MCP • Migration Country Profiles [ Click on the picture to access the portal ] The Migration Country Profiles project aspires to contribute to a better understanding of migratory trends across Africa and the Middle East towards Europe. The project focuses specifically on...
April 2015 was the deadliest month on record for migrants crossing from Libya to Europe with an estimated 1,250 people perishing in just two accidents off Libya. NANCY PORSIA spoke to one of the survivors from that dark month in the Mediterranean’s history who gave...
When ISIS was defeated in Sirte in December 2016, dozens of women and children held hostage by the terrorist group thought their nightmare was over. Some of the enslaved women had managed to escape during the terror group’s almost two-year reign in Libya’s central coastal...
Migrants face “cruel and violent treatment” at the hands of Hungarian officials. A scathing report issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) reveals that migrants are severely beaten by authorities before being sent back across the border to Serbia. “I haven’t even seen such beating in the movies,”...
The six richest countries host only 8.8% of the world’s refugees, according to an Oxfam report. The United States, China, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom constitute almost 60% of the global economy; yet only host 2.1 million refugees collectively. While Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, Palestine, and South...
British Prime Minister Theresa May has begun forming her cabinet – appointing a new Foreign Secretary was on the top of her to-do list. Britain will need a strong figure to negotiate its exit from the EU- May has declared Boris Johnson is the man...
A photographer who was onboard a migrant vessel from which four young Eritrean men were discovered dead said people inside the vessel's hold were packed so tightly it would have been easy for survivors not to realise that they had died. “People are packed so tightly in the hold," said...
The European Parliament has made a statement condemning Myanmar for its ‘systematic persecution’ against the Rohingya. The parliament passed a resolution on Thursday, that MP’s expressed deep concern for he stateless ethnoreligious group. The resolution urges Myanmar to “ensure free and unimpeded access” to the United...
More than 15,500 asylum seekers have received temporary residency cards, in an effort to register asylum-seekers in mainland Greece. An Afghan family talks with UNHCR staff while waiting to collect their newly issued ID’s by the Greek Asylum Service. © UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis Some 49,000 people currently lack access to...
Syrian refugees in Turkey could become citizens, Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in the Turkish border town of Kilis. "We will give the chance to [acquire] citizenship by helping out these brothers and sisters by monitoring through offices set up by the ministry," Erdogan said...