Author: UAI

Moria – Built to Burn

Posted on 18 September 20202 October 2020 by UAI

Unless and until we switch gear, the EU will continue to spend billions of Euros incarcerating children and their families in hellish conditions that will fuel the next conflagration.

How Covid-19 Impacted Humanitarian Action!

Posted on 11 August 20209 September 2020 by UAI

UAI welcomes the new issue of Alternatives Humanitaires/Humanitarian Alternatives which is focused on the impact of Covid-19 on humanitarian action.

Pandemic as revelation: what does it tell us about people on the move?

Posted on 9 July 202029 August 2020 by UAI

Anthropologist Alessandro Monsutti and UAI co-founder Antonio Donini note that the pandemic seems to have produced new regimes of “unfreedom”.

EU-Libya collaboration in mass interceptions of migrants in the Central Mediterranean

Posted on 6 July 202029 August 2020 by UAI

A new report bears witness to the systematic violation of international and human rights laws in the Central Mediterranean.

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An interview with Hassan Akkad – young English language teacher and photographer, award-winning film-maker, and Syrian refugee in England

Posted on 22 June 202029 August 2020 by UAI

Hassan Akkad discusses asylum and migration in the UK, the COVID19 impact on humanitarian crises, and his journey to safety from Syria.

In Yemen, a deadly concoction of arms sales, conflict and Covid-19 – The Interpreter

Posted on 12 June 202029 August 2020 by UAI

This short read highlights various contradictions in UN Security Council decision-making on Yemen where the spread of Covid-19 continues unimpeded.

Covid-19 – Notes on migrants, an ICMHD health policy contribution

Posted on 15 May 202030 August 2020 by UAI

Like all viral infections, Covid-19 is particularly dangerous for people in vulnerable settings including uprooted people like refugees and asylum seekers.

Update UK – May 2020

Posted on 3 May 20204 May 2020 by UAI

Ms Mona Mustapha Mahmoud It is with profound sadness that UAI in the UK announces the death, on 11 April

Could COVID-19 Upend International Asylum Norms?

Posted on 27 April 202030 August 2020 by UAI

States should not be allowed to use Covid-19 emergency policies as a pretext to further weaken freedom of movement and asylum and protection systems.

Where is humanity? The human cost of detaining asylum-seekers

Posted on 20 April 202021 April 2020 by UAI

An interview with Avril Loveless, Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (GDWG) UAI: Avril, could you tell us what you do at