InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/05/05
The Italian interior ministry said the country has already surpassed 10,000 migrant arrivals in 2021, three times more than the same period last year. This figure doesn t include the 455 migrants brought to Italy by the NGO ship Sea-Watch 4.
The Italian interior ministry, in an update published Monday (May 3), said the country has already surpassed 10,000 migrant arrivals in 2021, with a total of 10,107 people who disembarked between January 1 and May 3.
The number is three times higher than the same period in 2020, when the total was 3,573.
Ministry data
The data show that in the first three days of May, over 1,000 people reached Italian shores, 997 on the first day of May alone.
By ANSA Published on : 2021/04/21
UNICEF and Save the Children said that in the four months that their joint border program has been active, they have provided assistance to more than 130 families and 570 unaccompanied minors in Ventimiglia and Lampedusa.
UNICEF and Save the Children highlighted that they will continue working together to offer humanitarian support to refugee and migrant children, adolescents and families.
The two organizations said that in four months of a joint program to provide assistance at the borders, which ran from December 2020 to March 2021, they have assisted more than 130 families and 570 unaccompanied minors who arrived in Ventimiglia - at the northern border with France - and on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/04/15
Italy s national detainee rights chief has said that severe problems remain at the country s migrant repatriation centers (CPRs). He is calling for structural changes as well as legislative intervention.
Italy s detainee rights ombudsman Mauro Palma wrote in a report published Tuesday that migrants at repatriation centers were exposed to problems that weigh irremediably on [their] rights.
He called for structural improvements and on local health authorities to regularly check on hygiene conditions at CPRs. He also said that migrants at CPRs should have the possibility to make and receive telephone calls.
Palma said that CPRs rudimentary architecture lacked spaces for socializing and worship, which also increases tension.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/04/06
Italian authorities uncovered a criminal organization in Sicily that was operating as a wedding agency, with single women who needed money and were willing to marry foreigners who needed to be married in order to legally stay in Italy.
Finance police (Guardia di Finanza) in Ragusa have uncovered a wedding agency. The agency deployed single women who needed money and were willing to marry foreigners who needed to be married in order to legally stay in Italy.
The police operation, called Wedding Planner , executed a custody ordinance on Thursday, April 1 against three people under investigation, including a municipal cop from Comiso. The judge in the preliminary hearing issued the custody ordinance based on a request filed by substitute prosecutor Santo Fornasier.
InfoMigrants By InfoMigrants Published on : 2021/04/05
On April 3, Alarm Phone reported the presence of three boats in the Maltese Search and Rescue regions. The people on two of the boats were rescued and taken to Lampedusa. An estimated 110 people on the third boat appear to still be unaccounted for, what has happened?
Several days after three boats were spotted in the Central Mediterranean and those on board two of them were rescued and taken to Lampedusa, questions remain about an estimated 110 people that appear to have been on board a third boat.
Two of the boats spotted, carrying about 160 people in total are confirmed to be safely on Lampedusa, reported Alarm Phone. But the last one appears still to be missing. The organization tweeted a picture of what looked like a small blue single-deck wooden boat accompanied by this text in Italian.