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The Pournara reception camp for migrants and refugees near Nicosia in Cyprus has long been overcrowded | Photo: picture alliance/AP

Cyprus: 'Miserable' conditions for children in migrant camp

Young migrants and refugees at the Pournara reception camp in Cyprus face 'miserable' and 'unhygienic' conditions and do not get enough to eat or drink, the country's children’s rights commissioner says. The interior ministry has re1

The women's rights group stressed that Afghanistan's "relapse into a social order in which women are pushed out of public life, disenfranchised, abused, stoned and killed" should not be accepted (photo from file)| Photo: Florian Bachmeier/IMAGO/picture-alliance

Don't forget about Afghan women: Women's rights activists plead for help

The German human rights organization Pro Asyl published a public appeal for help on behalf of 33 women's rights activists in Afghanistan. The organization pleaded for the women to be accepted immediately by the German government wit1

Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner for Human Rights, delivers a speech on the 'situation of human rights in Ukraine stemming from the Russian aggression', at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 3, 2022 | Photo: EPA/Martial Trezzini

Solidarity with Ukrainians contrasts with treatment of other refugees and migrants, UN's Bachelet

UN human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet has praised the solidarity shown to refugees from Ukraine. But she also criticized that other migrants and refugees often face pushbacks and criminalization at the EU's borders and beyo1

Libyan Red Crescent workers pick up bodies near Sabratha, February 28, 2022 | Credit: Twitter @rgowans / Libyan Red Crescent

Bodies washed up on Libyan shore as cargo ship brings rescued migrants to France

Around 50 people died in a shipwreck on February 27 off the Libyan coast. Some of their corpses washed up on the beach of Sabratha in the Zawiya district.

Around 400 Ukrainian refugees arrived in the German city of Hanover on March 8. The mayor, Belit Onay, said, "We are with you in these difficult times." | Photo: Imago

Women and children fleeing Ukraine at risk from human traffickers

Most of those who have fled Ukraine have been women and children. There are fears that they now face the risk of being trafficked and forced into prostitution.