22 January 2016 In 2013, in response to the Syrian war, Brazil was the first country in the Americas to announce the start of a humanitarian visa programme: under the regulation, Brazilian embassies in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey issued visas for Syrians and people of...
23 October 2015 According to UNHCR, despite improvements in the registration procedures, by 1st October only one third of refugees arriving in Macedonia have been registered. More problematic, many vulnerable refugees, including unaccompanied children, are not...
26 June 2015 In a new publication, “Mari e Muri”, Caritas Italiana examines the natural and artificial obstacles that migrants and refugees have to cross, as they risk their lives to seek protection and find a better, safer future. In particular, the paper...
24 April 2015 Days after what appears to be the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean, where over 800 migrants and refugees died, EU leaders gathered in an emergency summit in Brussels to decide on immediate steps to put an end to the refugee crisis in the...