Refugee NGOs attack EU shipwreck ‘double standard’ after Bayesian effort
Organisations who try to save lives in Mediterranean say Sicily response showed what can be done The tremendous resources and global attention dedicated to the...
Category : Refugees
Spanish police boat appears to run over dinghy carrying four people
Calls for inquiry as video appears to show Guardia Civil boat knocking at least one person out of dinghy bound for Spain Human rights campaigners...
Two people die attempting to cross Channel in dinghy
Fifty-three people were rescued by helicopter on Sunday morning, French authorities have said Two people have died attempting to cross the Channel in a dinghy,...
UK ‘stop the boats’ policy raising risk of deadly crushes on dinghies, NGOs say
Groups say people are dying of crushing and suffocation as ever-growing numbers are packed into fewer vessels Refugees are being crammed into boats on French...
EU states ‘not properly investigating’ reports of rights violations at borders
Fundamental rights body warns of flawed approach to credible accounts of ill-treatment and loss of life Authorities in EU member states are not doing enough...
Asylum seekers stuck in limbo as Cyprus rebuffs calls to act
Fifty-three asylum seekers ‘pushed back’ into UN-patrolled buffer zone that bisects the southern European country Almost two months to the day after she became stranded...
Former factory in Dublin intended to house asylum seekers is set on fire
Ex-Crown Paints building in Coolock had been the scene of a large protest A disused factory in Dublin earmarked to house asylum seekers has been...
Four people drown trying to cross Channel near Boulogne-sur-Mer
At least 56 people survive after early morning rescue involving French coastguard, navy boat and helicopter Four people died overnight trying to cross the Channel...
EU-funded Egyptian forces ‘rounding up and deporting Sudanese refugees’
Egypt forcibly returned 800 Sudanese detainees in first three months of this year, Amnesty International reports The Egyptian authorities have used EU-funded security forces in...
‘This is cleansing’: Dublin sends in police and buses to dismantle tent city
Shocked people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria herded on to coaches as 200 tents removed and streets cleaned The convoy arrived just after sunrise: a stream...
