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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
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union
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
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, 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
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, 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
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
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
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika
01.03.2022, InfoMigrants
The Greek coast guard said that six bodies of migrants were discovered on the north-eastern coast of Lesbos on Tuesday. There were no signs of a shipwreck. Prior to Tuesday's discovery, at least four people are reported to have died or gone missing in the Eastern Mediterranean since the beginning of the year, according to the IOM's Missing Migrants Project. read more
28.02.2022, Der Tagesspiegel
Wie kann man spenden? Wo können sich Freiwillige melden? Wer und was wird gebraucht? Ein Überblick. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German
28.02.2022, Napoli Today
Le persone che si trovano attualmente al confine tra Ucraina e Polonia probabilmente non vengono trattate tutte allo stesso modo: "devono passare prima i bianchi, prima gli ucraini". A denunciarlo sui social è Giuliano Granato, il portavoce nazionale di Potere al Popolo che condivide sulla sua pagina Instagram un video che mostrerebbe il fermo, al confine, di alcuni migranti africani. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Italien / Malta
28.02.2022, Associated Press
They file into neighboring countries by the hundreds of thousands — refugees from Ukraine clutching children in one arm, belongings in the other. And they’re being heartily welcomed, by leaders of countries like Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania. But while the hospitality has been applauded, it has also highlighted stark differences in treatment given to migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa, particularly Syrians who came in 2015. read more
27.02.2022, The Civil Fleet
Refugees stuck in Libya have hit out at European governments’ treatment of non-white refugees following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union, Europa
27.02.2022, Irish Times
African students trapped in Ukraine say they face extra challenges as they try to escape the war, including being blocked from getting off trains or barred from crossing borders to neighbouring countries. Roughly 20 per cent of Ukraine’s foreign students are African, including 4,000 Nigerians. African activists and students have been raising awareness of their plight through the Twitter hashtag #AfricansInUkraine, as well as creating group chats on WhatsApp and Telegram to organise assistance. read more
27.02.2022, Euractiv
While a proposal to activate the 2001 Temporary Protection Directive for Ukrainians fleeing the country was “broadly welcomed” by the ministers during their extraordinary meeting on Sunday (27 February), a formal decision will only be made on Thursday, EU Home Affairs and Migration Commissioner Ylva Johansson said after the talks. Once activated, the directive would stay in force for one year, unless it is prolonged, and would allow Ukrainians to take immediate, temporary refuge in the EU without going through a standard asylum process. Beyond the question of refugees’ entry into EU territory, it also remains unclear how they will be distributed among member states. read more
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