Thanks to the project 'Leaving violence. Living safe', promoted by the association D.i.Re in partnership with UNHCR, 50 female asylum seekers and refugees have been aided this year by the group's anti-violence centers that have responded to the specific needs of victims of abuse.
Pope Francis is again establishing his own ‘humanitarian corridor’ from Greece to Italy. His latest decision is to send a close aide, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, to the Greek island of Lesbos to pick up 33 asylum seekers and bring them back to Rome.
Migrant women and teens crossing the central Mediterranean face a high risk of sexual violence, warned UNICEF on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The risk is even higher in the case of unaccompanied minors, UNICEF said.
Italian Admiral Giovanni Pettorino has said that the Coast Guard rescued 55,000 unaccompanied children between 2015 and 2018.
The procedures for family reunification for migrants in Italy are taking longer than planned; that's according to a new report by UNHCR in conjunction with Caritas and the Communitas consortium.
Italy shares responsibility for the violations of the rights of migrants in Libya, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) claim. This month the two organizations submitted a joint third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in a case involving Libya’s abuses against migrants.
Italian authorities have accused 21 people, including Italian and foreign nationals, of issuing fake documents that were presented as part of family reunification applications.
In the next ten years, the flow of new migrants could reach the record figure of about 230 million people, but in Europe the arrivals won't be enough to stop the declining number of working-age people, according to the governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco.
The City of Naples has won a call for proposals by the Italian Interior Ministry with a contract totaling one million euros for a project called "YALLA! Social Community Services" that aims to improve the level of efficiency in the social services assistance system for migrants in the city.
A survey conducted with 300 young migrants and refugees in Italy via the online platform UNICEF U-Report on the Move revealed that 54% of those surveyed had never heard of hate speech and fake news.
The Italian government has presented a new asylum decree, which would see the waiting time for an asylum decision cut from two years to just four months, resulting in faster repatriations in applicable cases. Speaking at a press conference in Rome, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said the decree would also update the list of countries considered safe for repatriations.
A spokesperson for the German Interior Ministry said the country could seek to leave the planned automatic redistribution mechanism for asylum seekers if the mechanism were to increase the number of migrants into the thousands.