As Germany prepares to pull its military out of Afghanistan, the country’s defense minister says she could be prepared to offer protection to up to 520 Afghan translators and their families.
A total of 113 migrants on seven small boats arrived safely in the UK port of Dover on Monday. About 72 were stopped from crossing by the French authorities.
The IOM in Bosnia has called for the international community to take "urgent action to end violent pushbacks and collective expulsions of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, including minors, along the Croatian border with Bosnia Herzegovina."
The Berlin state Office for Refugee Affairs (LAF) hopes to start vaccinating residents in asylum seeker centers against COVID-19 this month. Migrants in communal facilities are considered a "high priority" in Germany's vaccine rollout.
Maher is a journalist. He and his family are originally from Iraq. Maher has waited nearly 16 months for his asylum case to be decided. With no permission to work and no access to education for his four daughters, he is currently on hunger strike in a reception center in Germany. He hopes that this will speed up a transfer and a decision.
Migrants are not a priority for receiving COVID-19 vaccination in Greece. The Migration Minister has said that asylum seekers in camps will begin to be vaccinated in May.
EU officials accuse the governments of several countries of a lack of cooperation when it comes to readmitting citizens whose asylum applications have been rejected within the bloc, a German newspaper reports.
Far fewer people applied for asylum in the European Union in 2020 than in previous years. Germany, Spain and France saw the highest number of applications; Cyprus the most per capita.
A total of 183 migrants on board six small boats crossed the English Channel from France to UK on Tuesday, March 23. That is the highest number in one day so far this year.
A 25-year-old Afghan man, father to a five-year-old child who died in November in an attempt to reach the Greek island of Samos from Turkey by boat, has spoken out about being charged with endangering his son's life by the Greek authorities and why he is bringing a counter-case against the Greek coast guard.
UNHCR has expressed concerns over a recent decision by the Hungarian government that "restricts access to asylum" in the country and has asked the government to ensure the rights of asylum seekers to enter the country and request protection.
A group of scouts from the city of Taranto in southern Italy has met with asylum seekers to mark World Thinking Day. The scouts donated "tiles of peace", which will be installed in three symbolic locations of the city.