Tag: migrants
illegal migrants singled out
In South Africa, a gang rape, committed last week against eight women during the filming of a clip near an abandoned mine in the suburbs of Johannesburg, stirs up anger.…
Frontex knew of illegal deportations of migrants to Greece, report says
A confidential report by the European Anti-Fraud Office, dated February, points out that the European coastguard agency Frontex was aware of illegal returns of migrants from Greece to Turkey and…
Close to 1,500 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean
Published: Less than 1 hour ago fullscreen Efforts to rescue distressed migrants in the Mediterranean. Archive image. Photo: Hannah Wallace Bowman/MSF/TT On Thursday, nearly 1,500 migrants traveling across the Mediterranean…
Refoulement of migrants in Greece: what the overwhelming report says Frontex
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more than 430 migrants stranded on SeaWatch3 off Agrigento
In the Mediterranean, crossings are increasing. More than 1,000 people have been rescued in recent days by humanitarian ships operating at sea on board, the passengers, exhausted or traumatized, are…
17 migrants dead in boat accident off Bahamas
“Rescue workers have recovered 17 bodies from the water,” Prime Minister Philip Davis said in a statement posted on Twitter. Among the dead are 15 women, a man and a…
800 dead migrants in the Mediterranean so far this year
In the past 24 hours, 674 migrants in distress have been rescued and five people found dead by the Italian coast guard. The migrants were taken to a refugee facility…
More than a thousand migrants land in Italy in a few hours
More than a thousand migrants have landed in Italy in recent hours and hundreds more are waiting for a port of reception, NGOs and Italian authorities said on Sunday. Each…
Migrants are moved from overcrowded Lampedusa
Published: Just now full screenMigrants on Lampedusa queue to leave the island. Stock Photography. Photo: Renata Brito / AP / TT The Italian navy has begun moving the first 600…
Migrants are moved from Lampedusa
“2,100 people have been packed in the reception center at Lampedusa, and there are beds for 200. These could be pictures from Libya, but no, it’s Italy,” Giusi Nicolini, former…