Choose Love: the shop where customers buy gifts for refugees

An orderly queue formed outside the Choose Love store despite the November cold. But unlike the thousands of visitors to other stores across central London, these shoppers were not looking to grab a Black Friday bargain, they were lining up to buy gifts for refugees

'Here I am a human being': How Kaiserslautern continues to integrate refugees

After volunteering in the Greek island of Lesbos at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, Anita Lekic was inspired to spend time in this southwest German city, which is playing a huge role in providing asylum for refugees, to see how it is dealing with the influx of people. Here’s what she...

'They didn't give a damn': first footage of Croatian police 'brutality'

Migrants who allegedly suffer savage beatings by state officials call it ‘the game’. But as shocking evidence suggests, attempting to cross the Bosnia-Croatia border is far from mere sport

What happened when migrants moved into my family’s Sicilian village

Refugees are breathing vibrant new life into the dying home town of Lorenzo Tondo’s father-in-law. If only Italy’s ascendant rightwingers saw it that way

Reaction for inaccurate accuse of a migrant in Bosnia

NGO Legis declares disagreement and concern with the declaration given by Bosnian police official that migrant suspected for murder of 5 people in Macedonia was arrested in Bosnia.

How Integration Is Actually Working in Germany

Three years after record numbers of asylum seekers came to Germany, jobs remain the biggest challenge for post-2015 arrivals. Researcher Swati Mehta offers four ways to make financial integration work.

Cameroon denies deporting Nigerian refugees to unsafe conditions

The UN has said that Cameroon is forcing Nigerian refugees to return home, even when it is not safe for the refugees to do so.

Migrants, Refugees Block Bosnia-Croatia Border Crossing

The border crossing between Bosnia and Croatia was closed after a couple of hundred migrants and refugees trying to get into the EU country blocked the main road.

Greek road inferno 'kills 11 migrants'

Eleven people thought to be migrants have died after their vehicle and a lorry collided head-on in northern Greece. Both the car and the lorry burst into flames but the lorry driver managed to escape without serious injuries.

Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 82,100 in 2018; Deaths Reach 1,741

Geneva – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 82,100 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2018 through 30 September, with 36,654 to Spain, the leading destination this year. (Spain’s arrivals include over 600 migrants sailing to Las Canarias in the Atlantic Ocean – see more below.)

Italy migrant crisis: Government passes tough bill

The Italian government has passed a decree which will make it easier to deport migrants and strip them of Italian citizenship.

Child migrant arrivals at Greek islands soar by one-third in 2018, says UNICEF

Migration: how many people are on the move around the world?

The mass movement of people is arguably the biggest story of our time. How do we define the different types of migrant, how many are there and is the current crisis really an unprecedented problem?

Migrant crisis: Scores drown off Libyan coast

Two rubber boats set off on 1 September but one of the vessels deflated and sank, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says.

Twenty migrants got injured in a van that turned over before Katlanovo tunnel

Eighteen migrants got injured in a car crash, whereas five of them suffered severe injuries, the police confirmed. The car crash took place today around 13.45h, 3-4 km away from the tunnel of Katlanovo, on the Veles-Skopje highway.