The crew of German migrant rescue vessel Iuventa was awarded the Amnesty human rights award 2020 for rescuing more than 14,000 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, Amnesty Germany announced Tuesday.
By the end of 2020, the number of undocumented migrants in Italy could surpass 670,000. That is more than twice as many as only five years ago, according to a report by Amnesty International.
A global summit in Geneva is hoping to address a series of issues relating to global migration trends reaching from forcible displacement to the energy and infrastructure needs of refugees. The event, however, might also be hijacked by politicians pursuing their own agendas.
Turkey says it has expelled nearly 50,000 migrants from Istanbul, including more than 6,000 Syrians. The government says the migrants were in the city illegally and will be made to leave Turkey.
The human rights watchdog spoke with dozens of refugees who were illegally removed from Turkey and sent back to Syria without a so-called "safe zone" in place. Turkey claims they went back willingly.
According to aid group Amnesty International, Lebanese authorities forcibly deported almost 2,500 Syrian refugees back to Syria in the past three months. Lebanese officials have repeatedly said that Syrian refugees placed a massive burden on the country's ailing economy. Meanwhile, Turkey, which hosts four million refugees, has called for world coordination on the Syrian refugee crisis.
The Eritrean government ended its long period of isolation in 2018 when it signed peace accords with Ethiopia and was nominated to join the UN’s Human Rights Council. The government, however, continues to harass and intimidate its critics, even in Europe, Amnesty International reports. In a new briefing, the organization sheds light on how the abuses cause Eritrean migration on the one hand, but are sometimes facilitated by it too.
The 'Infobus' project offers free legal advice to refugees and asylum seekers in Munich. Because their volunteers were banned from offering their service inside reception centers, they went to court. Now, that court has ruled the 'Infobus' may not assist refugees inside the facilities without having been called for help.
Rights group Amnesty International says French authorities are harassing, intimidating and even assaulting people offering aid to migrants in the north of France. Activists report that this "deliberate attempt" to discourage their work is taking its toll on their own wellbeing and on those they are trying to help.
Officials working for international organizations and institutions have visited Tunisia's border areas with Libya to evaluate the resources available ahead of the potential arrival of refugees fleeing armed clashes in Libya.
Arbitrary arrests and expulsions of migrants have risen to a historic high in Algeria, Amnesty International says. The human rights organization has called on Algerian authorities to comply with international conventions.
Amnesty International has attacked Italy's government over its ''repressive management of the migratory phenomenon'' and the ''erosion of the human rights of asylum seekers'." The NGO said the choices made by Premier Giuseppe Conte's government inflict ''further suffering'' on migrants.