Italian authorities bust passport-forging ring
Italian police have arrested nine people who were allegedly part of a gang that forged passports for migrants, allowing them to avoid border controls.
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Alleged Cutro shipwreck trafficker handed 20-year sentence
A Turkish citizen accused of being one of the four human traffickers on the dinghy that sank in Cutro last February off the coast of Calabria was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Migrant women left out of EU's proposed violence against women directive
Leaked documents accessed by migrant rights group Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) indicate that a provision that would have protected migrant women from deportation when reporting abuse was om1
EU pledges €210 million in funding for Mauritania as part of migration strategy
EU Commission head Ursula von der Leyen and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez were in Mauritania on Thursday, to sign a series of EU migration deals. Mauritania is increasingly becoming a key transit land for migration to Europe.1
Poland-Belarus border: 6,000 pushbacks in 6 months
Poland facilitated some 6,000 pushbacks in the 6 months between July 2023 and January 2024, according to government data published this week. The data was released in response to an information request from the left-wing opposition.