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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.

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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.

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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.

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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 16/2018

May 2, 2018 - Open Migration
The scandal over the Windrush generation - further proof of a “hostile environment” to foreigners - has led the British Interior Minister to resign. Elsewhere, however, things are very different: in France, three volunteers are facing trial for helping migrants cross the borders, while 35 migrants will be tried in Greece for protesting outside the Moria Refugee camp; other migrants were attacked by right-wing extremists on Lesbos. Meanwhile, Libyans are starting to flee their own country due to rising level of violence.

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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.

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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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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 13/2018

April 11, 2018 - Open Migration
The Catania GIP has dropped the charge of criminal conspiracy against members of ProActiva Open Arms, but the NGO’s ship is still impounded and the case is still ongoing with new developments. Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court has obtained the report by UN Secretary Guterres, which focuses on the allegations of human rights violations against migrants in Libya. We then go to Niger, where the agreement with Italy is at risk, and Bardonecchia, following a police raid in a migrant centre that has ignited controversy over the last few days.

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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 12/2018

March 28, 2018 - Open Migration
The Open Arms, a ship from the NGO Proactiva, has been seized in the port of Pozzallo; three members of the Spanish NGO have been charged with aiding illegal immigration. In France, mountain guide Benoît Duclos is facing 5 years in jail for helping a pregnant woman at altitude of 2,000 metres. The informal settlement on via Vannina in Rome, where many homeless refugees had gathered, has been evacuated again. In Venice, a new protocol between the Courts and the Bar Association is raising concerns.

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