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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 25/2018

July 3, 2018 - Open Migration

More than 160 people have drowned in shipwrecks off the coasts of Libya. This is the first death toll since Libya obtained its own SAR zone. As the NGO ships are denied docking ports, supplies and free circulation, rescue operations at sea are becoming all but impossible.

In the hands of the Libyan Coast Guard: pushbacks by proxy

June 28, 2018 - Laura Clarke

In the first five months of the year, over 42 per cent of migrants who departed from Libya for Italy and survived the journey were returned to Libyan shores. This compares to approximately 11 per cent in the same period in 2017. The increase is to be seen in the context of the "pushback by proxy" strategy adopted by Italy through the activities of the Libyan coast guard.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 24/2018

June 26, 2018 - Open Migration

During a week that saw Trump partially backtrack on separating migrant children from their families, tensions are still high in the Mediterranean between the Italian government and the NGOs. With the ports still closed to rescue ships and the Coast Guard announcing it will not carry out rescue operations outside of Italian territorial waters, over 800 people who were fleeing Libya were pushed back.

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 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.

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