InfoMigrants speaks to journalist Gabriela Ramírez about the detention of refugees in Lithuania and a creative project that seeks to help them cope with their situation.
Dozens of migrants were reportedly rounded up in the Libyan capital, Tripoli on Monday. Such raids have become more regular, as migrants stuck in Libya are increasingly being scapegoated for the country's problems.
The German NGO, Pro Asyl, has urged the government to halt the deportation of asylum seekers from Germany back to Poland, citing concerns over conditions in detention centers and violations of international law.
Twenty-seven persons who suffered abuse and torture in Libyan detention centers have found shelter in Italy and will have access to specialized medical assistance. The group was evacuated at the end of June with a humanitarian flight from Libya to Italy; approximately half are now hosted in apartments offered by Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
On Thursday the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Lithuanian national law, which allows an applicant for international protection to be denied the right to asylum and placed in automatic detention on the grounds that they have irregularly crossed the border, is incompatible with EU legislation.
UN investigators revealed once more that migrants and refugees detained in Libya face serious abuse, with women especially facing sexual violence. The report highlights how females are forced to submit to rape in exchange for food. It also mentions the discovery of "dozens" of mass graves with migrants' bodies.
Tens of thousands of Ethiopian migrants are being deported from Saudi Arabia. They tell of being detained for months in miserable conditions. At home, they face an uncertain future.
Authorities in Laayoune, Morocco have been subjecting sub-Saharan migrants to constant harassment, an Ivorian in the city has told InfoMigrants. He said scores of migrants are being arrested and detained every day and "danger is everywhere."
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that migrants and asylum seekers locked up in a migrant detention center in Mykolaiv on the edge of the frontlines in southern Ukraine are in danger and need to be released.
A hunger strike by a group of Syrian asylum seekers being detained in a closed center south of Warsaw is into its ninth day. The men say they have been treated "like criminals".
Several dozen irregular migrants were reportedly trapped in a detention center in northwestern Ukraine weeks into the Russian invasion, an investigation by several media outlets found. An unconfirmed number of migrants appear to remain in the EU-funded facility, from where migrants are usually deported.
A delegation of Turkish officials accompanied by members of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) from Turkey and Italy carried out a visit to a CPR repatriation center in in the southern Puglia region in Italy. The aim of the visit was to acquire information on best practices in the management of repatriation centers and the safeguard of human rights, officials said.