Paris 2024 Olympics: Controversy Surrounds Crackdown on Vulnerable Communities

A scathing report released by “The Other Side of the Medal,” a coalition of 80 charitable organizations, has accused Paris of employing familiar tactics seen in previous Olympic host cities: the systematic exclusion of migrants, squatters, the homeless, and sex workers
France announced increased controls for migrants at French-Italy border

In November, France announced increased controls for migrants at the border with Italy. Additional police officers were deployed to run checks on trains and cars near the Italian town of Ventimiglia
No children would be on streets tonight, says State Secty for Asylum & Migration de Moor

After Belgium has again and again failed to provide asylum seekers with shelter with unaccompanied minors sleeping rough for over a week, State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor has announced that no children would be on the streets tonight.
Over 1,000 migrants reaches southern shores of Italy over weekend

Italy have struggled on Sunday to relieve overcrowding in shelters following scores of vessels carrying over 1,000 migrants have reached the southern shores of Italy and two of its tiny islands over the weekend.
Greece introduces strict measures to reduce number of migrants, asylum seekers

Greece is planning to introduce stricter measures to reduce the number of migrants and asylum seekers who are crossing the Maritsa River.
ECHR ordered Greece to pay fine, over migrant deaths in Aegean Sea

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled a judgement against Greece in a landmark case of the sinking of a migrant boat in the Aegean Sea in 2014.
Number of Tunisian migrants arrived in Italy between January and May is 2,206: FTDES

Around 950 undocumented Tunisian migrants, including 354 minors, has arrived in Italy in the month of May, as per reported by an NGO in Tunisia.
Italy: 7 migrants die, 280 rescued off coast of Lampedusa

Rome– Europe has been paralysed with the vast blanket of snowfall and the incident has been reported where people have lost there due to hypothermia in Italy. On Tuesday, January 25, 2022, the Italian coast guard informed that around seven migrants had lost their lives due to apparent hypothermia (in which the body temperature of […]
Boat-carrying Migrants capsizes off Morocco, 43 dies

A boat filled with migrants was capsized off the coast of Tarfaya in southern Morocco, which has left around forty-three people killed, including three infants. As per the reports of the Spanish Organisation Caminando Fronteras at around ten people were rescued from the shipwreck. The organization have informed about the incident and confirmed the killings […]