Refugees in Italy – both asylum seekers, as well as those who already have obtained a protection status – live largely in absolute misery and homelessness.

Around 12.000 Roma and members of other minority groups are threatened to be deported to Kosovo. Around 5.000 of them are children and minors. A majority of them was born and raised in Germany. They face social exclusion and massive discrimination upon their arrival in Kosovo. As shown by a recently published UNICEF REPORT, 75% of the children who were deported dropped out of school. Even when they do get the opportunity to visit a school, deported children remain isolated. Since many of them s

On Wednesday, Greek police reported that 16 refugees drowned when trying to cross the river Evros that marks the border between Turkey and Greece. Bodies of six men and three women were found tuesday on the Greek side, while another five bodies were recovered on the Turkish shore. The corpses had been spottet on friday already by two women. The drowned refugees had tried to swim to the Greek shore of the river which had grown in width significantly due to heavy rain. The number of refugees tryi

The outcome of the so-called "Dubliners project" was presented to the public this week in Rome. Instigated by the Italian Refugees Council (CIR) and in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs and six partner organisations, amongst them PRO ASYL, 75 refugees affected by the Dublin II regulations were interviewed in order to highlight and illustrate the problems originating from the Dublin system. "Refugees aren't parcel post", said an Afghan describing his odyssey through Eur