Tag: Humanitarian Corridors ⁄ Open Migration

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 25/2019

June 25, 2019 - Open Migration

As World Refugee Day was promoted by the UNHCR (70 million are forcibly displaced worldwide), the Sea Watch is still being refused a docking port: 43 people have been waiting at sea for 12 days, as the case reaches the Strasbourg Court.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 23/2019

June 11, 2019 - Open Migration

New reports from Libyan detention camps, while deaths on the Mediterranean migrant route are on the rise.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 42/2018

November 6, 2018 - Open Migration

Led by Chancellor Kurz, Austria has withdrawn from the Global Compact on migrants and it might even take with it other Visegrad countries. As the EU strikes migrant camps in North Africa from its agenda, more and more Italian city are saying no to the Salvini bill.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 9/2018

March 6, 2018 - Open Migration

Italy has just wrapped up its general election and the results are clear: millions have voted for populist, anti-EU and anti-immigrant views. The election campaign was marked by strong anti-immigrant sentiments, culminating in episodes of violence, the latest being the attack on a human rights group in Macerata. We then take a look at the outer borders of Europe, where pushbacks and violations of human rights are still underway, and Libya, where the UNHCR is working to open new humanitarian corridors. Finally, some news from the USA, where the Supreme Court has made two contrasting decisions on immigrants, and post-Brexit UK.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 7/2018

February 20, 2018 - Open Migration

The foreign press has covered the march in Macerata, where thousands of people of people protested against racism and Luca Traini’s attack on migrants. In France, the National Court of Asylum has gone on strike to protest new government measures that would restrict access to asylum claim. Also: fresh violence against migrant centres in Italy, an investigation into the roots of intolerance, the voices of the victims in Macerata and much more.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 28/2017

July 18, 2017 - Open Migration

Deaths in the Mediterranean: the fault lies not with the humanitarian NGOs, but with the failed EU policies, which haven’t stopped smugglers and have only led to more victims. A limbo at the border: the desert between Tunisia and Libya, the closing of the Turkish-Greek route and its consequences on the mental health of refugees, the plight of unwanted Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. A hope for reception: the successful experiment of humanitarian corridors, how to really help refugees at home (your own), and art for integration. All of this and more in our weekly web-review.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 17/2017

May 3, 2017 - Open Migration

What is behind the witch-hunt on the NGOs rescuing lives at sea? Why the attempt to dismantle solidarity through criminalisation in Europe? Also: the heartening stories of the “rebels” in the French valley fighting for the rights to take in migrants, and the successful experiment of humanitarian corridors in Italy. Last: the recurring, dangerous myth of one million African migrants ready to land in Europe…