At least 2,400 Afghans who fled their country after the takeover of the Taliban remain in detention in the UAE, a Human Rights Watch report claims. The group says the Afghans have no legal pathways to refugee status or resettlement elsewhere.
The Danish Immigration Service declared two more areas of government-controlled Syria as "safe" for refugees to return to. Rights groups say it is another way to make refugees unwelcome.
The organization Human Rights Watch accuses the EU's border agency Frontex of being complicit in abuse in Libya. It says the use of aerial surveillance enabled the Libyan coast guard to return migrants to that country.
Refugees from Afghanistan are being violently pushed back when they try to enter Turkey, Human Rights Watch says. According to disturbing new testimonies, Turkish authorities are also deporting migrants to Afghanistan in growing numbers.
The EU is facing renewed accusations of funding human rights abuses in Libya. With growing reports of torture, extortion, slavery and murder surfacing from the North African country, migrants are joining the voices of those calling for lasting change.
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.
Human Rights Watch has made fresh allegations against Greece. The organization accuses the country not only of continuing to engage in the illegal pushback of migrants at its borders but also employing third country nationals, other migrants, to do so.
Greece's plans to collect more biometric information will likely increase racial profiling against migrants and refugees, Human Rights Watch and Homo Digitalis have argued.
In northern France, migrants seeking to cross the Channel to England face a 'daily harassment and humiliation', according to a report published by Human Rights Watch.
French police are inflicting misery on migrants in the northern port of Calais, routinely tearing down their tents and forcing them to wander the streets as part of a deterrence policy, Human Rights Watch said in a report Thursday.
Lebanese troops have foiled an attempt to smuggle dozens of Syrian migrants to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, according to the military. There have been numerous attempts over the past year to smuggle migrants to EU member Cyprus, some of them deadly.
Human Rights Watch has accused the Lebanese government of leaving refugees and migrants behind in its COVID-19 vaccination strategy. The group says the vaccination program has been "tainted by political interference and a lack of information."