To mark World Refugee Day this June, the UNHCR is encouraging people around the world to count the steps they walk, run and cycle and register on a website. The aim? To cover the distance that refugees are forced to walk every year in order to reach safety. The campaign aims to honor the efforts families make to survive, the UNHCR says.
As many as 25,000 Syrian refugees in the Lebanese city of Arsal have been told that their homes are to be demolished from July 1. The government has extended a June 9 deadline to begin removing all refugee shelters built with materials other than timber and plastic sheeting. InfoMigrants visited one of the settlements in the city, where residents fear they will soon be left homeless.
Migration is the theme of a new mini-series, co-produced by French and German media. Under the title “Eden”, five different human stories across six episodes are woven together in an attempt to portray the extent that the current migration context has touched everyone’s lives in Europe.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published a report "Including the Excluded" on the organization's work to provide medical care to migrants and refugees living at the occupied former Olympic village in Turin known as the ex-MOI. MSF said it allowed marginalized people to enjoy their "right to health."
The conflict over Western Sahara has smoldered for more than 40 years. Morocco's offer of autonomy for the region is now on the negotiating table, but that's not enough for many of the Saharawis exiled in Algeria.
Three years after the signing of the EU-Turkey deal, some 12,000 people are still holding out on the Greek islands' 'hotspots,' while thousands more live across the mainland in dire, unhealthy and dangerous conditions. Calling Greece a "dumping ground," Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called on European leaders to take action to end the "harmful policy of containment."
The Greek Migration Ministry said Friday it had concluded a bilateral agreement with Portugal to relocate 1,000 people with a right to asylum. The first phase will start with 100 persons.
Moussa Ba is not the first migrant to die in a shanty town in Italy. Dozens have died in these makeshift settlements, in particular in the southern regions of Calabria, Puglia and Sicily. Most of them were very young immigrants.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced the deteriorating conditions in Libyan detention centers in Misrata and Kohms due to a 'sharp increase' in the number of people held, including pregnant women and children. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported violence and deaths related to fighting in Tripoli.
Two new facilities are set to open soon in a bid to ease the pressure on the overcrowded refugee camps on the north eastern Aegean islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Leros.
There is a shortage of medical staff at several Greek migrant camps. The situation has been worsened by the state's failure to appoint permanent professionals after the EU's PHILOS program – which had been supplying staff – expired.
Migrants and refugees on the Greek island of Chios are living in dire conditions. Even though the refugee camp is not as overcrowded as the Moria camp on Lesbos, migrants are also sleeping in tents because all containers in the camp are full. Given the freezing winter temperatures and long waiting times for asylum interviews, they are facing a long and harsh winter.