Four months after ending their hunger strike, about fifty undocumented migrants are still occupying the Béguinage church in the center of Brussels. Despite discussions held with authorities in the summer, most of the migrants are still waiting to have their status officially regularized. They hold little hope that they will one day get papers.
Demonstrators have gathered in Warsaw to show solidarity with migrants at the Poland-Belarus border who have been turned back by Polish authorities.
Several thousand Afghan nationals who arrived in India over the past few decades are demanding greater rights for themselves, just as the country begins to take in those fleeing the current crisis.
Some 500 asylum seekers and local activists on the Greek island of Lesbos gathered late Monday evening for a peaceful protest against the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. They held up Afghan flags and banners that read "We say no to Taliban".
A giant puppet representing a Syrian girl is set to travel 8,000 kilometers – from a Turkish city near the Syrian border to England – to raise awareness for the plight of refugee children. Several of her puppeteers are refugees.
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.
Concerns are growing over a hunger strike by hundreds of undocumented migrants in Belgium's capital. Four men have stitched their lips together in protest against the authorities' refusal to grant them legal status.
An attempt to deport two migrants considered illegal by the authorities led to a neighborhood protest in the Scottish city of Glasgow last week, forcing the police to release the two foreign nationals.
About 1,000 people gathered outside the Danish parliament in Copenhagen on Wednesday to protest against the government’s plans to repatriate some Syrians who come from the area around the capital Damascus.
Deportation flights of asylum-seekers to Afghanistan remain controversial, due to the precarious security situation there.
Houthi rebels in Yemen have admitted that their forces had caused a blaze killing 45 people at a migrant center earlier in March. More than a dozen soldiers and officials will be tried in court.
Fearing deportation and racist attacks, migrants stranded in the Canary Islands have been on hunger strike recently to demand their transfer to the mainland. There have also been reports of self-mutilation.