Syrian refugee Bjeen Alhassan has been awarded Germany's 4th national integration prize. Alhassan, who came to Germany in 2014, offers digital language training and other support to female refugees via a Facebook group.
A new study undertaken in MSF emergency centers between June and July 2020 showed that there appears to be a higher coronavirus infection rate among the poorest in Paris, including migrants and those living in precarious economic an1
UN refugee chief Filipp Grandi has called on countries to be more generous in taking in people in need of protection. Grandi also lambasted governments for their xenophobic tendencies, which he said must not dominate asylum policy.
The UN Human Rights Office OHCHR has called for urgent action to deal with the horrors faced by migrants trying to cross the central Mediterranean sea and the situations they confront in Libya as well as once they reach Europe.
The number of migrants reaching northeastern Italy is "under control" but the situation in the city of Trieste "is quite complicated," the UNHCR representative for Italy declared in a recent interview with ANSA.