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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 22/2018

June 12, 2018 - Open Migration

The ship Aquarius - full of migrants rescued by the Italian Navy and Coast Guard, among others - will not be allowed to dock in any Italian port and it should go to Malta instead: the decision was made by Italy’s Interior Minister Salvini and Transport Minister Toninelli (who is technically in charge of ports). The SOS Méditerranéee ship, also operated by Doctors Without Borders, is awaiting for new instructions off the coast of Sicily, amid concerns over the conditions of the 629 men, women and children on board.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 20/2018

May 29, 2018 - Open Migration

An attempted escape from the notorious secret camp of Bani Walid left at least 15 dead after local militia opened fire on the detainees. While migrant rescue operations are still underway in the Mediterranean - with more than 2,000 rescued over the last few days - a project involving 13 Italian universities has identified many nameless dead.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 19/2018

May 22, 2018 - Open Migration

A two-year-old girl was killed in Mons after police opened fire on a van carrying migrants heading to the UK. The review commission of the Ragusa court has rejected the prosecution’s appeal against the decision to release the Open Arms rescue ship, and confirmed that Libya is not a safe harbour as defined by international law. More migrants and refugees are being held in the country’s detention centres.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 18/2018

May 15, 2018 - Open Migration

Supported by Forensic Architecture, some of the survivors from the November 6 2017 shipwreck have filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights against Italy, which had a role in the disaster that caused more than 20 deaths. Niger, one of the key partners to Italy and the EU, has sent 132 Sudanese refugees back to Libya. After a five-day odyssey, the 105 migrants rescued by the Astral have finally disembarked in Catania. DNA from Medhanie Tesfamariam Behre’s son shows that the man tried in Sicily for the 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck is not the “real” Mered.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 17/2018

May 8, 2018 - Open Migration

Tensions are still high in the Mediterranean between NGO vessels involved in rescue efforts and Libyan patrols intercepting them; meanwhile, the authorities are playing the blame game. In Zuwara, one of the camps is on the verge of collapse. In Italy, the exploitation of migrant labour is becoming a never-ending cycle with no durable solutions in sight.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 15/2018

April 24, 2018 - Open Migration

The Mediterranean is still a controversial place: new rescue operations have been successfully carried out by SeaWatch, SOS Méditerranée and EUNAVFORMED, the Pro Activa ship Open Arms has been released, while an appeal ruling in Italy confirmed that Jugend Rettet's ship Iuventa remains impounded (despite new evidence that might help clear the German NGO of all charges). Last Thursday, a European initiative called for a ban on the criminalisation of solidarity. Meanwhile, a new Refugees International report details the abuse on migrants detained in Libya, while Austria is threatening to seize refugees' mobile phones and demand cash. The UK has been hit by the scandal of the "Windrush generation", while people in France took to the streets for jobs and for migrants.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 14/2018

April 17, 2018 - Open Migration

The latest news on the release of the Open Arms ship open our review, which also focuses on the Lamepdusa hotspot, finally closed in March, also thanks to reports from CILD, ASGI and Indiewatch. Those reports are now collected in a dossier featuring first-hand accounts, interviews and photographs to document the inhuman treatments of the migrants held there. Meanwhile, the Italy-Libya deal comes under heavy criticism again: the UNHCR has published a report on the horrors of migrant detention in in the country, while a delegation of MEPs has called for more evacuations.