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04.02.2021, Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland
Rome. The private aid ship "Ocean Viking" rescued around 130 boat migrants from distress in international waters off Libya on Thursday. This was announced by the operator organisation SOS Mediterranee. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Naher Osten, Europäische Union
04.02.2021, Tagesspiegel
Right-wing extremists are likely to have committed more attacks in 2020 than at any time since 2001. The police have already reported more than 23,000 offences. Frank Jansen read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
03.02.2021, SOS Mediterranee
On January 25, the Asso Trenta, an Italian offshore supply vessel, disembarked 75 survivors in Lampedusa after rescuing them from a boat in distress near an offshore oil station off the coast of Libya where the ship operates, Mediterraneo Cronaca reported read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika
03.02.2021, InfoMigrants
A visit by Italian members of the European Parliament last Saturday to the border between Croatia and Bosnia to check on living conditions of migrants at the refugee camps in Bihac "was nothing other than the umpteenth provocation against Croatian police" and "an attempt to discredit the reputation" of the country, said Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic on Monday. Croatia raised its tone and accused Italian members of the European Parliament from the Democratic Party (PD), part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group, of "provocation", following the MEPs' visit last Saturday (January 30) to the border with Bosnia, where they were stopped for several hours. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Europäische Union
02.02.2021, Info Migrants
Authorities in the northeastern region of Friuli Venezia Giulia have expressed concern for the high number of unaccompanied foreign minors reaching Italy from the Balkan route through the northeastern border read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta
02.02.2021, DEVEX
The UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration are working with governments and partner organizations to ensure refugees and migrants are not left out of COVID-19 vaccination programs. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Weltweit
02.02.2021, Al Jazeera
Two camps destroyed during fighting in November left thousands of mostly Eritrean refugees vulnerable, caught in conflict, says UN. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika, Afrika
02.02.2021, Tagesspiegel
In 2015, he fled across the Balkan route to Bochum. Seven years later, Tareq Alaows wants to enter the Bundestag to be the voice of "all refugees". read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Naher Osten, Deutschland
01.02.2021, RSA
The Council of State Plenary will be assessing the constitutionality of provisions transferring competence for judicial review of asylum decisions, taken by the Independent Appeals Committees, from administrative appeal courts to the first-instance Administrative Courts of Athens and Piraeus. Since the end of 2019, Appeals Committees are exclusively composed by judges. The case forms part of a pilot procedure on the basis of three annulment applications supported by Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
01.02.2021, Info Migrants
The mayors of Ventimiglia, Vallecrosia and Camporosso, towns in Liguria near the border with France, expressed their refusal to open a new transit center for migrants in their areas, a proposal promoted by the Italian interior ministry read more
01.02.2021, The Conversation
For many refugees, destinations in northern Europe such as Germany and Sweden were the ultimate goal. Word-of-mouth had it that in these welfare states, the stability, democracy and human rights they were looking for would bring about new beginnings and accomplished dreams. Yet arriving in these countries often revealed a different picture. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Großbritannien, Deutschland, Österreich / Schweiz, Europäische Union
01.02.2021, Tagesschau
The Canary Islands have become a migration hotspot. About 23,000 people came last year alone. Many of them are waiting in hotels. Because the accommodations are not finished. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Spanien, Europäische Union
01.02.2021, Frontline Defenders
On 22 January 2021, human rights journalist Nidzara Ahmetasevic officially reported to police the gendered online harassment she has been experiencing on social media and the threatening messages she has been receiving from unknown men for several months. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten
01.02.2021, Are You Syrious
Residents, activists and volunteers speak out for the sixth winter in a row about conditions on the islands and the astounding, if predictable, lack of planning by the responsible bodies. read more
01.02.2021, Guardian
“Out of a total of about 8,000 migrants in Bosnia-Herzegovina, about 2,000 people are basically left to fend for themselves in abandoned buildings, squats, makeshift settlements and in forests,” Nicola Bay, the Danish Refugee Council’s Bosnia director, says. “These people include families, children and unaccompanied minors that have practically no shelter, no access to basic services and no access to proper healthcare.” read more
31.01.2021, Alarm Phone
In mid November several families reached out to the Alarm Phone asking for information about the fate of their missing loved ones. According to the relatives, 11 people (9 men, a woman and a 7 year old girl) left Tripoli port on the night of 9 November 2020, on board of a white fiberglass boat read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika
31.01.2021, oe24
The EU parliamentarians had complained on Saturday that the Croatian police wanted to prevent them from visiting the camp on the border with Bosnia. It was only with the help of the Italian ambassador in Croatia that the difficulties could be resolved. The four Socialist MEPs were able to visit the camp, where they will stay until Monday read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Italien / Malta
31.01.2021, Frankfurter Rundschau
The managing director of SOS Mediterranee Germany explains the tricks used by civilian rescue ships to make their work in the Mediterranean more difficult. The Norwegian-flagged ship "Ocean Viking" of the rescue organization SOS Mediterranee has rescued hundreds of people from rubber dinghies in the central Mediterranean Sea in recent weeks and brought them to Italy. Previously, authorities had detained the ship for five months in a Sicilian port. The ships of many other rescue organizations are also currently not allowed to leave the ports. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Griechenland / Türkei, Deutschland
30.01.2021, Avvenire.it
Erano arrivati sul confine tra Bosnia e Croazia per osservare le operazioni anti-immigrazione della polizia croata. Ma per la prima volta nella storia dell’Unione Europea quattro europarlamentari sono stati respinti senza troppi complimenti dalla polizia. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Balkanstaaten
29.01.2021, Alarm Phone
2020 was a difficult year for people all around the world. Travellers on the routes across the Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic were no exception. They faced numerous novel challenges this year. We witnessed unprecedented developments. In Morocco and Spain, not only has the Corona crisis served as yet another pretext to harass, intimidate and mistreat migrants, but the travel routes also changed significantly read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika, Europa
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