Another flight from Greece has brought more than 100 refugees to Germany, around half of them sick children and their close relatives as well as unaccompanied minors. This brings to over 1,000 the number of people Germany has taken in since April.
26 more refugee families have arrived in Germany from Greece. A plane carrying 101 refugees touched down Friday in the city of Hanover.
One week after flames swept through the Moria migrant camp, thousands of people from Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa are still living alongside a stretch of road on the island of Lesbos. They sleep rough in makeshift shelters and have very limited access to food and water supplies. InfoMigrants reports.
A total of 118 migrants have left Greece Thursday on a plane bound for Germany. The transfer was part of a European effort to get hundreds of vulnerable children and their close family members out of camps on the Greek islands amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In a new report, Save the Children says little has changed for more than 200,000 unaccompanied children who have sought asylum in Europe over the past five years. They "continue to drown on the EU's watch," the NGO said.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has urged Libya to release more than 200 migrant children who have recently been intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea and returned to Libya.
Bavaria, North-Rhine Westphalia and other states in Germany have announced they will take in several families with sick children currently living in squalid conditions in Greek refugee hotspots.
The transfer of a group of unaccompanied migrant children from Greece to Portugal this week has brought them a step closer to a life of safety. But as thousands of children remain behind in squalid migrant camps, their mental health is being pushed to breaking point.
Some believe that if they give birth on European soil, they will somehow receive a residency permit or some form of protection. Let's look at what the law says about this.
Nearly 1,800 cases of missing children among unaccompanied migrants in Germany have been registered, according to a parliamentary enquiry. The number, however, has been falling steadily.
UNICEF and WHO have warned that over 250,000 babies are at risk in Libya because there's not enough vaccines available. They are worried that this could lead to measles and polio outbreaks. Refugee, migrant and displaced children in particular lack access to vaccines.
Three Italian associations have appealed against the 'nursery school bonus' created to support families during the coronavirus crisis, claiming it is discriminatory because it excludes "families of foreigners who have resided in Italy for a short period of time".