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The EU has warned that shipments by air and by ship “are not enough” and that Israel must open other land crossings that are currently closed

Chef José Andrés, who led the effort, explains how the mission to take 200 tons of food by sea with the Spanish ship ‘Open Arms’ was made possible with help from Cyprus, Jordan and UAE

Asylum requests from residents of the enclave and the West Bank tripled last year compared to 2021, but Israel’s attacks since October 7 have slowed the flow of those seeking protection on European soil

Cyprus and Israel in December announced a humanitarian sea route to the Strip but it failed to materialize despite a successful trial run that shipped 90 tons of aid to Egypt last Christmas

Cham Wings Airlines – sanctioned by the EU and investigated by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) – is part of a plot organized by an alleged drug trafficker, who has been sentenced to death in Libya. Meanwhile, the airline is advertised as a ‘humanitarian’ company at tourism fairs and conferences

Amy Pope, the head of the International Organization for Migration since October, advocates focusing on the private sector to promote mobility through safe and legal channels

The International Organization for Migration warns of a humanitarian emergency due to the significant amount of victims; at least 3,863 people lost their lives last year trying to cross a European border

The Coast Guard resumed its enforcement activities at the same time that Von der Leyen announced new plans with the North African country, in a letter to the European Council

The Ministry of Health confirms a positive case in the Renk Transit Center, located in the north of the country, where thousands of displaced people are living shoulder to shoulder

Sudanese higher education students – who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence – now live in poor conditions as displaced people, without any certainty about their education and their future

The expert on development and human mobility defends immigration as a tool for growth and as the only way Europeans will be able to maintain their lifestyle on a continent that is only getting older

Dominique Hyde, the U.N. Refugee Agency’s director of foreign relations, says the humanitarian crisis resulting from the war in Sudan is the worst she’s seen in three decades

The lack of fuel and medicine in the enclave is putting at risk the lives of patients who depend on a respirator or an incubator, as well as the 350,000 people suffering from cancer, diabetes, heart and kidney diseases

Over 2,300 minors in the Strip have died under the Israeli bombardment, while those who remain in the war zone are exposed to hunger, thirst and serious damage to their mental health

Raquel Martí, the executive director of UNRWA Spain, is demanding that Israel open the crossings in the territory. If it does not, ‘the people don’t die from the bombs, they will die from starvation’

The Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into what it terms an ‘alarming phenomena of violence’ against immigrants and incitement to ‘racist pogroms’

The island nation aims to end statelessness, but certain laws still marginalize an ethnic group with a history of discrimination

The mafias who controlled the ship that sank off the coast of southern Greece have links to Khalifa Hafter, the warlord who controls eastern Libya. Some EU states – including Italy – want to “collaborate” with Hafter to curb immigration, according to an investigation conducted by EL PAÍS and Lighthouse Reports

The southern region of the ‘red island’ was thought to be the first country that would experience famine as a result of climate change, but experts warn that the cause of this crisis is structural poverty

One out of every 74 people in the world have been forced to leave their homes due to violence, persecution and natural disasters, according to UNHCR

The outbreak of conflict in Khartoum has led to over 385,000 people fleeing to troubled Chad, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Egypt and Central African Republic, all of which were already hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees

On February 26, a boat carrying around 200 migrants capsized 40 meters off the Italian coast. Various agencies failed to detect the risk and did not activate a rescue operation on time. An investigation by EL PAÍS with ‘Lighthouse Reports’ and other media outlets exposes the fatal chain of errors

Migrant rescues have been criminalized, and new laws prevent humanitarian organizations from saving lives

The Spanish non-profit Open Arms plucked 50 people from a sinking boat, including a pregnant woman and a baby. EL PAÍS witnessed the operation

An experiment in Medellín suggests vector control using the mass introduction of a species infected with a parasitic bacteria could be the most promising strategy yet against dengue fever

A team of researchers from Barcelona has studied the cellular mechanism that allowed a woman to be ‘functionally’ cured despite not taking antiretrovirals

Leader of Brazilian indigenous group in Spain to condemn his people’s forced displacement