Last year more than 23,000 people arrived on the Canary Islands from the West African coast, and figures for the first four months of this year, comments Boelpap in his radio report, show that trend accelerating. According to one Spanish NGO on the Canary Islands, about 1850 people died attempting the Atlantic crossing last year, making that route to Europe one of the most deadly.
Urgent rescue mission We descended to 500 feet and we discovered that there were three people who were conscious, explains one of the Spanish military crew, Captain Alex Gomez.
A screenshot of the Search and Rescue helicopter from the Spanish military used in the mission | Source: BBC Video
InfoMigrants By Emma Wallis Published on : 2021/04/22
The last flight carrying recognized refugees from the Greek Islands landed in Germany on Thursday, April 22. On board were 103 people, including several children. The last relocation flight from Athens with 103 refugees on board has landed in Germany, tweeted the German branch of the UN migration agency on Thursday, April 22.
Der letzte Relocation-✈️ aus Athen ist mit 103 Geflüchteten in gelandet.
Seit April 2020 hat Deutschland 2.765 Schutzbedürftigen aus einen #Neuanfang in Sicherheit ermöglicht. Wir haben die Initiative gerne unterstützt und sagen: Danke @BAMF Dialog und @BMI Bund! pic.twitter.com/B6lrqlpHBq IOM Germany (@IOMGermany) April 22, 2021
By ANSA Published on : 2021/04/21
UNICEF and Save the Children said that in the four months that their joint border program has been active, they have provided assistance to more than 130 families and 570 unaccompanied minors in Ventimiglia and Lampedusa.
UNICEF and Save the Children highlighted that they will continue working together to offer humanitarian support to refugee and migrant children, adolescents and families.
The two organizations said that in four months of a joint program to provide assistance at the borders, which ran from December 2020 to March 2021, they have assisted more than 130 families and 570 unaccompanied minors who arrived in Ventimiglia - at the northern border with France - and on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/02/26
One minor migrant out of five in Spain is undocumented, according to a report by the NGO Save the Children with the Por Causa Foundation. It said there are nearly 147,000 undocumented minors in Spain, based on the most recent statistics, which are from 2019.
The number of undocumented migrants under the age of 19 in Spain in 2019 was nearly 147,000, practically equally divided between males and females, according to the report Growing Up Undocumented in Spain (in Spanish), by the Por Causa Foundation and Save the Children.
The report said the number represents one foreign minor in five registered in city registries for that age group.
By Charlotte Oberti Published on : 2021/02/19
Eight months after arriving in France, 10-year-old Fatimate from Côte d Ivoire and her family were about to be deported back to Italy. Thanks to a protest by the girl s school, the deportation has been postponed. But it has not been cancelled.
Up until recently, Fatimate did not talk much to her fellow students about her unusual past. But then everything changed.
On February 8, the school that she attends the Fernand-Labori school in the 18th arrondissement (disctrict) of Paris rallied together to fight for her and her parents to prevent them from being deported to Italy, which was the first European country they entered. According to the Dublin regulation, they have to return there to undergo their asylum process. Since then, Fatimate has been attracting a lot more attention.