Rama’s story: 'Employers always say the same thing, no asylum seekers here'
Rama* left Guinea almost three years ago because she feared for her life. She arrived in Cyprus to begin again. This is her story.
Rama* left Guinea almost three years ago because she feared for her life. She arrived in Cyprus to begin again. This is her story.
After the Russian army bombed her town, Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, Valentina Ejova decided to flee. The 72-year-old Ukrainian woman first made her way to Moldova and then to Austria. This is her story, as told to the United Nations Population Fund.
A report on the economic integration of migrants in Europe has found that women migrants face discrimination in the European labor market. Half of the immigrant women in Italy are unemployed, the researchers say.
The Hobbit Bar in Italy's northern Ventimiglia had become a popular spot for migrants and refugees passing throughout the region, providing emergency help on the spot to hundreds of people. It will now be closing after two decades in operation, as COVID regulations have made it impossible to owner Delia Bonuomo to sustain her bar.
The UN refugee agency has called for more support to address violence against women and girls who have been displaced. There has been surge in violence against female refugees amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to UNHCR.
Two women and four children were found dead in the Tunisian desert, confirmed an official on Thursday. It is presumed they "died of thirst."
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is working with local health authorities in eastern Rome to provide medical assistance to marginalized women. Services include pregnancy check-ups, cancer screenings and support for victims of gender-based violence and genital mutilation.
A 17-year old migrant girl from Ivory Coast met her Spanish rescuer in a BBC video last week. Aicha was one of three people to survive a 22-day crossing from Mauritania when she was found drifting at sea by the Spanish Air Force.
Croatian police are investigating reports that an Afghan woman was sexually harassed at the country’s border with Bosnia-Herzegovina in the middle of February. She says she was held at knife-point and asked to strip naked whilst being touched by officers.
IOM UK recently set up an online conference to showcase migrant women's resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference came a week after International Women's Day, and featured five women who had migrated to the UK from various parts of the world.
Families from Afghanistan have joined the African and Arab migrants who regularly attempt the alpine crossing from Italy to France. InfoMigrants followed a team of rescue volunteers on February 5 as they patrolled the perilous mountain paths used by asylum seekers.
A rights group found evidence of 2,000 women, including some 200 minors, in Germany last year who underwent female genital mutilation in the past and were in need of treatment, calling that figure the tip of an iceberg.