At least two people have been injured after an airstrike hit a target close to a detention center in Tripoli where more than 500 migrants are being held. The United Nations refugee agency has demanded that all migrants in conflict-affected areas in and around the Libyan capital be immediately moved to safety.
The City of Paris has announced that it is opening the doors of its long-awaited “Refugee House”, an activity center aimed at migrants and refugees, in June. The center will house a library and a café, and offer a host of activities, including computer workshops and conversational French classes.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini wants to close the migrant tent camp in San Ferdinando, southern Italy. "By the end of my mandate, there will be no tents left here," he said during a visit to the site.
In the north of Paris, at Porte de la Chapelle, hundreds of migrants camping under the ring road are being subjected to an onslaught of drug addicts, who are living a few meters away. In light of the junkies’ volatile behavior, organizations are making fewer and fewer trips to the camp, to the detriment of asylum seekers.
In Saint-Herblain, on the outskirts of the western French city of Nantes, an abandoned sports hall has become a squat for hundreds of migrants. The living conditions in the squat are dire, and the occupants say they have been left to fend for themselves. “Where’s the government?,” a 27-year-old Guinean wonders.
Claire Paccalin on the Greek island of Lesbos meets a family struggling to keep their lives together while living in the Moria refugee camp.
A 28-year-old Gambian migrant named Gaye Demba, who once lived at the occupied former Olympic village in Turin known as the ex-MOI, killed himself at a reception center run by the Diocese of Turin.
Italy's guarantor for the rights of detainees has urged authorities to order the detention of migrants in Permanent Centers for Repatriation (CPR) “only if necessary” and for the“shortest” amount of time possible.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, was set up with a temporary mandate in 1950. Nearly 70 years later it is still trying to empower refugees and improve their situations wherever they are. InfoMigrants spoke with Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements when she was in Bonn, and asked her about the situation in Europe.
Italian authorities have demolished ten illegal buildings used by migrants in the southern area of Borgo Mezzanone near Foggia. The buildings were used as shops but also featured a nightclub and a brothel.
Moroccan authorities were responsible for 340 'irregularities' against migrants in 2018, the Moroccan Association for Human Rights claims. It accuses Morocco of turning reception centers into "collection centers ahead of expulsion."
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published a report on the lack of food and alarming malnutrition in migrant detention centers in Libya, where children suffer especially badly. MSF calls upon Libyan authorities to, among other things, release all children under 18 and ensure their wellbeing.