By the end of 2020, the number of undocumented migrants in Italy could surpass 670,000. That is more than twice as many as only five years ago, according to a report by Amnesty International.
The death of a Georgian migrant in a repatriation center in the town of Gradisca, northeastern Italy, has sparked outrage. Witnesses say that the man had been brutally beaten by ten policemen but what actually happened has not yet b1
Chancellor Merkel, in Davos, has said the conflict in Libya must be stopped before another refugee crisis begins. She added that a global decrease in diplomacy was making regions like the Sahel more unstable.
British MPs approved the latest Brexit bill, but rejected five amendments. They included provisions to reunite child refugees with families already in the UK, and guaranteed residence for millions of EU citizens.
Authorities in France and the Netherlands have arrested 23 people suspected of involvement in large-scale people smuggling. They are believed to have smuggled 10,000 Kurdish migrants into the UK from France.