UNICEF and Save the Children said that in the four months that their joint border program has been active, they have provided assistance to more than 130 families and 570 unaccompanied minors in Ventimiglia and Lampedusa.
Eight associations in Italy have been chosen as part of the 4th edition of PartecipAzione, the program funded by INTERSOS and UNHCR to promote active participation by refugees in Italian economic, social and cultural life.
The Italian interior minister has met with Libyan leaders in Tripoli. Migration was at the top of the agenda as ministers from both countries “reaffirmed the importance of their bilateral relations.”
There are two investigations in Italy, looking in to the delayed disembarking of migrants involving former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini as defendant. The cases are now being heard by preliminary investigative judges in Sicily.
Close to 27,000 asylum requests were filed in Italy in 2020 – 39% fewer than in 2019, according to the Italian Refugee Council. Roughly three in four asylum requests examined by Italian authorities were rejected.
Italy's national detainee rights chief has said that severe problems remain at the country's migrant repatriation centers (CPRs). He is calling for structural changes as well as "legislative intervention."
Five new shelters that will house migrant and refugee families and minors are to open in Ventimiglia, in northern Italy. The centers will also host Italians who are in need.
The EU operation monitoring the arms embargo against Libya, named Irini, is entering its second year. Despite being active in the Mediterranean, it has not rescued any migrants.
Italian authorities uncovered a criminal organization in Sicily that was operating as a "wedding agency," with single women who needed money and were willing to marry foreigners who needed to be married in order to legally stay in Italy.
On April 3, Alarm Phone reported the presence of three boats in the Maltese Search and Rescue regions. The people on two of the boats were rescued and taken to Lampedusa. An estimated 110 people on the third boat appear to still be unaccounted for, what has happened?
Prosecutors in Genoa have opened two investigations after a television program in Italy broadcast a video showing a group of police officers hitting two migrants on a train between Genoa and Ventimiglia. The migrants had holed up in a bathroom of the train.
Caritas and Save The Children have set up a 'Child-Sized Space' to give children transiting through with their families a calm space for recreation. The large tent was created to offer support and protection to families traveling with their young children.