Germany and Switzerland have agreed to strengthen police controls to prevent migrants from crossing their common border. The move follows claims that Swiss authorities have been helping irregular migrants to reach Germany and France.
The human rights organization Amnesty International has accused the governments of Spain and Morocco of using "unlawful and lethal force" at the border between Melilla and Morocco in June this year. Amnesty holds them responsible fo1
Undocumented migrants who leave their countries in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region are increasingly risking death as they near their destination in southern Africa. Many of them are young Ethiopians.
The organization Human Rights Watch accuses the EU's border agency Frontex of being complicit in abuse in Libya. It says the use of aerial surveillance enabled the Libyan coast guard to return migrants to that country.
The volunteer rescuers of the National Society for Rescue at Sea (SNSM) carry out thousands of operations each year off the French coast, particularly in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais regions. Faced with an increasing number of migrant1