Scotland houses Ukrainian refugees on cruise ship
Scotland has started to house Ukrainian refugees who fled the Russian invasion on a cruise ship docked off Edinburgh, the devolved Scottish government has said.
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Migrant transfers out of Lampedusa continue, so do arrivals
Despite a number of transfers of migrants to other Italian towns, the Lampedusa hotspot in Sicily remains at risk of collapsing due to the continued inflow of new arrivals. Meanwhile the Agrigento public prosecutor has opened a file1
Humanitarian corridors shepherd 300 Afghan refugees to Italy
More than 300 Afghan refugees will have arrived this week in Italy via humanitarian corridors. The first arrivals touched down in Rome on Monday and Wednesday, more are expected to arrive on Thursday.
UN guidelines to protect migrant children from climate change
UNICEF and IOM (International Organization for Migration) launched new migrant child protection guidelines to safeguard them from climate change. In 2020 approximately 10 million children became displaced due to meteorological-induc1
Italy: Smuggled migrants died on boat of heat and thirst, prosecutor says
Italian authorities have charged five Egyptian nationals with aiding and abetting clandestine migration as well as death as the result of an additional crime committed. The Egyptians are believed to have smuggled migrants on board a1