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14.04.2023, Taz
The selective border controls at the German-Austrian border are to be extended by another six months. This is the result of a letter from Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser to the EU Commission, which is available to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur. In it, the SPD politician writes that a sustainable decrease in irregular migration to Central and Western Europe is not to be expected in the foreseeable future. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Österreich / Schweiz
12.04.2023, taz
The violence against people on the move began in February with hunts. Now the police are breaking up refugee camps in front of UN buildings in Tunis. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Nordafrika
12.04.2023, Spiegel
In recent months, many people have ventured across the Mediterranean towards Italy. Rome's right-wing government has announced that it will respond with a special envoy and five million euros. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta
12.04.2023, Solidarité sans frontières
A new inhuman practice of the Croatian authorities has been observed since last week: mass deportations of people on the move to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Almost 300 people were deported within only five days in March and April 2023. These deportations are taking place in an opaque manner and represent a further escalation of the disenfranchisement of people on the move in Croatia. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Osteuropa, Europäische Union
11.04.2023, Nau.ch
Italien nimmt mindestens bis am 2. Mai keine Flüchtlinge mehr aus der Schweiz zurück. Grund dafür ist die Aussetzung des Dublin-Abkommens durch die italienische Regierung im Dezember 2022. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Österreich / Schweiz
10.04.2023, Al Jazeera
A vessel with around 400 migrants and refugees onboard is adrift between Italy and Malta as it awaits rescue from Italian coastguard, according to sea rescue support service Alarm Phone. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Europäische Union
09.04.2023, Info Migrants
Migrants hosted at a facility in the north-western Italian port city of Genoa have been forced to live in dire conditions, with only one meal a day while staying in rooms which reportedly are infested with insects and parasites. A local politician said he could not believe the run-down state of the facility. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta
08.04.2023, Afro Planete
On Saturday 7 April, a shipwreck occurred off the coast of Tunisia. According to reports, two boats set off before one of the boats carrying 49 people sank. read more
Language(s): Französisch / Français Region(s): Nordafrika
05.04.2023, Info Migrants
The private rescue ship Geo Barents spent more than 11 hours rescuing 440 people from a boat off Malta overnight. Meanwhile, the Ocean Viking disembarked 92 migrants in the Italian port of Salerno. read more
04.04.2023, La Repubblica
These are tense hours in the Mediterranean Sea, where a boat with about 500 people on the move, which has been calling for help for more than 36 hours, is adrift amid four-meter-high waves that are making rescue operations extremely complicated. The barge is in the Maltese Sar area but, as is always the case, authorities in Valletta have not sent rescue means. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Italien / Malta
04.04.2023, BBC
Ministers are facing the prospect of a legal challenge if they go ahead with plans to house asylum seekers on a barge off the Dorset coast. The Home Office is reportedly looking to use the 222-room Bibby Stockholm for the migrants under controversial plans aimed at reducing reliance on hotels [...] The government says more than £6m a day is spent on hotels for migrants. But charities say military bases and boats are "wholly inadequate places" to house people fleeing war and persecution. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Großbritannien
03.04.2023, Infomigrants
A typhoid outbreak among migrants housed on a decommissioned cruise liner last year has been found to have been caused by a sewage leak. The contaminated water made its way into freshwater supplies on board the stationary vessel, according to an investigation led by local authorities. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union
31.03.2023, Info Migrants
The Council of Europe has slammed member states for their "degrading treatment" of migrants at the borders. It said many were subjected to "punches and slap blows" by law enforcement officials. read more
31.03.2023, taz
At the Union's refugee summit, local politicians are not sparing with disaster rhetoric. The situation seems drastic in the municipalities. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
30.03.2023, Zeit Online
Geflüchtete aus Tunesien hatten wegen der Bedingungen auf Lampedusa geklagt. Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte entschied, dass Italien sie entschädigen muss. read more
30.03.2023, Amnesty International
The findings by Europe’s top anti-torture body that authorities across Europe have used practices which amount to torture to target refugees and migrants who tried to cross Europe’s borders, strengthen calls for urgent change, said Amnesty International. read more
30.03.2023, the Guardian
The Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee (CPT) said it had identified “clear patterns of physical ill-treatment” against people trying to cross borders all over Europe. read more
30.03.2023, Pro Asyl
The odyssey of Yassir* is exemplary for the European isolationist policy. In October 2021, Greek authorities pushed Yassir* back to Turkey. From there he was even deported to Syria, and now he is affected by the devastating earthquake. Our Greek colleagues from Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) are in contact with him. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Naher Osten
28.03.2023, Info Migrants
A UN fact-finding mission to Libya uncovered multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity. Migrants, in particular, have been targeted, and it said EU support to authorities have contributed to the abuse. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika
28.03.2023, The Guardian
Since the fall of Kabul in August 2021, 22,833 people have arrived in the UK from Afghanistan, nearly all of whom had at least one family member who served with the British authorities. Nearly 18 months later, about 9,000 are still living in temporary accommodation. read more
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