An Afghan girl suffering from shock was assisted by Turin's Regina Margherita children's hospital on Saturday. It is thought the girl was pushed back with other migrants on the border between Italy and France by French police last week.
As a newly arrived migrant in France, where do you turn for food, warm clothes, accommodation or legal advice? InfoMigrants has drawn up a list of some of the main NGOs and aid groups that can help make your life in France easier.
Aid workers are increasingly alarmed about the worsening situation of the some 1,500 migrants stuck in northwest Bosnia, hundreds of whom are staying in abandoned buildings and makeshift forest settlements with little access to aid. InfoMigrants spoke with German streetwork doctor Gerhard Trabert about his patients' physical and mental health, a lack of cooperation at the expense of the migrants and what ought to happen next.
Mbaye Babacar Diouf was just 15 when he arrived in Spain after crossing the Atlantic in a small boat to the Canary Islands. On arrival, after receiving care from the Red Cross, he promised himself he would -- one day -- become a nurse. He's achieved that dream and is about to embark on his next challenge -- to become a doctor.
A Syrian refugee in Beirut set himself ablaze outside the offices of UN refugee agency, a UN official said on Thursday. Living conditions for the 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon have long been deteriorating.
The German interior ministry announced on Wednesday that a total of 139 migrants had been flown in to Hanover aiport from Greece. The flight included 51 unaccompanied minors, residents of Moria before the fire, and 88 people comprising 17 children with medical needs and their immediate families.
A border police officer in the Trieste area saved the life of an Afghan migrant, after the migrant fell ill due to cardiac problems in addition to fatigue and the summer heat.
A UK government scheme to grant permanent residency to relatives of foreign nationals who died from COVID-19 while working for the National Health Service (NHS) has been expanded to also include family members of low-paid NHS workers. Their earlier exclusion from the scheme had attracted widespread criticism.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), together with the Roma 2 local healthcare authority and Médecins du Monde (MDM) have set up a telephone service run by doctors and cultural mediators to help meet the medical needs of Italians and foreigners in reception centers and makeshift settlements in the Italian capital.
62-year-old Samar Sinjab, originally from Syria, has become the 100th physician in Italy to die from Covid-19. Sinjab continued to help patients until the day before she herself was hospitalized with the virus.
Many migrants and refugees are struggling to get by in Greece. The coronavirus pandemic has made things even worse, as many aid services had to close down or reduce their services. Here is a list of places you can still turn to, if you need food, shelter, medical advice, and the like.
Germany is turning to its migrant and refugee communities for help in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Anticipated shortages of medical staff and farm workers for this year's harvest mean jobs may be opened up to those who are normally not permitted to work.