You may have seen that Priti Patel has been dis-invited to an upcoming summit of European Ministers this weekend to discuss the tragedy in the Channel.
As the Home Secretary won’t be meeting with European Ministers to discuss policy, it’s more important than ever that the Government hears our calls for safe routes now loud and clear.
Wow. Last week, hundreds of you took to the streets and went into your communities to deliver the message loud and clear: we demand no borders in the NHS.
Together we are shifting the racist and nationalist tide by refusing to allow our healthcare service to become a tool of hostile immigration enforcement. We are fighting to ensure it stays true to its founding principles: that healthcare should be available to all who need it, regardless of where you’re from or your ability to pay.
25 June 2021 — Safe Passage
Today, we – the Young Leaders of Safe Passage, Hummingbird and KRAN – have published our report “Safe Routes from the Perspective of Young Refugees: Our response to the New Plan for Immigration.”
2 JUNE 2021 — MIGRANTS ORGANISE
Earlier this year we reached out to you, to support our legal challenge against the Home Office.
We had significant concerns about the Home Office’s failure to provide EU citizens living in the UK with an accessible and humane process for settling here after Brexit.
16 October 2020 — Migrants Organise
This weekend, under the banner of ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders’, groups in more than 20 locations across the country joined us to take action to demand an end to the Hostile Environment. Continue reading
30 June 2020 — Statewatch
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London, 29 June 2020 – The civil liberties organisation Statewatch has today delivered an open letter [1] with hundreds of signatories to Mr Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of International Maritime Organization (IMO), calling on him to revoke the Libyan maritime search and rescue (SAR) zone [2] in order to prevent the so-called Libyan Coast Guard undertaking ‘pull-backs’ of migrants to Libya, where they face violence, abuse and mistreatment.
12 June 2020 — Statewatch
COVID-19 has become another touchstone for today’s deeply entrenched politics of militarised borders and anti-migrant racism. Leaders like Trump and Orban have blamed the virus on foreigners and to claim justification for their racist politics. But they have also been used European Union Member States of all political tendencies have used the crisis to close off ports to rescue ships, making the Mediterranean even more deadly for refugees. The ‘necropolitics’ of border militarization that justifies systemic crimes against humanity has become tragically hegemonic.
26 November 2018 — Statewatch
ANALYSES
1. Analysis: Decriminalising solidarity by promoting the regularisation of migrants by Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo (Osservatorio Solidarieta Carta di Milano
2. Viewpoint: Morocco: Wherever EU immigration policy rears its ugly head, violence and abuses follow by Yasha Maccanico
24 October 2016 — OurNHS
What kind of country treats migrants like this?
Image: Flickr/SMA
As the Calais “jungle” migrant camp closes today, high profile controversy over the UK’s external borders are only one side of the story.
Three years have passed since Theresa May, then home secretary, committed to creating a “hostile environment” for so-called “illegal” migrants in the UK. Since then the UK has reinforced and multiplied its inland borders, making border guards of teachers, landlords, and healthcare workers.
24 June 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
Accessible also as a pdf file at: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/jun/sw-med-crisis-23-jun-15.pdf
Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean
Key Analysis and Documents
3 March 2014 — — 50.50
The UK’s second largest immigration detention centre is about to open in Weymouth. Jennifer Allsopp reports on local responses to the immanent presence of hundreds of foreigners, locked up off the coast of this small and friendly town.
4 January 2014 — Our NHS
Forget the inaccurate, hate-filled xenophobia – here’s why we should treat migrants without extra charge
28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (17/13)
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EU “SEARCH & RESCUE
9 July 2013 — WSWS
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has revealed plans that would compel general practitioners (GPs) to refuse to treat “ineligible” immigrants on the National Health Service (NHS) unless the immigrants have paid a £200 annual charge.
013 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. EU: Millions of euros for new police databases in West Africa
2. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council: 7-8 March 2013
3. EU: EUROPEAN INVESTIGATION ORDER (EIO): Nine MSs who proposed the EIO lobby the Council of the European Union for it to be quickly adopted
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29 August 2012 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
PCHR Condemns Continued Israeli Violations against Palestinian Fishermen in the Gaza Strip
IMEMC – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns Israel’s continued violations against Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip, and expresses concern about the escalation of these violations. On Tuesday morning, 28 August 2012, 2 Palestinian fishermen were arrested and a Palestinian fishing boat was heavily damaged in 2 separate incidents in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. …
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Established in 2006 by Regulation 2004/2007, Frontex is the European Agency for the Management of the External Borders of the European Union. It coordinates and organises with Member States high-tech border control operations at sea, land and air external borders of the EU, and carries out joint return flights of irregular migrants. Its mandate was revised in 2011. Since its inception, Frontex has been criticised for its lack of transparency and accountability.
3 March, 2012 — RT
A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to eat the old Libyan flag.
24 August 2011 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org
23 August 2011 — Morning Star
Fierce fighting erupted across Tripoli today hours after Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s son Saif al-Islam popped up to rally supporters and rubbish rebel claims he had been captured.
The New Dark Age 