The number of people claiming asylum in Germany fell to 222,560 last year, according to European Union figures. The data could provide some relief for Chancellor Angela Merkel as she fights to save her coalition.
The German chancellor says she wants to work with Italy to reduce the number of refugees entering the European Union. Merkel is facing a rebellion inside her governing conservative alliance over migration.
One person was displaced every two seconds in 2017, the newest UN refugee agency figures show. New displacements came from crises in Myanmar, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Syria, in particular.
According to the first ever global study on people smuggling, at least 2.5 million migrants were trafficked in 2016. The study was released Wednesday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
In the age of migration 2.0, the European project RE-FUTURE for unaccompanied migrant minors takes advantage of innovative technology as a tool for cultural integaration.