Some 40 migrants, including children, were feared drowned after their inflatable boat sank off the Libyan coast. Tens of thousands of desperate people continue to risk their lives for a chance at a better life in Europe.
The Red Crescent humanitarian body has said it recovered the decomposed bodies of 19 Egyptian migrants. They appear to have been smuggled into Libya but it remained unclear where they were going when they died.
Migrants are staging a hunger strike on the Greek island of Lesvos. A new report released by Oxfam highlights the struggles and abuse faced by migrants in Libya, and one migrant from the Ivory Coast shares her story with InfoMigrant1
French police evicted thousands of migrants living on sidewalks in an area of northern Paris as dawn broke on Friday - many of them people who fled war or strife in countries as far away as Sudan, Eritrea and Afghanistan.
A group of four hundred women asylum seekers and refugees with children who reached Italy by sea or through humanitarian corridors will begin a reception and integration programme in a project by Rome's Community of Sant'Egidio.