The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has asked for 30 million dollars in funding to assist at least 700,000 people in northwestern Syria in a statement published on December 10.
The 2024 Migrantes Report on asylum rights was presented at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome on December 11. The annual report, drafted by the Catholic Migrantes Foundation, included significant figures and analyses.
A man from Senegal who was jailed for piloting a migrant boat across the Channel to the UK has failed in his bid to appeal. At least four people died when the boat broke apart during the crossing.
The EU is to boost spending on surveillance at its borders with Russia and Belarus. The move is intended to stop the two countries sending migrants over the borders in what the EU says is 'hybrid warfare'.
Earlier this week, a court of first instance in the Calabrian city of Crotone sentenced three alleged smugglers of the migrant vessel to between 11 and 16 years in prison. They were on board a ship that sank off Cutro in 2023, causi1