Dunja Mijatovic, the human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe, has asked member states to release as many people as possible from detention centers for migrants amid the coronavirus emergency. She says that these facilitie1
Oxfam is accusing Greece of using the coronavirus as a pretext to suspend the asylum procedures. Numerous other organizations, including the Greek Refugee Council, have called on the Greek government to do more to protect migrants a1
Because of the coronavirus crisis, foreign seasonal farmworkers cannot enter Germany right now. Could refugees and asylum seekers replace them? This is being debated among German politicians. According to the interior ministry, the1
Migrants hosted in communities in Italy's northern region of Piedmont are making protective masks for the police amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which has hit the country especially hard.
Dozens of Italian associations have published a joint statement urging the government to adopt measures to protect migrants, asylum seekers, and the homeless during the Covid-19 emergency.