The migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking is heading to the port city of Taranto in Italy after being given permission to disembark 176 migrants. The migrants, including at least nine children, were rescued from two boats off the Libyan1
UNHCR reports that 123 vulnerable refugees have been transferred from Libya to Rwanda. About 3,740 refugees are still in Libyan detention centers.
An Italian farmer has been arrested for shooting at migrant farmworkers to get them to work faster and more. The workers had been threatened repeatedly, an investigation found.
European countries must do more to protect child refugees and migrants who face risks and hardship after arriving in Europe. This year around 13,000 children have arrived in Greece, where they are suffering under terrible conditions1
Aboubakar Soumahoro, a well-known trade unionist for migrants in Italy, has said that a Roman taxi driver told him he had to sit in the front seat or else the driver wouldn't let him inside the taxi.