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17.02.2021, Daily Mail
Campaign group calls for more testing at Mavrovouni, a temporary facility housing thousands of refugees on the Greek island read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
17.02.2021, Are You Syrious
Finally some good news! On Tuesday, the High Court ruled that 6 migrants will be allowed to continue their case against the use of Napier Barracks to house migrants. Lawyers brought evidence to how the conditions in Napier Barracks breached the rights of asylum seekers, therefore showing how the Home Office had failed in its duty to provide adequate accommodation. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Großbritannien, Griechenland / Türkei
17.02.2021, InfoMigrants
Notis Mitarakis, the Greek migration minister, has branded allegations of Greek pushbacks "part of the comprehensive fake news strategy" promoted by Turkey -- according to the German news agency dpa. Mitarakis denied that Greece was pushing migrants back to Turkey or preventing them from applying for asylum within Greece. Dpa reported that Mitarakis told the Greek newspaper To Vima that Turkey was pushing these claims through non-governmental organizations and smugglers’ networks. Last week, the NGO Mare Liberum said it had documented "close to 10,000 people" pushed back in 2020 alone in 321 documented incidents. They added that 2020 represented an "unprecedented escalation of human rights violations in the Aegean." read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
In 2018, Germany's asylum office BAMF came under fire for supposedly wrongly issuing numerous positive asylum decisions. Now, German courts have ruled in favor of 66 refugees whose positive asylum decisions had been revoked. German administrative courts have ruled in favor of 66 refugees after they brought lawsuits against the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees BAMF. They were appealing the withdrawal of their positive asylum decisions. That's according to the newspapers of the Funke Media Group from Wednesday (February 16) citing an answer by the federal government to an inquiry of the Left parliamentary group. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Deutschland
17.02.2021, Zeit
May refugees in the Mediterranean be forced to turn back? If their boats are not in distress, yes, say the EU border guards. Their chief praises his agency. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
16.02.2021, Deutschlandfunk
In view of the conditions in the refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos, CDU member of parliament Kauder and his SPD colleague Mattheis call for swift action by the federal government. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union, Weltweit
16.02.2021, Sebastian Münzenmaier
On Wednesday, almost 130 migrants are to land in Hanover on a charter plane from Lesbos. The transfer is based on the agreement between Angela Merkel and Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Nea Dimokratia), which guarantees the transfer of a total of 1533 migrants from Greece to Germany. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Deutschland
The facility in Saatari camp is the first of its kind in the world, said a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. According to him, around 2,000 of the 80,000 residents of the camp on the border with Syria have registered for vaccination. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Naher Osten
16.02.2021, EU Observer
EU asylum standards codified by the Greek state are failing traumatised people, according to a Greek NGO. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union, Weltweit
15.02.2021, Info Migrants
It was a busy weekend in the central Mediterranean. The Spanish rescue organization Open Arms said that it had picked up 146 migrants in two separate rescue operations. Meanwhile, the Tunisian navy said that it had picked up 25 from a shipwreck, with one person confirmed dead and about 22 missing. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika
15.02.2021, Legal Centre Lesvos
The request is based on an accumulation of evidence showing Frontex and its Executive Director have failed to act, in infringement of European Treaties, in relation to fundamental rights and international protection obligations in the Aegean Sea region. read more
15.02.2021, Independent Balkan News Agency
The Milan-based Catholic charity Caritas Ambrosiana announced that construction work is progressing in Lipa, in north-western Bosnia and Herzegovina, on a new canteen for migrants in the area. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Europäische Union
15.02.2021, Guardian
After witnessing abuse and discrimination, Sherif Targi*, 21, decided to leave Libya for Europe. “I saw killing and massacres because of the conflicts between Tuaregs and the Tebu [ethnic minorities],” he says. Targi is a Tuareg from the desert city of Ubari in Libya’s south-west. Under Muammar Gaddafi, Tuareg people were marginalised – not issued government IDs, and restricted from getting work and public services. Things didn’t improve after the dictator was ousted. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union, Afrika
15.02.2021, InfoMigrants
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on February 9 called on the European Union and its member states to take urgent action to end pushbacks, collective expulsions, and the use of violence against migrants and refugees, including children, at the EU's external land and maritime borders. The organization said in a statement that the "alarming situation" at some of the EU's external borders "highlights the need to improve migration and asylum policy and governance and implement humane and integrated rights-based practices." read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union
15.02.2021, Die Zeit
From Bosnia-Herzegovina, they want to make it to Europe: Refugees dwell here in need and try again and again. As brutal as the Croatian border guards are. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Balkanstaaten
15.02.2021, Spiegel
A team of lawyers wants to legally force the European border protection agency Frontex to withdraw from its mission in the Aegean Sea. This emerges from a letter that SPIEGEL was able to inspect. In the letter, the group led by lawyers Omer Shatz, Iftach Cohen and Anastasia Ntailiani level serious accusations against Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri. "Frontex is complicit in the Greek policy of abandoning vulnerable migrants at sea," Shatz says. He calls the illegal pushbacks in the Aegean Sea, which SPIEGEL has documented several times together with research partners, "crimes against humanity"; they are illegal expulsions, torture and potential murder. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europäische Union
13.02.2021, noticias de Gipuzkoa
Ni el invierno ni la pandemia frenan el éxodo migratorio entre Libia e Italia. El 'Aita Mari' viaja a la zona para dar cuenta del drama existente y prestar el auxilio necesario. read more
Language(s): Spanisch / Español Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika
12.02.2021, Deutsche Welle
As divided as the EU states may be on asylum policy, there is one thing they can agree on: protecting the EU's borders. But Frontex, the agency entrusted with this task, is in crisis. Marina Strauß from Brussels. Marko Gašperlin can be reached by phone at the Slovenian Ministry of the Interior. He is one of those who are trying to bring a heated debate back down to room temperature. A debate about how big the problems really are at the EU border guards of Frontex - especially with regard to possible violations of fundamental rights. When it comes to the external borders of the European Union, there are different positions, says Gašperlin. Those of the human rights organizations that denounce violations. And those of the police, border guards and coast guards, whose job it is to prevent illegal migration. read more
12.02.2021, InfoMigrants
Many migrants complain that they have not been able to apply for asylum when they cross the border into France. According to them, the French border police (PAF) refuse to take their asylum applications and immediately send them back to neighboring Italy. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Frankreich
11.02.2021, Statewatch
Recent Statewatch complaints to the European Ombudsman have resulted in significant victories for transparency over the activities of EU justice and home affairs agencies, but one decision made by the Ombudsman approves of restrictions placed by Frontex on the right of non-EU citizens to file requests for access to documents read more
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