In the commune of Montreuil in the eastern suburbs of Paris, the 115 emergency shelter number receives hundreds of housing requests per day that cannot be met. Most calls come from homeless families. 115 responders are on the frontline of a crisis they cannot remedy. InfoMigrants reports.
A temporary refugee shelter at a former airport in Berlin, Germany, will be expanded to accommodate 3,600 Ukrainians. Many municipalities in Germany have had to create makeshift accommodation, as refugee arrivals have spiked this year.
Although authorities in the northern French port city of Calais last week activated its "Great Cold Plan" to shield homeless migrants from an approaching winter storm, hundreds of migrants were still left out in the snow. In the neighbouring town of Grande Synthe, the situation was even worse for the nearly 500 migrants living in the Puythouck forest camp.
Every evening, migrant families make their way to Porte d’Aubervilliers, one of the many entry points into Paris, which has become a meeting point for homeless migrants, in the hope they will be given a bed for the night. Each has a different story, InfoMigrants tells their stories in pictures.
Several of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies are concerned about the fate of hundreds of migrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They say there are already cases of frostbite and hypothermia among those who were left without shelter after the Lipa camp was closed last week.
The Iraqi government has said that it has launched an "emergency plan" to provide shelter for tens of thousands of displaced people after the Baghdad authorities decided in October to close refugee camps.
Many migrants and refugees are struggling to get by in Greece. The coronavirus pandemic has made things even worse, as many aid services had to close down or reduce their services. Here is a list of places you can still turn to, if you need food, shelter, medical advice, and the like.
Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and lockdown measures in place in France, hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers are still sleeping rough in the Paris region. Local NGOs are providing help as best as they can. FRANCE 24's Eléonore Vanel, Armelle Caux and Nadia Massih report.
Germany has sent goods worth more than €1.5 million to Greece to help address the recent influx in refugee and migrant numbers there. However, the German government rejected requests to take in any of the 100,000 asylum seekers stuck in Greece.
Several migrant rights associations have asked French authorities not to evict officially recognized refugees who cannot find permanent accommodation. Under French law, the refugees have three months to move out of the asylum centers after their refugee status is approved.
The “Happy Baby Community” is a charity supporting migrant mothers and their babies. It was set up in 2014 by a small group of mothers – together with two volunteers - who had fled to the UK to seek protection for them and their children. Five years later, the group has grown to include around 450 mothers, more than 480 babies and children and 65 volunteers in two locations in London. InfoMigrants' Emma Wallis visited the center in Hackney to find out more.
In Italy, Calabria's regional authorities have announced that they will grant additional funding to local administrations to provide housing to migrants in Piana di Gioia Tauro. The funds are also intended to be spent on the promotion of integration efforts.