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U.N. urges Greece to stop detaining migrant children

A top United Nations official urged Greece on Monday to stop detaining refugee and migrant children, some of whom are locked up in police cells for weeks, and to develop child protection services instead. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Francois Crepeau, said he...

Migrants rescued off Sicily are not Syrians, UN says

There were hardly any Syrian migrants among the 800 people rescued off Sicily, contrary to earlier reports from Italy's coastguard, the U.N. and the International Organization for Migration have confirmed. The coastguard had said Thursday that half of the 342 migrants they had picked up were...

Iraqi refugees in Hasaka suffer lack of aid, medicine

Translation  by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Iraqi refugees fleeing Nineveh asked to be allowed to cross to north of Iraq regions due to difficult humanitarian conditions in al-Haul camp in Hasaka province, local sources said. Hundreds of Iraqi families suffer terrible conditions at...