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    UN rights chief slams US move to detain migrant children indefinitely

    04 Sep 2019

    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet voiced concern over the move by the administration of President Donald Trump last month to allow migrant children and their families to be detained for unlimited periods.

    New Italian government allows ship to disembark 82 migrants

    15 Sep 2019

    Italy on Saturday agreed to allow rescue ship Ocean Viking to disembark 82 migrants on southern islands Lampedusa after six days at sea following a European deal to distribute them.

    US immigration agents leave menstruating girls ‘bleeding through innerwear’

    28 Aug 2019

    Menstruating youngsters were permitted only one tampon, or sanitary pad, a day. After that, at least one girl “had no choice but to continue to wear her soiled innerwear” and clothes.

    1,500 migrants moved from ‘hell’ of overcrowded island

    03 Sep 2019

    Greek officials and UN workers evacuated the first group of what will be hundreds of migrants from the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday, where overcrowding and a crushing heat have made conditions unbearable.

    Greece moves to curb migrant influx

    02 Sep 2019

    Greece is to step up border patrols, move asylum-seekers from its islands to the mainland and speed up deportations in an effort to deal with a resurgence in migrant flows from neighbouring Turkey.

    A gruelling long wait for migrants seeking a better life

    11 Jul 2019

    The wait list for migrants in Tijuana to request asylum in the United States has grown to the longest it has ever been, even longer than the line that grew right after a large caravan arrived in November.

    We are seeing a flood of toxic speech and attitudes

    06 Aug 2019

    Along rivers prone to overflowing, people sometimes talk of preparing for a 100-year flood — a dangerous surge of muddy, debris-filled water so overwhelming it comes only once a century. In our political world, we are now seeing a 100-year flood of toxic speech and attitudes. The sludge washing ashore

    Video: Seesaws installed at US border wall so American and Mexican children can play together

    06 Aug 2019

    The bright pink installations were set up along the border fence between Sunland Park in New Mexico and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.

    Libya protests at ‘untruths’ in UN latest report

    02 Aug 2019

    Libya’s Government of National Accord has protested at what it said were “untruths” in UN envoy Ghassan Salame’s latest report on the conflict in the North African country.

    Slovenia erects more border fences to curb migrant inflow

    22 Aug 2019

    Slovenia has begun work on an additional stretch of fence along its southern border with Croatia with which it aims to keep out a rising number of migrants entering the country illegally.

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