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27.02.2023, Infomigrants
Fearing a wave of refugees in the spring following the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, Greece has decided to strengthen its border controls. The Greek Minister of Migration has confirmed that the construction of the wall separating the country from its Turkish neighbor will continue. read more
Language(s): Französisch / Français Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
27.02.2023, The Guardian
A Sudanese asylum seeker is planning a legal challenge to a new Home Office questionnaire that is being circulated to 12,000 asylum seekers to speed up their claims. The questionnaire will be given to asylum seekers instead of face to face interviews and will contain more than 50 complex questions in English. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Großbritannien
27.02.2023, Info Migrants
The Geo Barents ship is under administrative detention for 20 days and will be fined 10 thousand euros, Italian authorities told Doctors Without Borders on February 23, the same day the controversial decree on private sea rescue operations became law. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Europäische Union
Rescuers have recovered two more bodies from the sea after a wooden sailing boat believed to be carrying refugees crashed into rocks off the coast of Italy’s Calabria region, taking the death toll to 62. read more
26.02.2023, AP news
At least 22 Syrian migrants detained for more than five months in Libya began a hunger strike Monday to demand their release, a Libyan rights group said. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika
26.02.2023, ANSA
Tragic migrant shipwreck in Cutro (Crotone): more than 100 dead feared. There is still no reliable number of people who were on board. According to some survivors, there were about 180. For others many more, at least 250. At the moment 80 people have been recovered alive and 45 bodies have been found along the coast of Steccato di Cutro. Among the victims were many children and women. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Italien / Malta
24.02.2023, FAZ
The government of Giorgia Meloni has announced that it will tighten its policy against private sea rescuers. So far, this has been mostly rhetoric. Now it is blocking the Geo Barents and imposing a fine. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta
23.02.2023, il Post
NGO accused of violating new code of conduct for sea rescues: ship was about to leave on Friday for a new mission read more
23.02.2023, SWI
Italy's parliament on Thursday passed into law a government decree establishing a code of conduct for migrant charity ships, despite criticism from the United Nations and humanitarian groups that it will imperil lives. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta
23.02.2023, Info Migrants
The second European Conference on Border Management will take place in Athens, Greece, on February 23-24, as announced by the Greek Ministry of Migration and Asylum. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
The campaign "I Was a Foreigner", promoted by various associations operating in the sector of protection and assistance to migrants, sent a letter on February 21 to Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, asking for "immediate intervention with measures to finally complete the regularization procedures, after nearly three years since it was approved." read more
Fast-track temporary visas for survivors of the Syrian-Turkish earthquakes are available only to Turkish nationals, despite widespread reports that Syrians were also eligible under new special procedures. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Naher Osten, Deutschland
23.02.2023, AP news
Thursday morning a search and rescue operation was underway off the coast of an eastern Greek island. Four people on the move were missing after a boat attempted to reach Greece from Turkey. Two Greek guard patrol boats and one vessel from the European border patrol agency Frontex have been involved in the search. read more
Nearly one million asylum claims were lodged in the EU, Switzerland and Norway last year, the most since 2016. Syrians and Afghans remained the main applicants, while claims from Turkish nationals more than doubled. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union
23.02.2023, Verfassungsblog
From December 2022 and January 2023 Sweden and Danemark will consider all women and girls from Afghanistan eligible to refugee status. In fact, the Taliban's regime in Afghanistan has made their lives so difficult that its actions are to be considered as persecution based on gender. However, the two Scandinavian countries have a legacy of very restrictive policies towards refugee rights. read more
23.02.2023, Collective Aid and Medical Volunteers International
Observations and Trends in Pushbacks, Border Violence, and Conditions in Northern Serbia from "Collective Aid" and "Medical Volunteers International".In the last two months, there has been a large amount of police repression and violent evictions happening in Northern Serbia. This report also concentrate on further analysis of violence and procedures associated with pushbacks from Hungary to Serbia. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten
22.02.2023, Africanews
On Tuesday President Kais Saied held a hateful speech against people on the move from Sub-Saharan Africa, accusing them of "violence, crimes and unacceptable acts". He called for urgent measures against the "illegal migration", even though, according to international law, it is not illegal to enter in a country as a refugee. read more
22.02.2023, taz
In a speech to Tunisia's National Security Council on Tuesday, President Kais Saied described migrants living in the country as part of an international conspiracy against Tunisia. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Nordafrika
22.02.2023, The Guardian
The Home Office in the UK is planning to send out questionnaires to asylum seekers instead of conducting official interviews. The eleven page document will include a list of 50 complicated questions to which people on the move will have to reply in English. Moreover, the failure to return the document within 20 working days would mean that an individual's asylum claim could be withdrawn. read more
More than 60,000 Somali refugees have fled to Ethiopia after an escalation in fighting in the town of Las Anod, in the Sool region, where tensions between local people and the governing Somaliland authorities have been building for weeks. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Afrika
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