migrants any complaint mechanisms. These are an essential safeguard against abuse.
The United Kingdom detains tens of thousands of people in immigration detention centers every year. Some believe that the situation is so destitute that all centers should be closed.
Some migrants claim that they were abused by Algerian officials before and during their deportations. Algeria is one of several North African countries that have not signed an African Union protocol on the free circulation of people.