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About 1,500 people dressed in white joined the funeral procession in Brussels on Wednesday for Mawda Shawri, the two-year-old Kurdish girl killed by a police bullet during a high-speed chase.
Demonstrators hung toys and children's clothes from a washing line outside Brussels' Justice Palace in a protest against the killing of a two-year-old Kurdish girl during a police chase.
The former winter homeless shelter in the Haren neighbourhood of northern Brussels will re-open on 1 June as a facility for transmigrants.
Since Brussels’ winter shelters have closed, hundreds of transmigrants – people passing through Belgium on their way to somewhere else – have been living in North Station.
A unique event in Brussels this weekend invites Europeans, young and old, to share the objects that help them tell their own stories of migration.
Federal justice minister Jam Jambon (N-VA) and migration secretary Theo Francken were in London on Tuesday meeting the British home secretary and prime minister.
An estimated 10,000 people marched through Brussels on Sunday in a "human wave for solidarity and humanity" towards migrants.
The Belgian interior ministry has begun paying a private security firm to patrol motorway service areas in search of migrants attempting to board trucks bound for the UK.
One of the world’s leading newspapers, The New York Times, has referred to Belgian migration secretary Theo Francken as “the Flemish Trump”.
