52 charities signed an open letter to council leaders all over England to demand "urgent steps […] to protect and support vulnerable migrants" during the Covid-19 pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of migrants could be at risk of starvation, they say, as support networks are suspended during the lockdown.
Belgium could do better in its treatment of migrants without papers, a new report by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) finds. In some migrant services, though, the country has made progress since the last report in 2013.
Border police in northwestern Italy arrested 10 people who allegedly took undocumented migrants from Italy to France at least 16 times.
If you don’t have legal documents in a European country, it’s often extremely complicated to see a doctor. But in most European countries, there are ways to get help if you’re sick. We take a look at Germany.
Ninety migrants were picked up by British authorities as part of a large search and rescue operation, according to UK media reports. Most of them were rescued from rubber boats in the waters between France and England.
More than 800 Tunisian migrants have been detained in the Spanish enclave of Melilla for more than 5 months, Tunesian NGO Ftdes claims.
An undocumented migrant from Senegal was granted residency in Spain on Friday after he was celebrated as a hero for having saved a disabled man from a burning building last month.
Over the last year, the so-called Gilets Noirs - or Black Vests - have been holding demonstrations in France to bring the rights of undocumented migrants to public attention. But who are they?
A group of 25 Malians without papers, who had been illegally employed on a big building site in Paris in 2016, have each been awarded €34,000 in damages, with interest, for "systematic racial discrimination" by a French employment tribunal.
The Italian constitutional court has ruled that judges can drop minor crime cases against undocumented migrants if the defendants have already been deported.
Gorgui Lamine Sow, an undocumented migrant from Senegal has become a hero in Spain after he saved a man in a wheelchair from a fire in the man’s apartment. Now, the Spanish authorities are considering whether to award Sow a residency permit. More than 55,000 people have signed an online petition asking that they do so.
There were 530,000 non-EU citizens in Italy without a valid stay permit in late 2018, according to the organization Assindatcolf. That included up to 200,000 domestic workers, such as caregivers for the elderly and children and cleaners.