Germany's federal government has launched a funding program to establish new advice services for organizations that assist people in their asylum procedures. The service is intended to be completely independent of the authorities which are in charge of processing asylum cases.
A new report suggests that migrants and refugees are being pushed back within the European Union from Italy to Greece under what many have described as "inhumane" circumstances. Even though the practice is highly illegal, hundreds of potential asylum seekers seem to have been affected by it in recent years.
Richie Nath is 27-year-old painter who fled Myanmar after the 2021 military coup. He is now a refugee in Paris where he continues to paint artworks criticizing the Burmese military junta's brutal repression of dissent. Rights groups and investigative media have documented Myanmar's systematic killing, enforced disappearance, torture, rape and other sexual violence against protesters since the coup and the country's continued ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas since 2012.
The number of Iranian asylum seekers coming to Germany has risen significantly since the onset of the latest wave of protests in the country. That's according to a report published in the news magazine, Der Spiegel.
After a report leaked by Spiegel magazine, Germany's foreign minister called in Athens for an investigation into alleged pushbacks by Greece's border patrol that Frontex knew and did nothing about.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government has begun to overhaul Germany's immigration system to allow more migrants to stay in the country. Refugee rights organizations say the measures don't go far enough.
Many Bangladeshis who come to Cyprus hoping to find work end up in refugee camps in the EU country. They blame human traffickers for their ill fate.
The European Union wants to take in millions of refugees from Ukraine, in a move that could inadvertently shift the decades-old fight over asylum and migration policy. Bernd Riegert reports from Brussels.
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.
After fleeing political violence in Burkina Faso almost 20 years ago, Hamado Dipama ended up in Germany entirely by chance. Now that he has made Munich his home, he remains politically active and dedicated to social justice.
Lawyers working with the German Foreign Office have allegedly revealed the sexual identity of gay, lesbian and bisexual refugees to their home countries. The Lesbian and Gay Association of Germany (LSVD) referred to these instances as "human rights abuse" that has to be stopped immediately.
According to a new UN report, gays who come out in Iran do so at their own peril. Their only recourse is often political asylum.