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23.02.2021, EU Observer
Romania denies helping Greece force people back into Turkish waters - despite video footage of it blocking a migrant boat in the Aegean sea. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Griechenland / Türkei
Four migrants trying to get from the Spanish exclave of Melilla in Morocco by ship had buried themselves in broken glass in a container to hide, Spanish authorities said Monday read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Spanien, Nordafrika
23.02.2021, Migazin
An Italian freighter rescued 232 boat people and recovered one person dead. Another ship docked in Sicily with 102 rescued people on board. Meanwhile, more refugee boats are approaching Lampedusa. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Europäische Union
22.02.2021, ref
The Italian cargo ship "Asso Trenta" has brought 232 boat refugees to Porto Empedocle in Sicily. During the rescue of the people in distress at sea, a body was also recovered, Italian radio reported on Monday, 22 February. They were to be transferred to the quarantine ship "Allegra" after Corona tests. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika
22.02.2021, Aegean Boat Report
In yet another shocking breach of international law, men, women and children have been beaten, robbed and forced onto a life raft by Greek authorities, despite repeated government claims that it does not undertake ‘pushbacks’ of refugees into Turkey. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
22.02.2021, Spiegel
Turkish President Erdoğan is using migrants as a bargaining chip in his dispute with the EU. His accusations against Greece are true - but Ankara is no less brutal. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
22.02.2021, Al Jazeera
Security forces arrested six traffickers who kept a house-turned-prison in Kufra and referred them to prosecutors. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika
22.02.2021, Info Migrants
The European Commission has begun an infringement procedure against Hungary for its law on NGOs commonly known as 'Stop Soros', which bans foreign-funded organizations from providing assistance to migrants. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Europäische Union
Families try to cross the Bosnian-Croatian border into the EU. Children have to watch their parents being humiliated - and re-enact the experience in refugee camps. They don't play "cops and robbers," but migrants being chased by border police: Children from refugee families stranded in Bosnia-Herzegovina sometimes imitate "The Game" - the game that is everyday life for them. That's how the asylum seekers refer to their attempts to cross the border into Croatia to enter the EU. In the process, most are repeatedly brutally stopped and forced back by border guards - and some children have to watch as their parents are robbed, beaten and humiliated, or are subjected to violence themselves. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Balkanstaaten
22.02.2021, Aljazeera
The UN refugee agency is calling for the immediate rescue of a group of Rohingya refugees after their boat broke down in the Andaman Sea leaving them adrift for days without food or water. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or UNHCR says it received reports of an “unconfirmed number of Rohingya refugees aboard a vessel in distress as of the evening of Saturday 20th February.” read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Weltweit
22.02.2021, Aegean Boar Report
In yet another shocking breach of international law, men, women and children have been beaten, robbed and forced onto a life raft by Greek authorities, despite repeated government claims that it does not undertake ‘pushbacks’ of refugees into Turkey. Thirteen men, women and children were forcibly removed from a refugee camp in Lesvos on Wednesday night by uniformed operatives, who claimed the refugees were being taken to be tested for COVID-19. Instead, they were forced into an isobox, repeatedly beaten with batons, stripped of their possessions and forced into the sea on an inflatable life raft. read more
22.02.2021, Are You Syrious
Chaotic weekend in the central Med. Updates from the Greek islands, the Italian/French border and Germany. More evictions in Calais. Concerns over government-run hotel in the UK. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Frankreich, Italien / Malta, Griechenland / Türkei, Deutschland, Europäische Union
21.02.2021, The Civil Fleet
BETHANY RIELLY writes on the mental health crisis experienced by the refugee kids trapped in Greece’s Moria 2 camp. Camp conditions cause children to break down instead of their past traumas. read more
19.02.2021, Deutschlandfunk
The man is filing a lawsuit against the allegedly disproportionate actions of the police during an operation at the initial reception centre in Ellwangen and during his deportation in 2018. The incidents in Ellwangen made headlines across Germany at the time. Many media had reported at the time, citing the police, that the refugees had tried to prevent a deportation with massive violence. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
19.02.2021, Euraktiv
The European Union’s migration commissioner Ylva Johansson urged Bosnia on Thursday (18 February) to manage migration properly and share the burden of its migrant crisis equally across the country if it is to stay on course for EU membership. read more
19.02.2021, Deutsches Verbände Forum
(Brussels/Berlin) - The German Bar Association (DAV) supports the position of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) that effective access to justice must also be guaranteed at Europe's external borders. The German President of the CCBE, Dr Margarete Gräfin von Galen, advocated for this at the 49th European Presidents' Conference of the lawyers' organisation. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Europäische Union
19.02.2021, Greenpeace
One year ago today, a racist murdered nine people in Hanau read more
18.02.2021, technopolice
Comment le business de la sécurité et de la surveillance au sein de l’Union européenne, en plus de bafouer des droits fondamentaux, utilise les personnes exilées comme laboratoire de recherche, et ce sur des fonds publics européens. read more
Language(s): Französisch / Français Region(s): Europäische Union
18.02.2021, Borderline Sicilia
Badu arrived in Italy three years ago as a minor. Thanks to his willpower and the support of associations and volunteers who accompanied him, he managed to become independent within a short time. Last year, he had managed to work under the table as a dishwasher and painter. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German
18.02.2021, The New Humanitarian
Wadah al-Keesh is used to handling dead bodies; fighters and civilians abandoned on Libya’s front lines. But a decade after the violent revolt that unseated Muammar Gaddafi – and after yet another year of fighting – recovering people from mass graves in a town notorious for brutal violence against civilians is different. read more
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