[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has lashed out at European governments for last week’s drowning of some 200 migrants in the Mediterranean saying their current strategy of keeping migrants out of Europe is not working. In a … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) described last week the routes from sub-Saharan Africa into Libya and across the Mediterranean to Europe, as one of the “world’s deadliest and most dangerous for children and women”, noting that nearly … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Increased border restrictions and lack of accessible legal ways to reach Europe have caused refugees and migrants to take more “diversified and dangerous journeys”, such as relying on people-smugglers or using flimsy boats to cross rough seas, … Read More
A new report on migration shows that many of the bodies of migrants that drowned between January 2015 and June 2016 in the Mediterranean were never identified, and families at home face never finding out what happened to their loved … Read More
About 1,000 people of various nationalities, including refugee families and unaccompanied children, have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea in operations coordinated by Frontex, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said on Friday. In one operation carried out on Thursday, May … Read More
