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15.12.2017, Hamburger Morgenpost
The Lampedusa tent has been standing on Steintorplatz for almost five years - approved as a permanent exploration. Now the assembly authority has decided new conditions. The refugees from Africa should always leave three of the four walls open in the winter months. For them a "further attack on the tent". read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
15.12.2017, TAZ
The humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is getting out of control, warns the UN. Hardly anyone expects an improvement. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Afrika
15.12.2017, Frankfurter Rundschau
The state of Hesse gets its own detention center. The state legislature passed a law on Friday in Wiesbaden, which creates the conditions for such a facility. "We need a separate institution in Hesse," said Astrid Wallmann, foreign policy spokeswoman for the CDU parliamentary group. So far, the country had cooperated with other states. Their institutions are busy. read more
Exactly three months after his deportation, a refugee is back in Germany. A court ruling has made it possible. Whether the young Afghan can stay is to decide an asylum procedure. read more
15.12.2017, Spiegel Online
In the dispute over the European asylum policy there was no approximation at the EU summit. "Here, the positions have not changed," said Chancellor Angela Merkel early Friday morning after hours of talks in Brussels. "However, there is a clear mandate to continue working until June next year." There is progress in protecting the EU's external borders, including through the Refugee Pact with Turkey and cooperation with Libya. However, what is needed is an "internal dimension of solidarity read more
15.12.2017, borderline-europe
Der Newsletter zur Situation in Italien behandelt aktuelle Ereignisse der vergangenen Monate. Von den Pull-Backs der "libyschen Küstenwache", über die Abkommen zwischen der EU/Italien mit Libyen, hin zur Situation der Geflüchteten in Süd- und Norditalien, verschafft dieser Newsletter einen Überblick über sowohl international als auch national relevante Themen. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europäische Union, Europa
15.12.2017, University of Oxford
In the last few months, we have all become familiar with images of migrants climbing onto colourful NGO boats that are performing search and rescue (SAR) missions at sea. In some of those pictures and videos, large grey military vessels of the Italian Navy loom in the distance without a clear purpose. In this post, I explore the role of those boats, drawing on evidence from a recent interception at sea. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europa, Afrika
14.12.2017, FFM
Turkey’s coast guard launched a dramatic rescue operation Thursday to evacuate migrants stranded on rocks in the Aegean Sea. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
14.12.2017, Reuters
The German navy has saved about 100 refugees and migrants from distress off the Libyan coast. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Nordafrika
14.12.2017, Spiegel Online
Five refugees have died in a dramatic rescue operation in the Mediterranean. Co-responsibility should be Libyan helpers who had been trained by the European Union. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europäische Union
14.12.2017, The Voice of Zambia
The number of refugees fleeing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and being hosted at the Kenani Transit Centre in the north of Zambia has now passed the 10,000 mark since August this year. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Afrika
14.12.2017, IPS
“European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions in Libya,” Amnesty International charged in the wake of global outrage over the sale of migrants in Libya. In its new report, ‘Libya’s dark web of collusion’, Amnesty International (AI) details how European governments are actively supporting a sophisticated system of abuse and exploitation of refugees and migrants by the Libyan Coast Guard, detention authorities and smugglers in order to prevent people from crossing the Mediterranean. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika
14.12.2017, Agence de Presse Africaine
The European Commission on Wednesday announced 13 new activities worth € 174.4 million under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, meant to support refugees and host communities in the Horn of Africa region. read more
14.12.2017, Leipziger Volkszeitung
Once again rejected asylum seekers from Tunisia have been deported from Leipzig / Halle Airport to their home country. On board the machine, which took off on Wednesday afternoon towards Enfidha in the northwest of the North African country, were 25 Tunisians. read more
14.12.2017, Pro Asyl
Pressemitteilung - Heute 12:30 Uhr wird der afghanische Flüchtling Hasmatulla F. nach Deutschland zurückkehren. Er wurde am 14. September 2017 von Tübingen aus rechtswidrig nach Bulgarien abgeschoben. Dort erhielt er kein Asylverfahren, sondern wurde in einem Abschiebegefängnis inhaftiert und unter Schlägen dazu gezwungen, sich mit einer „freiwilligen Ausreise“ einverstanden zu erklären. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Naher Osten, Deutschland
13.12.2017, Süddeutsche Zeitung
The German Association of Cities wants closed facilities for the intensive offenders among the young refugees. They are hardly to integrate through other social offers. read more
13.12.2017, Domradio
According to a report by the aid organization Oxfam, there are not enough accommodations for unaccompanied refugee children on the Greek islands. More than 2,000 are currently on waiting lists, said the organization on Wednesday in Berlin. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
13.12.2017, EurActiv
Der EU-Kommissar für Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos hat die migrationspolitischen Vorschläge von EU-Ratspräsident Donald Tusk für den Ende dieser Woche anstehenden EU-Gipfel als „inakzeptabel“ und „antieuropäisch” zurückgewiesen. read more
13.12.2017, FFM-Online
New figures show that Bosnia and Herzegovina is becoming a popular transit country for refugees and migrants who are trying to enter the European Union illegally. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Osteuropa, Europäische Union
12.12.2017, Junge Wissenschaft Im Öffentlichen Recht
In 2015, Greece found itself in the middle of the big corridor of escape created by displaced people who tried to reach Northern Europe. The “hotspot approach” was one of the measures introduced by the European Commission as a model of operational support by the EU agencies to Member States facing disproportionate migratory pressure, with the aim to help them to swiftly identify, register and fingerprint migrants, and support the implementation of relocation and returns, in the context of what was called the “refugee crisis”. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union, Europa
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