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Young people today face many challenges resulting from climate and demographic change, global health insecurity, rapid economic and social change and a revolution in technology. The aim of the study was to provide an insight on the prevalence of youth activism, as well as understanding factors that act as motivators or barriers for such involvement.

International press freedom organisations have called for the maximum punishment for the killers of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia following revelations made by George Degiorgio of his role in the assassination and the attempt by his lawyers to seek a settlement in exchange for information about other crimes.

Judge Michael Mallia will chair a committee of experts to analyse the state of journalism and the media sector in Malta. The committee has been set up as recommended by the Public Inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, which Mallia also chaired.

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) co-signed with nine other organisations an appeal to the Maltese government to strengthen media freedom and the rule of law in Malta, following the appointment of a Committee of Experts to make recommendations to the authorities.

Malta needs legislation criminalising violence against journalists, a coalition of media freedom organisations has told the Daphne Caruana Galizia public inquiry.

Commissioner Dunja Mijatović and her team visited Malta from 11 to 16 October 2021. The present report focuses on the following issues raised during the visit: media freedom, certain aspects concerning asylum and migration, and women’s rights and gender equality.

This thematic report aims to highlight how certain laws, policies and practices related to search and rescue (SAR) and the protection of migrants at sea have negatively impacted the human rights protection of migrants transiting through Libya

Detention centres must provide detainees with humane conditions, if they are to be used to contain people, the Malta Chamber of Psychologists said.

The European Union Agency For Fundamental Rights (FRA) recently published a booklet about the 10 keys to effectively communicating human rights. It provides information and tips for NGOs and Citizens on how to talk about human rights effectively.

The state of Malta's migrant centres during COVID-19 have been laid bare in a Council of Europe report that accuses the government of breaking international law and flouting European values.

A young Sudanese man who died last year after trying to escape detention was left three hours before the alarm was raised, a damning report by a Council of Europe committee has found.

The number of migrant detainees treated for self-harm or suicide attempts rose significantly last year. Ninety-three received such treatment in the mental health facility, Mount Carmel Hospital, in 2020, amounting to four per cent of all those who arrived by sea.

In a video sent to Times of Malta, several migrants, some who have been living in the centre for close to a year, shared their experience of living in overcrowded dormitories where they say a lack of hygiene, medical attention and nutritious food has led to deteriorating mental and physical health as well as suicide attempts.

A UN team visited the island for a week-long mission in September and spoke to 76 migrants from 25 different nationalities about their conditions on arrival from Libya.

MALTA Sea Arrivals between January - December 2019. The main countries of arrival by sea of refugees and migrants in Europe, are Greece, Spain, Italy, Malta and Cyprus. Malta is located in the Central Mediterranean. In 2019, people who were rescued at sea and disembarked in Malta mostly departed from Libya. In 2019, the estimate numbers of persons who died or went missing at sea was 1,845 people.

The number of migrants being admitted to Mount Carmel hospital for mental health treatment has doubled in the last two years. As of last month, 105 migrants received treatment at the mental health hospital, compared with 53 in 2017. The figures came to light through a parliamentary question asked by Nationalist MP Mario Galea.