The power of people is stronger than politicians; unite for refugee rights
Mostafa Azimitabar denounces the Australian government’s efforts to confiscate the phones of detaineed refugees as cruel attempts to silence and isolate.
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UAI in the UK – October 2020 Newsletter
This 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.
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Disingenuous, dishonest and dangerous: the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
Jeff Crisp analyses some of the weaknesses and limitations of the European Union’s recent “Pact on Migration and Asylum” in his latest blog post.
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âCatastrophe for human rightsâ as Greece steps up refugee âpushbacks’
Human rights groups condemn practice as evidence reviewed by the Guardian reveals systemic denial of entry to asylum seekers.
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Moria â Built to Burn
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.
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Lebanon, where the Humanitarian Vultures Descended
Khaled Mansour describes how chaos in Lebanon will result in a rush for humanitarian funding, obfuscating the political responsibility for the crisis.
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Putting the incarceration business on trial : The dehumanization of racist policies and for-profit prisons
Raoul Walawalker pleads to bring the prison-industrial complex and growth of for-profit migrant detention centres to an end.
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When Aid Workers Serve the Powerful!
Seventeen years ago, Khaled Mansour survived a terrorist attack. On World Humanitarian Day, he warns of the security impact of humanitarian politicization.
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How Covid-19 Impacted Humanitarian Action!
UAI welcomes the new issue of Alternatives Humanitaires/Humanitarian Alternatives which is focused on the impact of Covid-19 on humanitarian action.
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Pandemic as revelation: what does it tell us about people on the move?
Anthropologist Alessandro Monsutti and UAI co-founder Antonio Donini note that the pandemic seems to have produced new regimes of âunfreedomâ.
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