A Libyan-flagged tanker rescued 99 migrants and brought seven bodies to shore, including that of a little girl after the latest tragedy just off the coast of Tripoli on Friday. [caption id="attachment_4608" align="alignnone" width="960"] A survivor faints as he is brought to shore by volunteers with...
A young sailor with the Norwegian rescue vessel Siem Pilot was found after going missing for more than 48 hours. The EU Border agency, Frontex, had announced that Benjamin Olafsson, 23, had disappeared in Catania, Sicily, where Siem Pilot was docked, on 15 September. [caption id="attachment_4680" align="alignnone" width="1024"] The Siem...
EU Member states have given the green light for the bloc's military Mediterranean operation against people smugglers to go into second gear, which entails possibly boarding and seizing suspected boats, even arresting people. "This important transition will enable the EU naval operation against human smugglers and...
A Hungarian camerawoman has been fired after being caught on camera kicking a girl and tripping a man and his daughter as they ran from border police. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25a5RRh6nXs[/embed] She was exposed in footage taken by a German colleague Stephan Richter in Roeszke, Hungary and posted on Twitter. The N1TV station,...
Member states will be bound to take their share of 160,000 asylum seekers under a new plan unveiled by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in his State of the Union address on Wednesday. [caption id="attachment_4522" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the EC addresses members of the...
Have you ever wondered how four decades of global movement sounds? Applying refugee data from the United Nations from 1975 to 2012, Brian Foo, going by the name of "Data Driven DJ", shows the development of people on the move, using sound. [embed]https://vimeo.com/132833445[/embed] His piece was inspired by The Refugee Project, an...
Germany can deal with half a million asylum seekers each year for some years, the country's Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said. [caption id="attachment_4503" align="alignnone" width="1005"] Germany's Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel[/caption] "I believe we could certainly deal with something in the order of a half-milllion for a few years," he...
One hundred and eighty thee bodies were recovered form the shores of the coastal town of Zuwara in the wake of a tragedy that saw a boat with some 450 people capsize around five miles off shore last week. [caption id="attachment_4499" align="aligncenter" width="1143"] Dozens of body bags...
Pope Francis has launched an appeal to all European parishes and religious communities to take in one family of refugees each in a gesture of solidarity. "I appeal to the parishes, the religious communities, the monasteries and sanctuaries of all Europe to ...
Search and rescue charity MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) has received more than €1 million in donations from all over the world in the past 48 hours. [caption id="attachment_4472" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Eritrean children rescued in MOAS's latest mission in the Mediterranean. Photo: MOAS[/caption] Since heartbreaking photos...