UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi at an event in Italy said that "restrictive legislation, barbed wire, naval blockades, and pushbacks" are "racism". He stressed the legal and moral duty to welcome refugees and warned1
Europe's top human rights body, not connected to the EU, has criticized the Netherlands over the handling of migrants at the Ter Apel asylum center.
12 out of Germany's 16 states currently don't have space to host new refugees, according to a media report. Meanwhile the number of unauthorized entries across the Czech-German border has reached a record high.
Greek authorities have prevented more than 154,000 migrants from entering Greece this year, according to government figures. The country's border guards are regularly accused of engaging in illegal pushbacks.
A young woman and her baby, still wrapped around in her arms, lie at the bottom of the sea after drowning. This is one of the most harrowing discoveries of the recuperation operations off the Lebanese coast last week. Over 30 dead b1