Oumar arrived in France when he was 16 years old and started studying catering. But as soon as he turned 18, his apprenticeship was abruptly terminated and he was ordered to leave France. This is his story.
Two unofficial migrants camps in the north of the Paris metropolitan area were evacuated by the police on Thursday, November 7 at dawn. The makeshift camps were situated at Porte de la Chapelle in the north of the French capital. The evacuations affected around 1,600 people, including numerous families who were bused to emergency accommodation.
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.
A group of NGOs in Italy and the Balkans have denounced that migrants along the Balkan migrant route continue to be illegally expelled from one state to the next. The Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe meanwhile has warned of a "humanitarian emergency" due to squalid conditions at the Vucjak migrant camp in Bosnia.
Close to 21,000 unregistered Syrian refugees and "illegal migrants" have been expelled from Istanbul since mid-July after the authorities had issued a deadline for them to leave the city and return to the provinces where they had registered. An additional 300,000 Syrians living in Istanbul face expulsion.
Migrant landings in Italy have plunged by almost 80%, but the number of repatriations has also gone down slightly, according to data released by the interior ministry on August 15. Migrant repatriations from the country have decreased by 0.7%. and the number of assisted repatriations has more than halved, the ministry said.
After an increase in protests and intolerance from the local population, the Turkish authorities have begun to crack down on migrants and refugees in the country.
According to figures released by the Italian government, 335 migrants landed in Italy between January 1 and March 15 this year, compared to 5,945 during the same period in 2018 - a 94 percent decline. Expulsions have quadrupled compared to arrivals during the same period, the vast majority of which were forced.
Spain is planning to expel 9,000 irregular migrants in 2019, nearly double the number of those it expelled last year.
Around 40 people in a holding center in Vincennes and 70 people in a center in Mesnil-Amelot, both in the Paris region, are on hunger strike. They allege police violence and a lack of access to adequate medical care; they say that their goal is to highlight the conditions in which they are being held.
The number of expulsions and forced repatriations of undocumented migrants in Spain has risen significantly in 2018 compared to the previous five years.
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.