The UN Migration Agency IOM wants Greece to set up more shelters for unaccompanied minor migrants as winter approaches. IOM staff teams have been deployed to eight facilities temporarily set up in hotels.

The European Commission has decided to give up on the redistribution of obligatory migrant quotas in order to get past a stalemate on the reform of the Common European Asylum System.

A boat carrying 25 migrants that departed from Libya in an attempt to reach Europe was adrift on the Mediterranean for almost two weeks. More than half of the passengers died of thirst and starvation.

A report by the German Institute for Human Rights says German labor laws are utterly inadequate in protecting foreign workers' rights. Foreign laborers are often forced into hardships out of fear of losing their jobs.