Deaths occurred when a small overcrowded boat carrying 112 people set out to cross the Channel and panic took hold. British police say they have arrested three men over the deaths of five people including a child who died attempting to cross the English Channel from France. The deaths occurred…
At least 28 others are missing after a boat carrying 77 asylum seekers sinks, according to the UN’s migration agency. At least 16 people are dead and 28 others are missing after a boat carrying asylum seekers capsized off the coast of the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, according…
The controversial law is expected to come into force within days with the first deportation flights in weeks. A controversial United Kingdom government bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has finally secured the approval of the upper house of parliament, which had demanded numerous amendments, as Prime Minister Rishi…
Deportations ‘could be a death sentence’, advocates say, as gang violence and instability grip the Caribbean country. The United States has sent dozens of Haitian citizens back to their country on a deportation flight, despite a surge in deadly gang violence and widespread instability in the Caribbean nation. A spokesperson…
Buenaventura, Colombia – Day after day, month after month, Consuelo Manyoma waits for news that it is safe for her family of seven to return home. Manyoma is from San Isidro, an Afro-Colombian village nestled between tropical forests and the Calima River in the country’s southwest. There, nine Black communities collectively…
Many hundreds of people have died in the Gulf of Aden while trying to reach Saudi Arabia through Yemen. At least 38 migrants and refugees, including children, have died after their boat sank off the coast of Djibouti, the United Nations migration agency has said, after their bodies were recovered….
Montreal, Canada – “Unlivable.” That’s how Canada’s immigration minister, Marc Miller, described the situation in the Gaza Strip in late December. The Palestinian territory was under fierce Israeli bombardment at the time. At least 20,000 people had been killed, and hunger was spreading at an alarming rate as Israel blocked…
Rights advocates are calling on countries across the Americas — notably the United States and the Dominican Republic — to stop deporting migrants and asylum seekers to Haiti amid a surge in gang violence and political instability there. Speaking at an event on Thursday in Washington, DC, Guerline Jozef, head…
Human Rights Watch has urged the two countries to ensure the safety of people crossing the dangerous migration route. Colombia and Panama have failed to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers crossing a dangerous yet popular jungle migration route between the two countries, Human Rights Watch (HRW)…
After a 13-year wait, Bulgaria and Romania have partially joined Europe’s Schengen area of free movement. The two countries reached an agreement late last year to join the continent’s free-travel area by air and sea after Austria opposed full membership, including land crossings, saying Romania and Bulgaria needed to do…
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