Amnesty International has called on football's global governing body to put pressure on Qatar to improve labor conditions for hundreds of thousands of temporary migrant workers residing on the tiny Persian Gulf peninsula.
Wednesday, 24 February 2021_More than 6,500 migrant workers from five labor-sending South Asian countries have reportedly died in Qatar ever since the Persian Gulf kingdom won the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup nearly a decade ago.
Tehran 25 February _Clashes broke out on two Greek islands early on Tuesday between police and residents protesting the construction of migrant detention centers as the government vowed to press ahead with the project.
TEHRAN, Sept 30_Greece will keep moving asylum seekers from overcrowded camps on its islands to the mainland, government officials said on Monday, after a woman died following clashes and a fire at a refugee camp on the island of Lesbos.
TEHRAN, Jul 14 -The number of bodies recovered by Tunisia after a ship packed with migrant s sank off its coast last week has risen to 82, in one of the worst disasters in recent years, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Jun 30 -A migrant man has died after collapsing at a US border station amid the worsening crisis along the US-Mexico border, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says.
TEHRAN, Jan 29 - Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday urged the upper house Senate to reject a request by judges to put him on trial for alleged kidnapping after he refused to let migrant s disembark from a rescue ship, saying he had acted in the public interest.
TEHRAN, Jan 29 - Police cleared 300 migrant s from a makeshift refugee camp by Porte de la Chapelle in northern Paris early on Tuesday, and took them to official shelters elsewhere in the city.
TEHRAN, Jan 27 - Italy's interior minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday he was gathering legal evidence against the crew of a Dutch-flagged rescue ship as calls grew for 47 migrant s to be allowed to land.
TEHRAN, Jan 9 - Spanish police say they have broken up a gang that smuggled people and drugs by boat from Morocco into Spain, charging migrant s up to 2,000 euros ($2,300) a trip.
TEHRAN, December 26 - A new report has shown that the United Kingdom is becoming increasingly careless of the situation of migrant s in its detention centers as more and more people commit suicide or need emergency medical care for drug overdose.
TEHRAN, November 14 - A migrant from Ghana, notorious for his shoplifting sprees and violent outbursts, was arrested 107 times in Berlin, but none of them stuck. He even walked free after threatening to hack a woman with a meat cleaver.
TEHRAN, November 14 - Hundreds of Central American migrant s planning to seek asylum in the United States moved toward the country’s border with Mexico on Tuesday as U.S. military reinforced security measures, laying barbed wire and erecting barricades.
TEHRAN, November 04 - Newly arrived troops on the country’s southern border are working with US Customs and Border Patrol officers to lay about 1,000 feet of fencing along the river according to the Defense Department.
TEHRAN, October 21 - Authorities in Mexico have allowed a large number of women and children from a Central American migrant caravan to enter the country, but thousands remain stranded along the Mexico-Guatemala border bridge where riot police have barred their progress.
TEHRAN, October 19 - The artisan shops in Riace's historic centre are shuttered and its alleyways quiet as locals wait to see what will happen to Italy's world-renowned model of migrant integration.
TEHRAN, October 11 -An Investigation into the situation of migrant s whose asylum applications are being reviewed in the UK suggests that British authorities detain them unlawfully and for indefinite periods of time.
TEHRAN, August 1-The migrant rescue ship Aquarius, source of a dispute between Italy and Malta in June after both refused to accept more than 600 people it had picked up, will begin a new mission in the southern Mediterranean on Wednesday, organizers said.
TEHRAN, July 24 -The U.S. government will update a federal judge on Tuesday about its efforts to meet a Thursday deadline for reuniting roughly 2,500 im migrant children and parents who were separated by officials as they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.