Statewatch News Online, 30 January 2018 (01/18)
30 January 2018 — Statewatch News
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1. Human rights violations at Spain’s southern border: steps towards restoring legality
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IRR News (1 – 14 December 2017)
14 December 2017 — IRR
Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice
This has been a horrendous year for deaths of migrants, asylum seekers and foreign nationals across Europe, whether it be in the Mediterranean, at land borders, during the deportation process, in prisons, immigration removal centres or inadequately funded reception centres. In the final series of articles, asylum campaigner John Grayson throws a spotlight on the deaths of migrants, including suicides, in direct provision hostels in Ireland. A number of other deaths, including that of Polish national Michael Netyks in Altcourse prison in Merseyside, are recorded in our regular calendar of racism and resistance, a fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns.
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IRR News (3 – 16 November 2017)
18 November 2017 — Institute of Race Relations
Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice
No one should be stigmatised, harassed or prosecuted for saving lives at sea or assisting weary and displaced people at a border. This week, the IRR launches its new report Humanitarianism: the unacceptable face of solidarity which charts the hostile political and legal environment facing humanitarian actors who seek to protect life at Europe’s land and sea borders. On 4 December, we will be discussing the report with colleagues from Watch The Med and Médecins Sans Frontières. We invite you to join us for this launch event – but please note that registration for this meeting is essential, as space is limited.
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Bicycle Hoax Highlights Soulless Cycle
5 October 2017 — YesLab
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 5, 2017Belgian collective, in cahoots with refugee groups and the Yes Lab, hits hard at European policy towards refugees, false market solutions, assholes
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Statewatch News Online, 11 July 2017 (08/17)
11 July 2017 — Statewatch
SPECIAL: The European Commission asked Italy to draw up a “Code of Conduct” for NGOs carrying out search and rescue in the Mediterranean:
See full-text of:Code of Conduct for NGOs involved in migrant’s rescue operation at sea (pdf)
All NGOs operating in the Med are required to sign and obey the Code:
“Failure to sign this Code of Conduct or failure to comply with its obligations may result in the refusal by the Italian State to authorize the access to national ports, subject to compliance with the existing international conventions.”
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Audio: Vijay Prashad on Displaced People
7 July 2017 — FAIR
(cc photo: Ggia)
This week on CounterSpin: AP reports hundreds of civilians fleeing Mosul’s Old City, climbing over rubble as explosions rock the streets, as government forces battle the Islamic State. Cameroonian officials deny UN reports they’ve driven out at least 5,000 Nigerian refugees in recent weeks, rounding them up in trucks, often separating parents and children, taking them back to the danger they thought they’d escaped. Suicides are up alarmingly among Myanmar refugees in a camp in Thailand. Meanwhile, Austrian defense officials say they will use armored vehicles and troops to keep refugees from crossing the border from Italy.
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Imperialist Wars And Interventions Fuel Refugee Crisis In Africa By Thomas Gaist
9 March 2017– WSWS
Large numbers of persons fleeing war and famine in sub-Saharan Africa are transiting through Libya in a desperate effort to reach Europe, UNICEF reported last week.
An estimated 80,000 refugees, including 25,000 children, left Libyan ports in an effort to cross the Mediterranean Sea and enter southern Europe last year, with 4,000 of them dying during the crossing.
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Video: Dzhangal
3 February 2017 — Autograph ABP
[I should have put this up earlier, so apologies as it closes on 11 February 2017. WB]
Gideon Mendel has created a powerful installation using objects he gathered during visits to the ‘Jungle’ refugee camp in Calais.
By focusing on items such as toothbrushes, playing cards, worn-out trainers, teargas canisters, and children’s dolls, Mendel conjures alternative portraits of the ‘Jungle’ residents that also stand in for the plight of displaced people everywhere.
Gideon’s book of photographs and writings by people who lived in the camp, Dzhangal, is out on January 28, and the exhibition runs at Autograph ABP in Shoreditch until February 11, 2016.
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Making the NHS a “hostile environment” for migrants demeans our country By Erin Dexter
24 October 2016 — OurNHS
What kind of country treats migrants like this?
Image: Flickr/SMAAs 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.
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Video: Greek Professor: Refugee Policies of European States Are State Crimes
20 August 2016 — TRNN
Aegean University Professor Stratos Georgoulas: Refugees in Greece are often forced to choose between imprisonment in camps or deportation to Turkey Continue reading this...
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