The number of migrants who arrived in Italy by sea increased significantly last year, inspite of the coronavirus emergency, according to the UN refugee agency. Nearly 40% of newly arrived migrants were Tunisians.
The organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) denounced the alarming living and working conditions of foreign farm workers on the Gioia Tauro plain in Calabria, southern Italy.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/01/14
After several road accidents involving migrant farmworkers, street lights in the plain of Gioia Tauro, southern Italy, are being repaired. The Italian interior ministry says it is working with local authorities on improving public transport in the area and providing migrants with items such as safety vests.
The Italian interior ministry said in a statement on Wednesday, January 13, that work is being completed in the plain of Gioia Tauro, in Calabria, to repair street lights. The roads were reportedly also cleaned.
The prefecture of Reggio Calabria held several meetings recently to address road safety, after migrants were injured and even killed in several accidents recently.
The enrollment of incoming first-year students in Italy for the 2021-2022 school year will close on January 25. Enrollment is also mandatory for foreign minors, regardless of the regularity of their parents' stay permit, according to regulations issued by the education ministry.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/01/08
The farmhands union Ubs in Calabria has denounced yet another road accident involving a migrant worker. The Union stressed that that the security of foreign workers is not safeguarded.
The Ubs farmhands union in the southern Italian region of Calabria on January 5 denounced the umpteenth road accident involving a foreign worker who was walking back from the fields to the tent camp where he lives. While workers at the tent camp of San Ferdinando are still crying for the death of Gora Gasama, another Malian farmhand was involved on Monday night in another road accident as he was walking back from his tent camp, according to the statement.