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Syrian refugee girl rests inside the Spanish rescue vessel Astral after being rescued by the Spanish NGO Proactiva off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.

Migrants desperate to flee Libya’s detention camps are being turned back at sea

Nov 27, 2017

Cheong-Suk Ryang, 36, a defector from North Korea hoping to reach South Korea via Thailand, sits in her cell at the Chiang Saen police station in Thailand, after she and four other North Korean women were arrested on the Thai-Lao border. Photo taken May 9

More North Koreans are escaping to Thailand via an ‘underground railroad’

Aug 4, 2017

Rescuers try to revive an unconscious refugee who arrived on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos. Two unconscious arrivals were taken to a hospital and were later pronounced dead.

Not all those refugees are boarding ships voluntarily. Some are victims of extortion.

May 31, 2016

This hand-drawn diagram for the route from Turkey to Germany was recently posted on the Facebook page of one of Abdul-Ahad's Kurdish friends in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

Make an undocumented journey to Europe in 20 basic steps

Oct 7, 2015