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05.03.2022, Der Spiegel
Auf dem Meer treibende Schlauchboote, überfüllte Holzschiffe: Immer wieder wagen Menschen von Nordafrika aus die gefährliche Überfahrt nach Europa. Jetzt retteten Hilfsorganisationen mehr als hundert von ihnen. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Nordafrika, Europa
04.03.2022, Unicef
UNICEF lancia oggi il rapporto “Non ero al sicuro in casa sua”, un’indagine qualitativa che fa luce sull’impatto negativo della pandemia su ragazze e donne rifugiate e migranti in Italia. La discriminazione già legata al genere e al percorso di migrazione, unita alle sfide imposte dal COVID-19, aumenterebbe la loro probabilità di subire violenza. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Italien / Malta
04.03.2022, MiGAZIN
Contrary to numerous eyewitness and victim reports in social media, the German UN spokesperson Melzer sees no signs of racist rejections of refugees from Ukraine. The German government's human rights commissioner, however, calls for the acceptance of all those seeking protection - regardless of their passports. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German
04.03.2022, InfoMigrants
In 2020, a monk in Germany decided to take in a rejected asylum seeker from the Palestinian Territories who was facing deportation. For years, the legality of such an interpretation of church asylum remained unclear. Now, for the first time ever in Germany, there is a final ruling on this kind of case, which could serve as a legal precedent for future trials. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Deutschland
04.03.2022, Statewatch
Frontex has finally acted on its obligation to create a Public Register of Documents, while it is simultaneously the subject of a reportedly explosive report by the EU’s anti-fraud body – a report which is not (yet) public. The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee (LIBE) has demanded the report's publication. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union
04.03.2022, the journal
The bodies of four African migrants have been found in eastern Tunisia, authorities told AFP, saying they had probably died of cold or hunger after crossing the Algerian border. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika
04.03.2022, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
London - The British House of Lords has put a severe damper on the British government's controversial plans to tighten asylum policy. The representatives of the House of Lords voted late on Monday evening with a clear majority against the plan to criminalise refugees who enter the country on illegal routes. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Großbritannien
04.03.2022, Inicijativa Dobrodošli! / Welcome! Initiative
The Centre for Peace Studies and the Welcome Initiative published a new, seventh report on violent and illegal expulsions about the 6-year-long systemic violence and denial of access to asylum in Croatia. The report provides an overview of the last two years, marked by the escalation of violence and inhumane treatment in which police officers tortured, humiliated and illegally expelled thousands of refugees from the Republic of Croatia. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten
04.03.2022, EU Observer
European interior ministers reached an unanimous agreement on Thursday (3 March) giving most everyone fleeing Ukraine safe refuge and extended rights to stay in the European Union for up to one year. The plan offers immediate protection status to millions of Ukrainian nationals and long-term residents of Ukraine seeking refuge in the EU as of 24 February onwards. But almost everyone else, like short-stay foreign students from Africa in Ukraine, are not covered and would instead be accommodated and fed in the EU before being repatriated to their home countries. read more
03.03.2022, ANSAmed
Sono 380 le persone entrate in Spagna dopo aver scavalcato la barriera al confine tra il Marocco e l'enclave di Melilla, nel secondo giorno di forte pressione migratoria su questa frontiera: lo ha reso noto a media iberici la delegata del governo centrale, Sabrina Moh. In totale, circa 1.200 persone hanno tentato di accedere in territorio spagnolo, portando a un intervento delle forze dell'ordine. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Spanien, Nordafrika
03.03.2022, Aljazeera
At least one million people have fled Ukraine in the week since Russia’s invasion, the United Nations said, with one official warning that “at this rate” the exodus could become “the biggest 'refugee crisis' this century”. The agency cautioned that the outflows were far from finished: It has predicted that as many as 4 million people could eventually leave Ukraine, and even that projection could be revised upward. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europa
02.03.2022, Alarm Phone
In the second half of 2021, Alarm Phone was alerted to 214 boats in the central Mediterranean region. Together with the 193 boats that Alarm Phone had supported in the first half of the year, in 2021 we assisted a total of 407 boats in distress in the central Mediterranean only. This is by far the highest number of distress cases reported to us in this region within a year. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika, Europa
02.03.2022, Ansa med
Some 2,000 people on Wednesday morning attempted to climb the barrier at the border between Morocco and Spain in the enclave of Melilla, including 500 who were able to cross into Spanish territory, the delegation of the central Spanish government told local media. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Spanien, Afrika
02.03.2022, InfoMigrants
Frontex leaders actively tried to conceal information that Greek officials carried out pushbacks in the Aegean Sea, according to a report from European Anti-Fraud Office OLAF cited by German news magazine Spiegel. OLAF investigators alleged that three members of the senior management deliberately did not classify pushback cases as human rights violations. OLAF has recommended that the agency's management board take disciplinary action against them The board -- which is made up in large part of representatives of the Schengen countries -- is expected to discuss the matter at a meeting next Monday (March 7), according to Spiegel. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English
02.03.2022, Statewatch
The European Commission has proposed that the Council of the EU recommend that Greece "carry out independent investigations into all serious allegations of ill-treatment by the Hellenic Police and Hellenic Coast Guard at external borders" that are "capable of leading to the identification and punishment of those responsible." read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
Attempts by the EU and its member states to step up identity controls by equipping police and immigration authorities with new biometric technologies are likely to see both ethnic minority citizens and non-citizens subjected to unwarranted intrusions into their everyday activities, argues a report published today by Statewatch. read more
02.03.2022, ORF
In dealing with refugees at Europe's external borders, the EU's anti-fraud agency (OLAF) is making serious accusations against the EU's border protection agency Frontex. OLAF accuses the agency, based in Warsaw, of covering up illegal rejections - also known as pushbacks - of migrants in the Mediterranean, as "Der Spiegel" reported today. According to the report, managers at Frontex are said to have deliberately covered up the fact that Greek border guards were bringing refugees back to the open Mediterranean. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europäische Union
02.03.2022, Info Migrants
The leading health politician from Greece's SYRIZA party has warned that thousands of migrants and refugees risk losing free public health services when an EU-backed health program expires. read more
02.03.2022, Deutsche Welle
Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing Ukraine. What will happen to them in Germany and the European Union? Answers to the most important questions. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Europäische Union
At least nine migrants have died after their boat capsized off the Tunisian coast, the country's defense ministry has said. Nine other passengers were reportedly rescued. read more
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