A new report reveals nearly 1,600 children – an average of almost one every day – were reported dead or missing between 2014 and 2018, though many more go unrecorded.

As many as 70 migrants have drowned after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, according to a UN migration official and Tunisia's state news agency.

Spain's Maritime Rescue Service has found 11 dead migrants in a boat off the country's southern coast and rescued more than 30 other passengers.

A Cork nurse aboard the migrant search and rescue ship, Aquarius, has given us an exclusive behind the scenes look at the challenges facing those involved in rescue efforts across the Mediterranean.

Police in Croatia said they have intercepted a group of 10 migrants in a dense forest, and another two who had apparently died en route.

A rescue boat carrying 87 African migrants and refugees saved in the Mediterranean Sea has docked at the southern Spanish port of Algeciras.

The European Commission is proposing that EU member states be paid €6,000 to accept and deal with each migrant saved at sea in the Mediterranean as they attempt to reach the European Union.

The Defence Forces Chief of Staff says saving lives and preventing crime are top priorities for the Irish Navy.

The Tánaiste says he hopes Ireland's decision to take 25 migrants from a stranded rescue ship will encourage other EU countries to do the same.

Italian premier Giuseppe Conte has said his country will take some of the migrants on board a rescue ship which has been stranded near Malta for days.

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez said his country is prepared to be part of a European response to the plight of a German-operated migrant aid ship - but did not specify whether it will allow the vessel to dock.

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has urged EU member countries to put more money into an Africa trust fund as the bloc looks to set up migrant screening centres outside Europe.

Just as European leaders were preparing their overnight bags for yesterday’s emergency summit on immigration in Brussels, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was told to leave a Virginia restaurant because she works for US president Donald Trump.

As a coalition of 24 organisations we condemn the US policy of separating children from their parents.

France’s dispute with Italy over the Aquarius migrant ship, which is now on its way to Spain, was diplomatically inept and hypocritical, writes Ferdinando Giugliano.

With 258m migrants worldwide, the UN is leading talks that could have a big impact on how countries treat refugees, writes Kumi Naidoo.

The UK and France are "making a new tapestry together", Emmanuel Macron said as he agreed new co-operation on defence and measures to tackle the migrant crisis with Theresa May.

As many as 64 people are feared dead after a smugglers' rubber dinghy sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, according to the UN's migration agency.

A number of people have been arrested in Brussels after police officers were attacked on the margins of a protest over the recent revelations of migrant slave markets in Libya.

Greece’s migration minister has said the government is considering emergency measures to house migrants and refugees confined to Greek islands over the winter months following a roughly four-fold increase in the number of daily arrivals from Turkey.

More than 150 migrants have been rescued by Romania's coast guard from a ship in distress on the Black Sea.

A request under the Freedom of Information Act has been lodged with the Department of Defence in an attempt to establish why a Naval Service ship was delayed by more than three weeks from leaving her base to save migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Chief Executive of Oxfam Ireland has suggested that the criticism by EU leaders of US President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on refugees and immigrants highlights their own hypocrisy in the face of Europe’s flawed migration response.

Irish naval vessel, LÉ Samuel Beckett, has rescued 130 migrants off the coast of Tripoli.

The Immigrant Council has called for a community response to the migrant crisis.

After first opening the doors of Germany to migrants in need of help, pressure from within and across the rest of Europe has forced Angela Merkel into an uneasy agreement with Turkey. Despite the fact that it seems to be working, it may damage her legacy, says Leonid Bershidsky

The State’s independent human rights watchdog has criticised Ireland’s support for the EU-Turkey deal on the return of refugees and migrants.

If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own — a republic of the rootless — it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a population of more than 240m people, writes Mark Leonard 

President Michael D Higgins has challenged Europe’s response to the refugee crisis, asking if it will be defined by barbed wire, tear gas, and rubber bullets.

EU leaders agreed the outline of an agreement they hope to put to Turkey this morning to ease the migrant crisis.

Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the US-led alliance will discuss this week whether to get more involved in trying to stem Europe’s ongoing migration crisis.

Austria will step up deportations of migrants and is adding Morocco, Algeria, and other states to a list of countries it deems safe, enabling it to send people back there more quickly, government ministries said on Sunday.

The European Union is to call on African leaders to play their part in trying to solve the migration crisis by taking back the economic migrants.

Slovenia has started erecting a wire fence along its border with Croatia to help control the flow of people arriving daily.

EU and Balkan leaders may have agreed a new plan at the weekend to tackle the refugee crisis but in the meantime the steady flow of migrants continues.

The Austrian authorities say around 4,500 refugees overran their border with Slovenia at Spielfeld on Tuesday afternoon.

Slovenia’s given its army new powers to help police guard its state borders as thousands of migrants continue to pour into the country from Croatia.

The German government has agreed to give its 16 states a total of around 4 billion euros next year to help them deal with the increased number of migrants and refugees entering the country.

EU ministers are to meet and try to resolve a dispute over how to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers who have recently arrived in Europe.

Canada will issue thousands of more visas to Syrian refugees before the end of this year by accelerating the processing of applications.