Latvia has become the latest Baltic state to start pushing back migrants hoping to cross its border from Belarus. Dozens were turned back on Tuesday night under a new state of emergency declared by the government in Riga.
InfoMigrants By InfoMigrants Published on : 2021/05/28
Almost 500 migrants were returned to Libya by the coast guard on Thursday. The International Organization for Migration said all were taken to detention centers.
The UN migration agency, IOM, said that 308 people, including five children, were intercepted by the Libyan coast guard on Thursday, May 27. The migrants had set off in three rubber boats and a wooden boat from the Libyan city of Zuwara, west of Tripoli. More than a hundred of the migrants were from Sudan.
Earlier the same day, another boat carrying 187 people was also intercepted. The IOM said that they were provided with emergency assistance before being taken into detention centers.
InfoMigrants By Charlotte Oberti Published on : 2021/04/23
More than 18,000 unaccompanied migrant minors have gone missing in Europe in the past three years, an investigation has found. Adriana Homolova from the journalists collective Lost in Europe says that number is far too high.
Between 2018 and 2020, more than 18,000 unaccompanied migrant children disappeared in Europe, according to data collected by Lost in Europe in 31 countries – including in the European Union, Norway, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Moldova. Although the data was often incomplete, and in some cases absent altogether, the confirmed number of missing migrant children remains astonishingly high.
According to the journalists’ partial findings, Italy ranked the highest in the number of recorded disappearances, with 5,775 missing migrant minors, followed by Belgium with 2,642, Greece with 2,118 and Spain with 1,889.
By ANSA Published on : 2021/03/17
The EU high representative for foreign affairs, Josep Borrell, has declared that a migrant deal between Europe and Turkey remains valid. He said the accord reached five years ago has produced tangible results.
The European Union s most senior foreign affairs official, Josep Borrell, on Monday affirmed the validity of the EU pact with Turkey on migration. Borrell was responding to journalists who asked him whether the accord would be renewed. The EU-Turkey Declaration remains valid and must be implemented and will continue to remain the fundamental framework for cooperation and migration, Borrell said. It is a commitment of reciprocal trust that calls for continuous efforts on everyone s part. It has been much criticized but I think it has produced tangible results, he said.
InfoMigrants By Sertan Sanderson Published on : 2021/03/09
The Council of Europe (CoE) has published a new report about developments in Europe s response to the migration situation on the continent. The document highlights a series of shortcomings that have marginalized and endangered migrants especially during the COVID crisis.
Among the most important trends related to the European migration situation, the report highlighted that in the past two years – since publishing its last paper – the ongoing lack of adequate search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean remained a major point of concern. Though the statistics show a reduction in the number of people attempting sea crossings, and therefore a decrease in deaths at sea in absolute terms, the Missing Migrants project run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) recorded over 2,600 deaths in the Mediterranean in the second half of 2019 and in