On October 24, 2016, the French interior minister announced the dismantling of the 'Calais Jungle'. This huge informal settlement had housed up to 10,000 migrants. Five years later, the Calais area is still a key departure point for1
Notwithstanding the risks of embarking on a journey fraught with dangers and even death, scores of migrants are choosing to put their destinies in the hands of local smugglers in Iraq to get into the EU via Belarus.
In the last few weeks, more and more migrants have been arriving at the Alpine borders between Italy and France. Onward travel for migrants has been hampered by what authorities say are anti-COVID measures. That has led to some volu1
For migrants trying to survive in the woods on the Polish-Belarus border, the winter is set to put many lives at risk.
More and more human rights groups, NGOs and international bodies are joining calls to free three migrants who convinced the captain of a merchant ship to not return more than 100 migrants to Libya two years ago. Meanwhile, a new rep1