aid workers

Astoun, a former refugee from Syria, is a rescue worker on board the Ocean Viking. January 7, 2023 | Photo: Michael Bunel
Sean Binder, one of the accused, said the trial was about 'human rights' | Photo: Panagiotis Balaskas/AP/dpa/picture alliance
From file: Migrants board a boat with the help of workers from Emergency Response Centre International which operated between 2016 and 2018 | Photo: ERCI
Portraits of Ukrainian refugees in Riga | Photos: Martin Thaulow
From file: 'We consider the federal admission program (for Afghan refugees) to be extremely questionable in terms of organization and content,' rights groups said in a letter to the German government | Photo: Marc Tessensohn/Bundeswehr/picture-alliance
From file: Tensions between EU nations and Belarus have been growing as migrants and refugees gather along the Poland-Belarus frontier | Photo: Oksana Manchuk/BelTa/dpa/picture-alliance
Andrea Costa, president of Baobab Experience, the Roman association that has been offering aid to migrants in transit since 2005, during a press conference at the foreign press association on April 21, 2022 | Photo: ANSA/ LAURA GIANNONI
The president of Baobab Experience, Andrea Costa, outside Tiburtina station in Rome | Photo: Massimo Percossi / ANSA
Doctors Without Borders said its team had not been allowed access to people at Poland's frontier with Belarus | Photo: Pavel Golovkin/Ap Photo/picture-alliance
From file: Border security guards surround migrants on the border between Poland and Belarus | Photo: picture-alliance
While many Afghans are desperate to leave the UNHCR says it will remain in the country | Photo: picture-alliance/dpa/M. Kappeler
Migrants on the eastern side of Tiburtina station in Rom | Photo: Massimo Percossi / Archive / ANSA