Legal proceedings began in Germany and Spain on Wednesday against suspected former members of IS. In Spain, two women repatriated from Syria after marrying IS members were remanded in custody on terror-related charges. In Germany, a woman accused of being an IS-member went on trial in Koblenz.
Leprince* fled Cameroon for Cyprus, where he landed by plane in 2019. Since then, he has started a family but the living conditions of asylum seekers on the island make their daily life very difficult. The young Cameroonian admits to sometimes "being on the verge of suicide".
The Pro Asyl charity in Germany has called for the dismissal of the trial against three young migrants accused of terrorism in Malta. The migrants from Guinea and Ivory Coast were rescued in the Central Mediterranean in 2019 by a freighter, which brought them to Malta.
Five children and a woman have reportedly drowned in the Aegean Sea, while five people remain missing. Turkish authorities have accused Greek officials of pushing the migrants back towards Turkey.
Six people, including two babies, died of dehydration on a migrant boat that arrived on Monday in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo. The survivors were in a serious condition.
Dutch authorities have opened a probe in the death of a baby at an overcrowded center for asylum seekers. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) meanwhile denounced the "inhuman" conditions at the facility.
Despite earlier promises, the Taliban has banned girls from attending school beyond the 6th grade. However, activists remain defiant, with schools for girls being set up in secret.
Tunisian coast guards returned more than 250 migrants who were attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the North African country's National Guard said on Sunday.
More than five months after the beginning of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, over 150,000 Ukrainian students are registered in German schools. The news comes as the number of refugees who've fled Ukraine reached the ten million mark this week.
Save The Children published a new report denouncing the fact that one in four victims of human trafficking in Europe is a minor, and launches the alarm on e-trafficking.
UNICEF and IOM (International Organization for Migration) launched new migrant child protection guidelines to safeguard them from climate change. In 2020 approximately 10 million children became displaced due to meteorological-induced shocks, the agencies said.
UNICEF is sounding the alarm over the risk that children fleeing the war in Ukraine could be trafficked and exploited. More than 1.5 million minors have fled the country since the beginning of the conflict.