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The overcrowded facility was housing nearly 13,000 people.
ATHENS — Thousands of refugees and migrants were forced to flee the overcrowded Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos after multiple fires erupted overnight and razed much of the site.
The fires broke out shortly after midnight in (...)
COVID-19-related lockdown measures have had an impact on the lives of everyone around the world and generated increasing levels of stress and anxiety for many of us. However, the restriction of movement imposed in places like Moria and Vathy, on the Greek islands, have proven to be toxic for (...)
The poet and novelist has had a turbulent lockdown, with two relatives lost to Covid-19 and George Floyd’s death bringing back memories of his cousin, Mikey Powell, who was killed by the police in 2003
It is 42 years since Benjamin Zephaniah wrote the poem Dis Policeman Keeps on Kicking Me To (...)
For years if a German wanted to discuss racism, people looked at you as if you were a Nazi, but now there’s a new openness
When I was growing up there was no racism in Germany. In the 1980s every child learned at school that race was a construct that fascists had used to justify segregating and killing people. So if race didn’t exist, it naturally followed that racism didn’t exist either. If you wanted to talk about it people looked at you as if you were the Nazi.
All this is changing. It is (...)
Experts condemn move to aerial surveillance as an abrogation of ‘responsibility to save lives’
Amid the panicked shouting from the water and the smell of petrol from the sinking dinghy, the noise of an approaching engine briefly raises hope. Dozens of people fighting for their lives in the (...)
A surge in complaints has led to more guarantees for the minors, but there is renewed political support for sending them back
Bilal was at school, having breakfast with his friends right before the start of morning classes, when four plainclothes police officers showed up and took him away in (...)
The funding campaign for detained sea captain Carola Rackete, who rescued 53 migrants and docked forcefully in Italy.
A crowdfunding effort for detained sea captain Carola Rackete – backed by two of Germany’s top television celebrities – raised €500,000 ($569,000) within hours of its launch. (...)
Sea-Watch captain plans disembarking at Lampedusa island after two-week standoff
After a two-week stand-off with Italian authorities a ship carrying 42 migrants has reached the Sicilian island of Lampedusa in defiance of a ban by the country’s hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini. (...)
Pia Klemp, one of the Iuventa 10, says it is ‘ridiculous’ that she could face jail
A captain of a search-and-rescue ship potentially facing up to 20 years in jail in connection with her role in saving 6,000 people from drowning in the Mediterranean has accused the EU of letting people die and (...)
Member states should face punitive action over deaths in Mediterranean, say lawyers
The EU and member states should be prosecuted for the deaths of thousands of migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean fleeing Libya, according to a detailed legal submission to the international criminal court (...)
Migration into Europe is far down from its height in 2015, but many migrants still risk everything to cross into Spain via Morocco, by crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. With EU aid, Morocco has made strides in stemming the flow.
Spain’s elections might be over, but the topic of migration (...)
Salvini’s planned decree ‘a declaration of war against NGOs saving lives at sea’, aid groups say
Italy’s government is planning to issue a decree that would mean NGO rescue boats would be fined up to €5,500 (£4,760) for each migrant they disembark on to Italian soil.
Aid groups said the planned (...)
Over 500,000 people cannot vote at the upcoming general election even though they have lived in the country all their lives.
Safia El Aaddam was born in the northeastern Spanish city of Tarragona. Although the 23-year-old is politically active, she cannot vote in the general election on April (...)
According to a study by the International Organization for Migration, Morocco is the country where immigrants suffer the most.
The dangers of the migration route to Spain are not limited to the danger of crossing the Strait of Gibraltar or the western Mediterranean in unstable boats. The (...)
As Ukraine waits for the first steps of its new president, millions of its citizens have moved across the border.
When the small business run by Kristina Melnytska’s father began to struggle in 2014 he did what hundreds of thousands of other Ukrainians were doing and moved his family to Poland. (...)
A vessel operated by an NGO is trying to deliver humanitarian relief to Lesbos, but Spanish authorities say it needs a new permit despite having one from Portugal.
A Basque fishing vessel converted into a migrant rescue boat called the Aita Mariis having problems going to the Greek island of (...)
Spectators visiting the famous Aalst carnival in Belgium were shocked to find the depiction of orthodox Jews with unflattering expressions standing amongst sacks of money, paraded through the town.
The antisemitic float was paraded through the annual carnival parade in Aalst. The orthodox Jews (...)
“This is not a retreat. We are under enormous migratory pressure,” says an Interior Ministry source
In June of last year, a newly formed government in Spain sought to give the world a lesson by welcoming the Aquarius, a humanitarian rescue ship with 629 migrants aboard that had been refused (...)
The European country is isolating and excluding asylum seekers until they disappear from society completely.
hink of Denmark and you probably conjure up a mix of mid-century design, hygge, and people riding bikes. But as viewers of the noir TV series The Bridge know, it’s also a country marred (...)
Médecins Sans Frontières says ‘smear campaign’ by European governments hampered work in Mediterranean
Search and rescue ship Aquarius, which has saved tens of thousands of migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean, has ended its operations, said Médecins Sans Frontières, the charity that runs the (...)
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