Migrant situation deteriorating in Libya, IOM says
The IOM and the UN Security Council have expressed concern over the humanitarian situation in war-torn Libya. IOM director Antonio Vitorino has called for all migrant detention centers to be closed.
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Bavaria's integration law ruled unconstitutional in parts
The regional government of the German state of Bavaria introduced a law requiring migrants to respect the "leading" local culture. Now, opposition party complaints it violated the constitution have been upheld.
Pope sends aide to collect 33 asylum seekers from Greece
Pope Francis is again establishing his own ‘humanitarian corridor’ from Greece to Italy. His latest decision is to send a close aide, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, to the Greek island of Lesbos to pick up 33 asylum seekers and bring th1
French defense ministry cancels delivery of boats to Libyan coast guard
The French Ministry of Defense announced in February 2019 that it would deliver six semi-rigid speed boats with gun ports to the Libyan coast guard by Spring 2020. On December 2, the government announced they would be halting this d1
Exclusive: ‘I don’t want to go back to Libya,’ plead migrants trying to flee
In the third of FRANCE 24’s special reports from Libya, Catherine Norris Trent, Julie Dungelhoeff and Abdallah Malkawi expose the horrors suffered by migrants intercepted by Libyan authorities in the Mediterranean Sea and dispatched1