This month’s Newsletter includes reaction to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme, a blog on refugee rights in Australia and news of a campaign by Humanity and Inclusion.
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Norah Niland discusses the relationship between food and conflict in the context of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the World Food Programme.
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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.
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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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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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Human rights groups condemn practice as evidence reviewed by the Guardian reveals systemic denial of entry to asylum seekers.
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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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In a new commentary, Hugo Slim argues that being neutral in a conflict setting is not necessary to be âa good humanitarianâ. Â
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After six unremitting years of armed conflict, Yemen is described as âa pandemic of impunity in a tortured landâ in a new report by a group of UN experts.
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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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