21 Jun 2020

Paying for migrants to go back home: how the EU’s Voluntary Return scheme is failing the desperate

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By the time James boarded a flight from Libya to Nigeria at the end of 2018, he had survived a Mediterranean shipwreck, traveled through a half dozen African states, been shot, and spent two years being abused and tortured in … Read More
26 Oct 2018

Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 95,909 in 2018; Deaths Reach 1,969

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Geneva – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 95,909 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2018 through 24 October, with 45,976 to Spain, the leading destination this year. In fact, since late September’s arrivals were reported Spain in … Read More