A Tunisian human rights group has denounced the dismantlement of a migrant and refugee sit-in protest outside the UNHCR offices in the Tunisian capital on Saturday. The UNHCR says it was part of an agreed transfer with protestors.
Lebanon says that Syrian refugees may be expelled from the country if the international community does not repatriate them. But a UN representative in Turkey warned this week that conditions in Syria are not suitable for return.
Nearly 950 undocumented Tunisian migrants, including 354 minors, arrived in Italy in the month of May, reports an NGO in Tunisia. That's an increase of more than 50% on last year's numbers.
In the last few days, Tunisian authorities have recovered the bodies of at least 16 migrants. On Monday, the coast guard said it had retrieved the bodies of four migrants.
This is the story of Nazifa Noor Ahmad, an Afghan woman who arrived in Italy as a child in 2008 to be treated for a severe form of Hodgkin lymphoma. The young woman died at age 20 on Wednesday (June 15), only a few days after a lung1