A group of 56 migrants was rescued by a tanker in the Eastern Mediterranean this weekend. More and more people are trying to travel from Turkey to Italy, often running into trouble off the western coast of Greece.
The private rescue ship Louise Michel rescued 48 migrants from an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean early on October 4. The rescue comes just a couple of days after the ship's crew disembarked the last group of 88 rescued migran1
The former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has received the UNHCR's highest award for her efforts to welcome more than 1 million people to Germany in 2015 and 2016.
Germany will now consider queer refugees at risk of persecution in their home countries, whether or not they openly live with their identity and orientation.
NGO-run rescue vessels operating in the Mediterranean Sea have taken to Italy a total of 10,000 migrants during the first nine months of 2022, compared to 6,000 last year. The fleet is growing amid tensions about the future of immig1