On Fuerteventura, locals are crowded with people who have arrived via airplanes and cayucos – simple wooden boats that migrants use from the west coast of Africa. Javier and Juan live and work on the island. Photos: Javier, Felicia Broddén/Utvecklingsmagasinet, tilialucida/Canva
Of: Felicia Brodden
The Canary Islands are known for their role as one of the EU's main migration gateways for people who have taken the route via West Africa. Medierthe retrieval dominated by images of rescue operations and arriving boats, but rrescue workers and local residents testifies to a broader story.
April 27, 2026, FUF-correspondents, Interview
Training migrants in digital skills is not a question of integration, writes Felix Engdahl. Image: MarioGuti/ Getty Images via Canva
Of: Felix Engdahl
In his work with refugees in Bulgaria, Felix Engdal meets people daily who lack basic digital skills and he believes that neither the EU nor NATO is taking the problem seriously. It is not just an integration issue, but a security policy challenge that Europe cannot afford to ignore, he believes.
April 23, 2026, Debate
The human rights organization IRC warns that return hubs risk becoming "de facto prisons" without legal protection. Image: Joshua Brown/Pexels
Of: Milla Beslic Löfdahl
The final negotiations on the EU's new migration pact have now begun. If the proposal for “return hubs” becomes a reality, migrants could be deprived of their liberty och sent to migration centers in countries outside the EU awaiting deportation. Critics warn that the rule of law and human rights are at risk of being disregarded.
April 16, 2026, News, Sweden 2026
When Bernadette Castel-Hollingsworth, UNHCR's representative in Ukraine, visited Stockholm in March, she met with the FUF editorial team and spoke about the growing humanitarian needs in Ukraine. Images: Mehreen Hayat/Utvecklingsmagasinet and Нікіта Лізейкін Pexels/Canva
Of: Meklit Teklu and Signe M. Andersson
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its fifth year. After a 2025 prowned by intintensified attacks and a harsh winter, the country is now also facing reduced international assistance. At the same timetthrough an increasingly lack of respect for international law, UNHCR's representative in Ukraine, Bernadette Castel-Hollingsworth, tells Utvecklingsmagasinet.
April 16, 2026, Interview
After Israel's offensive in Lebanon, over a million people have been displaced. Image: Waseem Istanbuli/Pexels
Of: Philippa Abrahamsson
M Simultaneously, large pharmaceutical companies – including J&J, Roche, AstraZeneca, and BMS – are have many of them difficult to leave the country.
March 30, 2026, News
90 percent of the buildings in Gaza are destroyed or damaged. Even those Gazans who are inside Gaza can be expected to live in camps for an extended period of time. Image: Hosny Sala/ Pixabay
Of: Signe M. Andersson
President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza is being praised by the outside world, but the perspective and rights of refugees are conspicuous by their absence. That the same president who talks about peace for Gaza describes people on the run as "an attack on Western countries and their borders" rings hollow for Palestinians hoping to return home, writes FUF's Brussels correspondent Signe M. Andersson.
October 21, 2025, Analysis, FUF-correspondents
Almost as many people have fled from Venezuela as from Ukraine, but the crisis in Venezuela receives considerably less resources from the outside world. Photo: Wilfredor. Source: Wikimedia commons.
Of: Vilma Ellemark
Millions of people have been forced to leave both Venezuela and Ukraine. Even so, only 16 percent of the aid response to Venezuelan refugees and migrants has been funded this year, compared to 71 percent of the response to Ukraine. - I don't think people understand how bad the crisis in Venezuela is, says León Poblete, researcher in economics at Uppsala University.
November 23, 2022, Reportage
From January to September 2022, the number of people who left Lebanon for Europe has increased by 70 percent compared to the same period last year. Pictured: Rubber boat arrives at the Greek island of Lesbos. Photo: Penelope Schulman. Source: Flickr.
Of: Amanda Rossling
Widespread poverty, lack of sanitation and substandard health care are some examples of the deteriorating situation in Lebanon. More and more people want to leave the country, and last September at least 94 people died when a boat with refugees crashed in the Mediterranean.
November 10, 2022, News
Tens of thousands of migrants have set up camp on the US-Mexico border while awaiting asylum. Photo: Christian Palma. Source: Flickr.
Of: Hanne Karlsson
Tens of thousands of refugees and migrants, mainly from Haiti, have been deported from the United States and Mexico in the past month. Many of them have been forced to leave the countries without being given the opportunity to seek asylum. Several human rights organizations claim that this is both discriminatory, illegal treatment and something that violates migrants' human rights.
November 11, 2021, Analysis
Of: Zozan Palonen Uzun
Migrants are subjected to illegal pushbacks in the EU by border police, which is a violation of human rights. The book The Black Book of Pushback highlights how people fleeing EU borders are exposed to systematic violence. The book has documented over 12 cases where people are affected by illegal pushbacks where the majority have been subjected to various types of violence.
June 24, 2021, News
