Successful integration and inclusion is an essential part of a well-managed and effective migration and asylum policy, and essential for social cohesion and for a dynamic economy that works for all, says the European Commission.
European Union governments should improveon, and then sign up to a plan to ensure timely disembarkation and relocation of people rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say
The UN Refugee Agency is calling on European governments to allow the immediate disembarkation of 507 people recently rescued on the Central Mediterranean who remain stranded at sea.
Personnel from the Lebanese Armed Forces have partially demolished over 350 refugees’ homes in four tented settlement in Akkar, in northern Lebanon, using sledgehammers.
The UN Refugee Agency has welcomed the UK’s pledge to resettle significant numbers of the world’s refugees after its Syria focused programme expires next year.
More than a hundred faith leaders will converge on the US-Mexico border for a mass action in support of the migrant caravans and all those who seek refuge in the US.