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Mostafa Azimitabar denounces the Australian government’s efforts to confiscate the phones of detaineed refugees as cruel attempts to silence and isolate.
Continue readingMostafa Azimitabar denounces the Australian government’s efforts to confiscate the phones of detaineed refugees as cruel attempts to silence and isolate.
Continue readingThis month we have links to 3 blogs highlighting recent events. Two concern recent disasters – the explosion in the port of Beirut and the fire at the Moria camp on Lesbos, while the last blog is an appraisal of the recently published EU Asylum & Migration Pact.
Continue readingJeff Crisp analyses some of the weaknesses and limitations of the European Union’s recent “Pact on Migration and Asylum” in his latest blog post.
Continue readingHuman rights groups condemn practice as evidence reviewed by the Guardian reveals systemic denial of entry to asylum seekers.
Continue readingUnless 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.
Continue readingKhaled Mansour describes how chaos in Lebanon will result in a rush for humanitarian funding, obfuscating the political responsibility for the crisis.
Continue readingRaoul Walawalker pleads to bring the prison-industrial complex and growth of for-profit migrant detention centres to an end.
Continue readingSeventeen years ago, Khaled Mansour survived a terrorist attack. On World Humanitarian Day, he warns of the security impact of humanitarian politicization.
Continue readingUAI welcomes the new issue of Alternatives Humanitaires/Humanitarian Alternatives which is focused on the impact of Covid-19 on humanitarian action.
Continue readingAnthropologist Alessandro Monsutti and UAI co-founder Antonio Donini note that the pandemic seems to have produced new regimes of âunfreedomâ.
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