More than 400 migrants were intercepted by the Tunisian coast guard over the weekend. Other boats leaving Tunisia did arrive on the Italian coast in the last few days however, including one containing a top-flight Tunisian footballe1
Bulgarian prosecutors have charged five people with human trafficking after 18 Afghans were found dead inside a truck on a dirt road in Bulgaria last Friday. Separately, 43 migrants were discovered in a van on Monday in western Bulg1
Between Friday and Sunday, 288 migrants disembarked three NGO ships in Italy. More than 1,000 migrants were also rescued by the Italian authorities or arrived by sea on Italy's southern coasts.
The UN human rights chief has expressed serious concern about a proposed Italian law on NGO migrant rescue vessels that was passed by the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian parliament last week. He has called for the law to be withd1
One in five places in Italian reception centers was empty as of December 2021, a report by ActionAid has found. The numbers confirm the non-existence of a reception emergency, a rhetoric which has been revived recently, the organiza1