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09.02.2023, Info Migrants
Seven more people have been found alive on the Greek island of Lesbos after a shipwreck on Tuesday in which three people on the move drowned. The number of survivors now stands at 39. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
The bodies of eight deceased migrants have been transferred from the Italian island of Lampedusa to Sicily for autopsy. They were found last week on a dinghy that had set off from Tunisia for Italy. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika
More than 1,500 people died or went missing between 2018 and 2022 while trying to cross on boats from Algeria to Spain, according to the organization Caminando Fronteras. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Spanien, Nordafrika
In February, 2021, M.M. was eight months pregnant with her fourth child and was living with her family in a tent in the Karatepe migrant camp on Lesbos. Desperate to leave the camp and struggling with suicidal thoughts, she set fire to her tent with a lighter, having left the children in the care of her neighbors. She was sentenced by a Lesbos court on Wednesday (February 8) to 15 months with three years' suspension. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
The full extent of the destruction in the wake of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria this week is only beginning to emerge, as the overall death toll nears 20,000. Displaced populations and refugees appear to be disproportionately affected by the tragedy. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Naher Osten
08.02.2023, Info Migrants
Spanish rescue services say they found at least one deceased person on a rubber dinghy with 42 other people on the move on board. They were brought to Lanzarote in the early hours of Wednesday morning. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Spanien, Afrika
The Italian government has handed over a search and rescue boat to Libya's foreign minister in northeastern Italy. The cooperation between the EU and Libya is highly controversial due to the inhuman treatment of people on the move in Libya. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europäische Union
Bulgaria has again faced accusations that its border authorities have subjected people on the move to beatings, humiliation and racist language. Bulgarian authorities have denied the allegations. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten
07.02.2023, Tagesschau
The NGO Sea-Eye has criticized the Italian government after the rescue of 105 refugees. Actually, the migrants needed quick care but the helpers were directed to a distant port. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta
07.02.2023, Migazin
The Council of Europe calls on Italy to withdraw the controversial Sea Rescue Decree. It is contrary to human and international law. Italy rejects the accusations and demands more help in taking in refugees. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Europäische Union
07.02.2023, Tagesspiegel
The European Union has not had a functioning asylum pact since 2015. Now it is to be discussed again in Brussels. Can the countries reach an agreement after the disaster in Lampedusa? read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europäische Union
07.02.2023, Canarias7
Between the 30th of January and the 6th of February more than 700 people on the move arrived at the Canary Islands. The group Red canaria por los derechos de las personas migrantes gathered this Monday in front of the Government Delegation in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to denounce the "dehumanised treatment" offered by institutions and NGOs to the people on the move sheltered in care centres. read more
Language(s): Spanisch / Español Region(s): Spanien, Europäische Union
07.02.2023, Info Migrants
In the second incident this week, a boat carrying people on the move in the Aegean Sea has been shipwrecked. The dinghy carried around 41 people on board and sank after hitting rocks near the island of Lesbos. Three people have died and more than 12 are believed to be missing. The coast guard said 19 people had been rescued since the early hours of Tuesday. read more
A woman was rescued at the weekend south of Lampedusa. The woman was reportedly alone in the freezing water of the Strait of Sicily, holding on to a life jacket, hours after having fallen off a dinghy crammed with people who were attempting to cross the Mediterranean. read more
06.02.2023, Info Migrants
An Afghan woman and her underage daughter, who arrived in Denmark in 2018, are the first to qualify for residency rights under the new regulations issued last week by the Danish Refugee Committee. The country's immigration policy was adapted to specifically address the plight of women and girls from Afghanistan. With the new law, gender is now enough of a qualifier for female Afghan nationals to receive asylum in the EU member state. The ruling is in line with a recent decision issued by the EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA). read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Mittlerer Osten, Europäische Union, Europa
A shipwreck in the Aegean, off the Greek island of Leros, has left at least five migrants dead, four of whom were children. Between 36 and 41 people on the move were rescued, said the Greek coast guard. read more
According to Germany’s new Special Commissioner for Migration Joachim Stamp, the German government plans to asses its options for transferring asylum procedures to the African continent. Meanwhile, Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants the government to also focus on deportations of people with no right to remain in the country. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Deutschland
An Eritrean mother, who was separated from her three children in December while all four of them tried to board a boat to cross the Channel, has reportedly also now managed to cross the Channel and arrived in the UK. The woman’s requests to be able to legally travel to the UK to be reunited with her children were reportedly ignored. As a consequence, the woman decided to board another boat and arrived in the UK on January 25. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Frankreich, Großbritannien, Europa
06.02.2023, Human Rights Watch
In an effort to keep migrants and asylum seekers off its shores, Italy pays for tens of thousands of people to be intercepted and sent back to Libya. There, they are subjected to abuses that the UN describes as possible crimes against humanity. Italy's migration deal with Libya will be automatically extended for three years on 2 February, after the deadline for amendments expired on 22 November. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europäische Union
04.02.2023, MUGAK
About 400 people have participated this Saturday in Ceuta in the X March for Dignity, which again went throughout the whole autonomous city to the Tarajal border to denounce the "racist migration policies that each year claim the lives of thousands of people at the borders" of the European Union. read more
Language(s): Spanisch / Español Region(s): Spanien
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