Humanitarian vessel on aid mission to Gaza rescues 4 migrants at sea; dozens returned to Libya – A ship carrying activists, including Greta Thunberg, to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid rescued four people on Thursday after they had jumped into the sea from another vessel to avoid being picked up by Libyan authorities.
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Humanitarian vessel on aid mission to Gaza rescues 4 migrants at sea; dozens returned to Libya
A ship carrying high-profile activists including Greta Thunberg to Gaza rescued four migrants on Thursday who had jumped into the sea to avoid bein...
Frontex wants greater intelligence access as EU mulls expanding powers – Frontex, the EU's border agency, wants more access to data and intelligence as part of a wish-list of expanded powers.
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Frontex wants greater intelligence access as EU mulls expanding powers
Frontex, the EU
"Research shows that hundreds of people seeking safety in the UK have been imprisoned for arriving on a small boat. Among those imprisoned are refugees, victims of torture &children prosecuted as adults. This practice breaches international law."
Faculty of Law
“I told them the truth”: New research on the
Research presented in a new report 'I told them the truth: An update on the criminalisation of
Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights nonprofit based in New York.
Rest of World
VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.
The forest between Belarus and Poland at Europe’s eastern frontier has become a corridor of cruelty, allege some humanitarian organizations working in the region. In mid-March, the latest report on this region was published by the NGOs Oxfam and a Polish grassroots organization Egala, which works on the ground with migrants. Their report, entitled 'Brutal Barriers,' alleged incidents of pushbacks, violence and the violation of human rights at the border with Belarus.
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'Brutal barriers'? A closer look at the EU's eastern border
Since August 2021, the EU's eastern border has become a fought-over focus of EU&#x...
Knife is said to have been granted asylum in Canada, where he now owns a barber shop. In Libya he made a living from torturing migrants in order to extract money from their families. ‘Every morning you’re on a phone calling your family. You tell them: I’m dying, send me the money,’ Even told me. His mother sold her jewellery to pay the ransom of $4500 He calculated that since leaving Eritrea 3 years earlier, he had shelled out $11,500 to people smugglers and traffickers.
London Review of Books
Jérôme Tubiana · Diary: Safe and Unsafe Ports
In 2019, I made several visits to Dhar al-Jebel, a Libyan detention centre better known as Zintan, after the nearest...
Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders unveils a 10-point plan to slash migration in the Netherlands – Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders announced a 10-point plan Monday [26 May] that aims to radically slash migration, including using the army to guard land borders and turning away all people seeking asylum.
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Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders unveils a 10-point plan to slash migration in the Netherlands
Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has announced a 10-point plan that aims to radically slash migration, including using the army to guard land...
Greek coastguards charged over 2023 migrant shipwreck – A naval court in Greece has charged 17 coastguards over the deadliest boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea for a decade.
Greek coastguards charged over 2023 migrant shipwreck
Seventeen coastguards have been charged by a Greek naval court over the deadliest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean Sea for a decade.
France sees immigration shift as more educated Africans arrive than Europeans – More people coming to France have degrees – and most now come from Africa rather than the rest of Europe, new figures from the country’s statistics bureau show.
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France sees immigration shift as more educated Africans arrive than Europeans
More immigrants coming to France have degrees – and most now come from Africa rather than the rest of Europe, new figures from the country’s s...
Council of Europe defends human rights court amid tensions over migrant returns – The Council of Europe has pushed back against calls from nine member states to revise how the European Court of Human Rights interprets migration-related cases. Secretary General Alain Berset warned against politicizing the court, stressing that its independence is essential to protecting fundamental rights and democratic stability across Europe.
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Council of Europe defends human rights court amid tensions over migrant returns
The Council of Europe has pushed back against calls from nine member states to&#x2...