There are renewed calls in Germany for a freeze on deportations of rejected asylum seekers to Afghanistan. Several groups are warning that as Afghanistan’s security situation worsens, the risks from COVID have become acute.
A civil rights group in Germany says migration authorities may have violated the rights of tens of thousands of asylum seekers by analyzing their mobile phone data.
Pressure is growing on the head of the European border agency Frontex after new accusations of abuses, which the EU described as "very worrying." Frontex head Fabrice Leggeri has recently been subject to accusations over the methods used to stop migrants, as well as irregularities in Frontex spending.
The film "Borga" tells the story of a Ghanaian migrant who wants to make it big in Europe. But the reality of his new life in Germany largely shatters those dreams.
German authorities sent asylum seekers back to Ethiopia last year, despite the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic and Tigray's conflict. Opposition politicians and human rights groups condemn the move.
42 additional refugees arrived in the German city of Hanover from Greece on Wednesday, February 3. The group is part of a contingent of 1,553 vulnerable persons that Germany agreed to take from Greece after the fire in the Lesbos migrant camp Moria last September.
After fleeing Syria's civil war in 2015, the 31-year old social worker and Green party candidate is hoping to become the first refugee from Syria to be elected to the Bundestag.
A center for asylum seekers in Cologne is under total lockdown after more than a third of residents tested positive for coronavirus. There are renewed concerns that asylum seekers in communal reception facilities in the country remain at high risk from the virus.
International organizations and charities are worried that migrants, refugees, and displaced people are sometimes being forgotten or ignored from national vaccination strategies. They call on the global community to do more to make sure everyone is immunized.
Police say they stopped more than 5,000 migrants trying to fly from Greece to Germany last year. Germany plans to deploy more officers at airports to prevent 'people smuggling'.
A German Neo-Nazi was sentenced this week to life in prison for murdering Walter Lübcke, a local politician whose support for refugees had made him a target among Germany’s right-wing extremist scene. The verdict has closed a painful chapter in Germany's debate on migration, but there's a long history of xenophobia and racism that continues to simmer underneath.
Amid heated debate about the long-term effects of the lockdown on children, business and the arts, Germany's refugees seem to have been forgotten.
