LONDON: Spain and local authorities in Ceuta must provide adequate shelter to migrants and asylum seekers who arrived in the exclave last month, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Those who wish to apply for asylum should also be given the opportunity to do so, the organization added. “Thousands of people have been in the streets in a legal vacuum, exposed to sexual violence and without adequate shelter, food or sanitation for almost three weeks,” said Judith Sunderland, senior associate director for refugee and migrant rights at HRW.

On Thursday morning, it began relocating over 1,000 people from the beach to reception centres set up in army tents.

The Spanish government announced on Thursday the creation of shelters for 1,800 migrants in Ceuta in a bid to relieve the humanitarian crisis there following last month's influx…