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WFP wins the Nobel! Is this an opportunity to enhance protection?

Posted on 20 October 202020 October 2020 by Celestine Schorlemer

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.

Disingenuous, dishonest and dangerous: the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum

Posted on 2 October 20205 October 2020 by Celestine Schorlemer

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.

‘Catastrophe for human rights’ as Greece steps up refugee ‘pushbacks’

Posted on 29 September 20202 October 2020 by Celestine Schorlemer

Human rights groups condemn practice as evidence reviewed by the Guardian reveals systemic denial of entry to asylum seekers.

Putting the incarceration business on trial : The dehumanization of racist policies and for-profit prisons

Posted on 29 August 202029 August 2020 by Celestine Schorlemer

Raoul Walawalker pleads to bring the prison-industrial complex and growth of for-profit migrant detention centres to an end.

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”.

The end of asylum?

Posted on 2 July 202029 August 2020 by Jeff Crisp

In memory of Mona Mahmoud, Jeff Crisp addresses the erosion of the global right to asylum in the context of the measures against the COVID19 pandemic.

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.