After a UN body determined the country's recent treatment of sub-Saharan African migrants violates basic human rights, Tunisia's government called on the international agency to use "greater objectivity."

The migrants were trying to cross over to Italy from Tunisia when their boats sank. The Coast Guard said it rescued 53 people.

Migrants hosted at a facility in the north-western Italian port city of Genoa have been forced to live in dire conditions, with only one meal a day while staying in rooms which reportedly are infested with insects and parasites. A l1

Earlier in the week on Tuesday evening, a group of more than 200 young migrants alongside several organizations, who work with migrants and asylum seekers, occupied an abandoned school in Paris' 16th arrondissement.