Many migrants do not have access to state support and health care in Italy because they cannot register their residency, according to Action Aid. The NGO is demanding local authorities end the practices that exclude many migrants from city registries.
Fears continue to grow for the health of hundreds of undocumented migrants in Belgium who have stepped up a hunger strike aimed at getting the authorities to let them stay. The migrants have been refusing to eat for two months.
Migrant rights activists staged a protest in Rome because of a vote to renew Italy's cooperation with Libyan authorities. They demanded Italy stop funding and training Libya's coast guard, given that migrants returned to Libya face severe human rights abuses.
A young Afghan man was taken into custody as he was preparing the paperwork for his wedding. He was deported to Afghanistan as part of a collective deportation on Tuesday, despite the deteriorating security situation in the country, leaving his fiancé in shock.
Amnesty International has launched a petition, demanding the Greek government end its alleged pushbacks of refugees and migrants. The organization recently released a report, accusing Greek authorities of illegally returning potential asylum seekers to Turkey.
A prominent figure in the Algerian pro-democracy movement Hirak was found among a group of migrants on a boat heading to Spain. Chems Eddine Laalami and others on the boat were, however, intercepted by the Algerian coast guard, a rights group said Tuesday.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales, has highlighted that public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic cannot have the effect of denying asylum and protection to migrants. He denounced to the Human Rights Council last week the practice of collective expulsions carried out by some countries.
NGOs and groups working with migrants in the Florence area signed an open letter to the city authorities denouncing the "unsustainable situation" that "hundreds of foreign citizens are facing at the time they access the offices of the Florence police for stay permit procedures."
Greece's decision to consider Turkey a safe third country is "unacceptable," 38 humanitarian organizations have argued in a letter to the Greek government and the European Union. Greece recently declared Turkey safe for asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The UK government acted unlawfully when it housed six asylum seekers at the Napier military barracks, a court ruled on Thursday. The facility failed to meet minimum standards, the judge found. The interior ministry said the barracks would continue to house asylum seekers.
Due to unanswered distress calls, obstruction of humanitarian rescue efforts and pushbacks to Libya, the EU shares blame for the deaths of hundreds of migrants traveling across the Mediterranean route, a United Nations report finds.
A new law passed by the Spanish parliament prohibits stripping migrants under age 18 to ascertain their age, a method that the UN has said violates the migrants' dignity. The law will come into force in June.