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The European Union (EU) is currently experiencing a migration flux reflecting 2016 levels, recording 330,000 new arrivals last year with no sign of decline. Meanwhile, EU countries have continuously...
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Greece wants to escalate the return of migrants to Turkey dramatically in the coming weeks under a European Union deal with Ankara, according to the Greek migration minister Panos...
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The random crackdown and the sexualised way in which it occurs, is intended to threaten the volunteers - predominantly women.
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On Tuesday, the European Union gave Greece two weeks to "tighten its borders" and finalise a plan for the spending of the €700 million allocated in response to the...
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In the wake of the recent influx of refugees, the Danish government has been peddling right-wing propaganda, calling refugees '"welfare-shoppers" or potential terror threats in order to instil xenophobia...
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At dawn today, the first 136 people, mainly Pakistanis, were deported to Turkey from Lesvos in Greece. To the sound of volunteers, aid workers and activists shouting about the...
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Today at Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, the asylum system is on its knees; deportations have halted all processes of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO),...
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The situation in Idomeni in Greece is worsening by the hour as desperation mounts over inhumane European border policies. People are fighting amongst themselves and against the police. Some...
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Refugees in Moria on the island of Lesvos are now being relocated to mainland Greece in preparation for their deportation, having been stuck for weeks since the closure of...
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I am talking to Muhammad* from Iraq; a father of two, he lost a third child on the way to Lesbos on board a dangerous rubber dinghy. He is...
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Depending on the situation at the border with Macedonia, there could soon be thousands of people stranded on the Greek island of Lesvos. It was chaos in August and...
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Danish politics is facing potentially radical changes. Not only has Denmark ruined its humanitarian socialist image of welfare and equality, but it has also seen numerous prominent politicians moving...
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The daily updates I receive from volunteers working in Calais and on the Greek islands of Lesvos and Chios are heart-breaking. As I sat to write this, a volunteer...
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The condition of migrants and refugees in Britain was debated critically at an evening seminar at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) last week. The British...
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The public debates on Denmark's newly-approved asylum policies are red hot. One of the new economic moves to curb asylum "pressure" is a controversial plan to strip refugees of...
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The Lebanese people are facing testing times, struggling with constant threats from terror groups and suffering attacks from Daesh/ISIS, some of which were experienced last week in the Hezbollah...
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the West bankWorking in Palestine Signe Smidt discovered during her runs, how movement was restricted by the wall and several check-points, a symptom of the country's political stalemate. This...
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Since 2010, when M landed in England after a long and life-threatening journey from Palestine, he has been passed around in the legal arena. The responsibility for his situation...
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At the entrance to the "Jungle" refugee camp in Calais on Monday morning, around 400 people had "over-spilled" the borders of their designated plot of "no man's land" and...
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The UK has more than 30,000 migrants and asylum-seekers who are currently being detained indefinitely whilst their immigration status is resolved. This can take months or even years, leaving...
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Last Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people all over Europe gathered outside their respective parliaments to demand policies that reflected the people's solidarity with Syrian refugees. After four years...
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Tens of thousands of protesters all over the world were on the streets at the weekend in support of the people of Lebanon and their anti-government demonstrations. From London...
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Tens of thousands of protesters have joined the "You Stink" campaign to push the Lebanese government to take action to solve a towering waste management problem. The grievances are...
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In times when Europeans are experiencing a political shift to the right, immigrants are haunted by legacies of neo-imperial, economic exploitation as well as the long-term effects of the...
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An important event took place at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) on Wednesday. As people sat wiping their tears, Norway's Dr Mads Gilbert took us...
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A new report from the investigative journalism team at DanWatch gives more disturbing evidence of Danish businesses helping to keep the wheels of Israel's military occupation of Palestine turning....
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Last Thursday, one of Denmark's biggest newspapers, Politiken, published an article which described the occupied Palestinian territories as part of Israel. Despite the picturesque nomenclature on the Dead Sea...
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"Beyond Sunnis and Shiites, understanding the violent reconfiguration of citizen, sect, tribe and states in the Arab World", held on 21 January 2015 at the Mosaic Rooms, London. A...
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Thousands of Syrian refugees are risking their lives to enterEurope as asylum seekers, but what awaits them are a range ofinformal and inadequate procedures, some of which only have...
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The steps you have to climb to reach the Syrian women's workshop are narrow and crammed with people politely edging their way around each other. Women and children flock...
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ISIS delivered a video of the captured Lebanese soldiers to Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam today, following last week's bloody clashes in the Lebanese border town Arsal. Militants of...
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Christopher Gunness is the public face of UNRWA, the UN agency dedicated to the plight of Palestinian refugees. He talked to MEMO about the innocent thousands who have been...