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Athens, Greece.First recorded case of COVID-19 among migrants.She is a 19-year-old woman who tested positive in the last week of March, when she was admitted to hospital to give birth to her baby. The young mother lives in the Ritsona refugee camp on the mainland, located about 70 kilometers north of Athens, which hosts 2,300 people (of which 252 unaccompanied minors) and that he was quarantined last Thursday for at least two weeks, after the positive results of the test to which 20 asymptomatic migrants were subjected (which later became 23). Read also >> Covid-19 and health emergency:It is essential to protect the rights and health of migrants and refugees Health officials are investigating the source of the infection and testing many camp residents to determine how many have contracted the virus. The Greek Ministry of Migration has announced that travel will be severely limited and monitored by the police. Read also >> Over 40 thousand refugees in camps that could accom...

Bosnia, minors exposed to cold and violence among migrants at the border Update February 2, 2021:Around 1000 refugee minors currently live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, half of whom are unaccompanied by an adult.The majority come from Afghanistan, Syria and Pakistan and are hosted in refugee camps which, however, do not offer separate areas for minors.At least 50 do not even have a place in the "official" camps and do not receive food regularly.Overall, these minors are not protected and are exposed to health risks and violence, tells Zoran Arbutina on Deutsche Welle. Some 500 unaccompanied minors are among the refugees currently staying in camps in Bosnia-Herzegovina.https://t.co/3Lk6dNkx1c — DW News (@dwnews) February 1, 2021 “For the last two months I have been sleeping in abandoned houses, eating what I received from organizations or locals,” said a 17-year-old boy, camping in Bihac.In these ruined buildings the cold of winter is felt and the fires that a...

Of Nancy Porsia The refinancing for the Libyan Coast Guard has already been approved by the Council of Ministers at the beginning of July, and the Senate will soon be called to vote.Although the torture, deaths and more generally the systematic violation of the most basic rights of migrants in Libya have been widely documented by investigations and reports, the Italian Parliament could for the fifth consecutive year vote in favor of refinancing the Libyan Coast Guard. Bodies swollen with water, with skin scaly from sun and salt burns, scattered in random order along the shoreline, return to dot the Libyan coasts.“This is a horror we thought was a thing of the past.Instead he comes back on time,” says a man from Zwara, a city on the coast in the far west of Libya.It was him last May 21st, to find the bodies of two children spat out by the sea together with that of a woman.“It was dawn, I was taking a walk, like every morning, by the sea near the family holiday home, wh...

Yesterday the ship Eleonore of the German NGO Lifeline, at sea for 8 days with 104 people on board, he forced the ban on entering Italian territorial waters and was headed to the port of Pozzallo.Until two days ago the ship was near Malta awaiting instructions from the German government.Then, during the night, the declaration of a state of emergency on board and the route to Italy.Despite the alarm raised by the ship, however, the Italian search and rescue center (MRCC) had reiterated the entry ban.The ship decided to force the blockade. In the meantime, the 31 migrants still present on board Mare Jonio, the ship of the Mediterranean humanitarian project, they were disembarked to Lampedusa for "health reasons" after an inspection on board carried out by a group of doctors sent by the Ministry of Health to check the conditions of the migrants, who on Sunday had announced a hunger strike to protest against the refusal to assign them a "port Safe". Last week the s...

"President Trump's immigration policy has crossed the line from gratuitous cruelty to blunt sadism.He probably likes seeing innocent children crowded together in filth and squalor.Maybe he thinks this is America.Trump supporters, do you say he's right?Republican members of Congress, in your opinion?Is that what you want?" These are the questions posed by Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene Robinson, journalist and political analyst, in an editorial published on Washington Post following the June 17 visit of a group of lawyers, doctors and activists to the Clint detention center for migrants, near El Paso, Texas, during which it was not possible to view the facility but had the opportunity to interview more than 50 of the approximately 351 minors held in a complex that can contain a maximum of just over 100. away CNN Most of the children at Clint come from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.More than 100 are under 13 years of age, while 18 are under 4 years of age.The youngest is 4...