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07.07.2022, Balkan Insight
The European border agency Frontex has joined forces with the European Commission to overrule its own data protection commissioner. The background to this is an already long-term goal to expand a mass surveillance program at Europe's external borders in cooperation with the police authority Europol. It is planned to collect a much wider range of sensitive personal data from migrants, such as information on sexual orientation. Moreover, the collection of this data violates basic data protection guidelines and lacks regulated time limits on a maximum retention period for the data. For migrants and refugees, this results in increasing surveillance and criminalization. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union, Europa
06.07.2022, Tagesschau
People without a residence title are to be given an easier chance to obtain a right to stay in the future. This is provided for in a cabinet bill. Aid organisations say the draft does not go far enough. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Europäische Union, Europa
06.07.2022, InfoMigrants
306 migrants were rescued from distress in the Mediterranean Sea within a few days by the Ocean Viking, the rescue ship of the private sea rescue organisation SOS Mediterranée. They are currently being disembarked in Sicily. Meanwhile, the Italian Prime Minister declared that the country had reached the limits of accepting migrants. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Europa
06.07.2022, Zeit
"According to survivors, 22 migrants died during the journey, all from Mali," said IOM spokesperson Safa Msehli. According to the report, the victims drowned or died of thirst. "Among the dead are three children." read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Nordafrika, Europa, Afrika
05.07.2022, taz
Lithuania's asylum law allows the detention of refugees - an illegal regulation, according to the European Court of Justice. But the Baltic country wants to stick to it. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Osteuropa, Europäische Union, Europa
05.07.2022, Abolish Frontex
On Monday 4 July Frontex announced that its Management Board, made up of representatives of EU countries’ border authorities – mostly police officers active at national level -, has appointed Aija Kalnaja as Executive Director ad interim for the agency. The change in leadership is meant to appease the intense and growing criticism Frontex is facing. read more
04.07.2022, Zeit Online
Extortion, deprivation of rights, pushbacks: the way Greek authorities deal with refugees violates international law and EU values. But there are no consequences. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union, Europa
04.07.2022, Africa Rivista
While the recent agreement between London and Kigali caused outrage, a similar agreement signed three years ago between the Rwandan government and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees did not. Hundreds of migrants evacuated from Libya were brought to Rwanda on humanitarian flights. There they risk being stranded for years. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Nordafrika, Europa, Afrika, Weltweit
04.07.2022, Reuters
A U.N.-appointed mission to Libya said on Monday there are "probable mass graves" yet to be investigated, possibly as many as 100, in a town where hundreds of bodies have already been found, and it urged Tripoli to keep searching. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika, Weltweit
04.07.2022, Médecins Sans Frontières
One year of operations in the Central Mediterranean haspassed by, this time with the Geo Barents - Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)'s vessel - rescuing 3,138 people and conducting 6,536 medical consultations before disembarking in a place of safety in Europe. Following last week’s tragic rescue, the sad reality at the Southern European border has not changed: the normalization of policies of deterrence and non-assistance at sea, as well as the dismantling of the search and rescue (SAR) system in favor of forced returns, continue to generate human suffering and loss of life. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europäische Union, Europa
"In Greece, pushbacks at the sea and land borders have become a de facto daily practice," said UN Special Rapporteur Felipe González Morales. Between 2020 and 2021, at least 17,000 people are believed to have been forcibly returned to Turkey, according to a United Nations report published at the end of April. Pushbacks, as well as extortion and disenfranchisement of refugees on the part of the Greek authorities, violate international law and EU values. But there are no consequences. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europa
04.07.2022, InfoMigrants
Close to 50,000 people who were granted refugee protection in Greece have applied for asylum in Germany, Germany's interior ministry said. Out of 8,000 applications processed so far, nine in ten have reportedly been approved. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Deutschland, Europäische Union, Europa
03.07.2022, Le Monde
The Greek sea rescuer Iasonas Apostolopoulos, who has been tirelessly rescuing migrants from the Aegean and the Mediterranean sea since 2015, is constantly exposed to right-wing extremist agitation in social media and is also a thorn in the side of the conservative Greek government. Just in mid-May, Apostolopoulos denounced the practices of the Greek authorities in the European Parliament, which are contrary to international law. Here, migrants are denied the right to apply for asylum and instead are forcibly sent back to Turkey. read more
Language(s): Französisch / Français Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europa
03.07.2022, The Guardian
The Home Office is planning a second deportation flight to Rwanda although the rightfulness of the procedure is not yet decided. The hearing at the High Court on examining the government´s plan will start on July 19th. An interim injunction of the European Court of Justice stopped the first deportation flight in mid-June. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Großbritannien, Afrika
03.07.2022, Süddeutsche Zeitung
The refugee camp on the island is almost full. If more people continue to arrive from Africa, populists and post-fascists would have their theme again. What this has to do with Putin's war. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Osteuropa, Nordafrika, Afrika
03.07.2022, taz
In Libya, citizens protest against rising prices. In Tobruk, the parliament is on fire, and armed fighting is feared in the capital Tripoli. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Nordafrika
01.07.2022, InfoMigrants
Since the beginning of the year, 4,154 Egyptian migrants have arrived on the shores of Italy. This represents a threefold increase compared to the same period last year. Confronted with an economic crisis and wide-spread repression at home, they consider leaving Egypt by boat as their only option. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Naher Osten, Europa, Afrika
01.07.2022, ICIR Nigeria
The United Kingdom government has signed a new migration agreement with Nigeria, the Home Office announced Friday. Under the agreement, both countries plan to issue emergency travel certificates or temporary passports within five days in order to speed up the deportation of migrants. read more
01.07.2022, SPIEGEL
Greece repeatedly turns back asylum seekers at its external borders in violation of the law - putting their lives in danger. EU Commissioner Johansson is now bringing a cut in funding into play. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
01.07.2022, ORF
At least three Tunisian migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea towards Italy when their boat sank off the coast of the island of Djerba. Three more people are missing. The other eleven refugees on board the boat were rescued, Italian media reported. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika
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