Migrant Crisis

• More than 10,000 migrants died this year trying to reach Spain by sea: Report

  Spain’s interior ministry says more than 57, 700 migrants reached Spain by boat until Dec. 15 this year, a roughly 12 per cent increase from the same period last year.

  World

  Dec 26, 2024
  
• 41 migrants feared dead as boat capsizes off the coast of Italy

  Calls poured in for Europe to develop safe and legal pathways of migration to prevent future deaths. Thousands of migrants have already made the dangerous journey this year.

  World

  Aug 10, 2023
  
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• End criminalization of undocumented migrants, UN envoy urges

  The Migrant Rights Network, a migrant-led advocacy coalition based in Canada, welcomed the call by Felipe González Morales, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants.

  Canada

  Jun 30, 2023
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• Hundreds of migrants have already died in 2023 crossing Mediterranean to Europe: UN

  The alert comes just a day after Italy announced a state of emergency due to the "sharp rise" in migrant journeys across the Mediterranean.

  World

  Apr 12, 2023
• ‘Roxham Road! 60 dollars!’: Here’s how asylum seekers cross irregularly into Canada

  In December, a total of 4,689 migrants entered the country through Quebec's Roxham Road — more than all would-be refugees who arrived in Canada in 2021.

  Canada

  Feb 12, 2023
• Syrian man found dead near Poland-Belarus border amid political standoff

  Polish police said the body of a Syrian man about 20 years old was found near the village of Wolka Terechowska.

  Politics

  Nov 13, 2021
• ‘This is a human heartbreak’: Biden scrambling amid migrant surge at U.S.-Mexico border

  There were 18,945 family members and 9,297 unaccompanied children encountered in February — an increase of 168% and 63%, respectively, from the month before.

  World

  Mar 20, 2021
• Thousands of migrants seek to enter Greece despite sealed border

  Many of those hoping to enter Greece were trying their luck by wading or rowing across the Evros River that runs along most of the length of the Turkish frontier.

  World

  Mar 3, 2020
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• Canada calls for worldwide help for Venezuela to ‘return to democracy’

  Canada is hosting the gathering of foreign ministers today from the coalition of Western Hemisphere countries who are trying to solve the Venezuela crisis.

  World

  Feb 20, 2020
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• Venezuelan elections key to ending political crisis, Colombian envoy to Canada says

  Frederico Hoyos, Colombia's ambassador to Canada, is calling on the Lima Group to make a renewed push for a new presidential election in Venezuela, one that he says would likely end in the defeat of the country's dictator president, Nicolas Maduro.

  World

  Feb 19, 2020