The Ocean Viking rescue ship is back in the central Mediterranean for the first time in six months. Salvini appears before court over blocking migrants at sea. Since the beginning of the year, at least 42 people went missing at sea and 18 deaths were recorded. On 11...
Two more lives have been confirmed lost as deceased bodies were found aboard boats rescued on 4 January and 10 January, bringing the death toll of people trying to reach the Canary Islands to six in 2021 so far. Just over 2,000 people have been transferred from the...
Hundreds of asylum seekers are on hunger strike protesting conditions in the former army barracks in Kent. The Home Office is ignoring complaints from asylum seekers at Penally military camp over food quality and conditions. UK’s largest detention and removal centre...
Civil society organisations are alarmed over French authorities continued evictions of migrants from their tents and other belongings despite the freezing temperatures in Calais. Journalists are effectively prevented from covering the evacuations and dismantling of...
On 12 January a deportation flight took off to Afghanistan which ranks least peaceful country in the world. In 2020, fewer people have applied for asylum while asylum procedures in anchor centres took longer than average. This week, 26 people whose asylum claims had...
Violent pushbacks continue with another incident in the Evros region on 29 December. Yet another life lost at the Aegean where a 26-year old woman drowned on 4 January. Four children were injured on 26 December when 12 armed people attacked an accommodation centre for...
As temperatures drop below zero, about 2,500 people are sleeping rough in the northwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) of which several hundreds remain in squalid conditions at the burned-down Lipa camp that was destroyed by a fire on 23 December. While housing...
265 people rescued by the NGO Open Arms disembarked in Italy, where survivors and crew members were placed in quarantine. At least 35 people drowned within the past two weeks in the Mediterranean Sea. Rescue capacity remains low as the civil fleet continues to be...
Four dead bodies were found onboard a boat carrying 47 people, landing in Tenerife on 5 January. 15 people lost their lives on 23 December after authorities failed “to act quickly” to alerts of a boat in distress in Spanish waters. Concern over conditions for 2,500...
In a landmark ruling, refugee status has been granted relating to a person’s non-binary identity for the first time in a UK Court. This comes amidst critique of the Home Office for failing to compensate Windrush victims despite plans to fast-track payments. The Home...
