Over 1,500 migrants have died while seeking to cross the Mediterranean in 2018, making this "one of the deadliest years on record" on a per capita basis, the International Organization for Migration has said. The IOM's Missing Migra1
Young migrant girls are being forced into prostitution in the Ligurian border city of Ventimiglia to pay for their food and accomodation or to be smuggled into France, according to a new report by Save the Children (StC) released ah1
Despite an overall decline in the number of migrants entering Europe, the sea crossing appears more dangerous than ever. International organizations will meet in Geneva Monday to discuss the crisis.
Italian prosecutors are investigating rescue workers from international NGOs, including some from the German NGO Jugend Rettet. The investigation comes as Italy's populist government cracks down on private sea rescues.
"The Strait of Gibraltar has become the new Lampedusa," according to Jose Ignacio Landaluce, mayor of Algeciras, one of the cities on Andalusia's southern coast that have found themselves at the center of the upsurge in sea arrivals1