More than 100,000 children are currently being held in migration-related detention in the United States, often in violation of international law, the UN said Monday.
Lead author of the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, Manfred Nowak, said the figure refers to migrants children currently in custody who reached a US border unaccompanied, as well as those detained with relatives and minors separated from their parents prior to detention.
"The total...
Three refugees and a five-month-old baby were targeted in an apparently racist shooting in central Germany, local media reported on Tuesday.
Four suspects fired several shots from the balcony of an apartment, while a group of refugees were walking on a nearby street in the small town Schoeningen in Lower Saxony, Der Spiegel reported.
Police said in a statement that the refugees and their baby, who were from Ivory Coast, were managed to escape unhurt with the help of two...
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced Saturday that a 9 month old baby died in the Moria refugee camp in Greece.
“We have confirmed today by the local hospital in #Lesbos that a 9 month old baby has died some days ago from severe dehydration in #Moria camp #Greece,” MSF said on Twitter.
The medical charity group said children are dying in Greece due to horrific living conditions and a lack of adequate care.
Nearly 15,000 people are trapped in Moria, among them, 5,000...
Almost 70,000 migrant children were detained in custody by border officials in 2019, a 42 per cent increase on the previous year.
New government data obtained by Associated Press reveal that 69,550 migrant children held in U.S. government custody over the past year - enough infants, toddlers, kids and teens to overflow the typical NFL stadium.
There are now more children detained away from their parents in the U.S. than in any other country, according to United Nations...
To outsiders, Diavata may seem like a sleepy village tucked in the rolling hills and bucolic landscape beyond Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city. But it's actually a flashpoint of nationalism, packed with far-right groups bent on keeping Greece for Greeks only.
Just years ago and at the height of Europe's refugee crisis, violent demonstrations emerged out of the region as authorities moved to set up some of the nation's first migrant camps.
Then, months later, locals in...
Around 600 French police took part in the evacuation which began in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Between 1,500 to 3,000 migrants, including 250 women and children, had been living in the camps that had sprung up alongside major roads, underneath motorway flyovers and bridges around the Porte de la Chapelle area of northern Paris.
The camps were also adjacent to a notorious Paris spot known as "crack hill", where drug dealers congregate and sell cheap crack cocaine to...
More than 250 illegal migrants caught on Monday by the Turkish border units in the northwestern province of Edirne claimed they were assaulted by Greek security forces before being illegally pushed back to Turkey. The migrants told Turkish security forces that they crossed the border and upon being caught by the authorities they were indiscriminately beaten.
Sayyed Habib, a Pakistani migrant, told reporters that the Greek soldiers first hit them, then forcibly took their mobile phones...
According to the latest official data, Greece is hosting 4,779 unaccompanied minors, but just over 1,200 are in secure structures. The data also shows that the number of unaccompanied minors has surged in recent months, reaching its highest point since the start of the refugee crisis in 2015.
Meanwhile, the number of daily arrivals of refugees and migrants from Turkey – an average of 500 – is the second highest since the 2015 crisis. At the same time, more than 35,000 asylum seekers...
Migrants making their way into Croatia from Bosnia are now greeted with a hard-hitting advertising campaign stating: ''Welcome to Croatia - Country of torture.''
A local NGO, ‘Inicijativa Dobrodošli’, or Welcome Initiative, is behind the campaign which aims to support refugees and protest against restrictive and abusive migrant policies.
With winter approaching, thousands of migrants, many from the Middle East, South Asia and Africa are stuck in makeshift camps in Bosnia. With...
As Greece grapples with a rising number of refugees and migrants arriving at its shores, the country's conservative government is pushing for tougher asylum legislation.
In the early hours of Friday, the Greek parliament voted in favor of a controversial bill introducing sweeping changes to the national asylum system, including cutting some options for appeal and facilitating the deportation of failed asylum seekers. The governing New Democracy party and the Socialist “Movement of...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleges the troops "committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability".
These include extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances and attacks on healthcare facilities.
The BBC has contacted Afghanistan's government for comment.
Both the UN and the New York Times have previously highlighted allegations of abuses by Afghan strike teams.
This latest report comes after peace talks between the US and the Taliban...
A European human rights watchdog on Thursday slammed living conditions as "horrible" for thousands of asylum seekers in overcrowded Greek camps, including waits spanning several hours for food and toilets and a lack of access to medicine.
Dunja Mijatovic, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, said she had witnessed people queuing for food or to use a bathroom for more than three hours at refugee camps for asylum seekers on two Greek islands.
"The people I have met...
Rasmus Paludan, leader of the immigration-critical Danish party Stram Kurs (“Hard Line”), was evacuated by the police after being attacked with powerful firecrackers during a campaign meeting in the imigrant-dense area of Tingbjerg.
“He was evacuated after holding the demonstration for 20 minutes”, Leif Hansen of the Copenhagen Police told Danish TV2.
As seen in the video provided by the party himself, Paludan's speech is interrupted by powerful bangs. According to an...
An NGO which runs the Mediterranean rescue ship Ocean Viking, with 104 migrants onboard, called on European authorities on Monday to designate a safe disembarkation spot.
French association SOS Mediterranean, along with Doctors without Borders (MSF), said among those aboard the ship are two pregnant women and 41 children younger than 18.
“Their anxiety is growing”, said Jay Berger, MSF’s project coordinator aboard the Ocean Viking. “They’re unsure of what’s going to happen to...
The Trump administration separated 1,556 more immigrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border than has previously been disclosed to the public, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has said.
The majority of the children are aged 12 and under, including more than 200 considered “tender age” because they are under five years old.
The ACLU said the Justice Department disclosed the final tally – which is in addition to the more than 2,700 children known to have...