„Making money from EU’s migration policies in Libya“

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Al Jazeera | 02.01.2018

by Martin Lemberg-Pedersen

In recent weeks, the unfolding tragedy of refugees stuck in the Libyan migration system has caught the eye of the European public. The conditions they face are terrible: beatings, torture, systematic rape, slave trade and killings.

European leaders have tried to dodge responsibility and have blamed this humanitarian disaster on smugglers, the competing Tripoli and Tobruk governments, and the many militias vying for a place in the country’s power vacuum.

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„18 refugees, 18 countries – and their hopes for 2018“

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The Guardian | 01.01.2018

There are now more refugees and IDPs than Brits or Californians. As a new year dawns, what are their hopes and fears?

by Mark Rice-Oxley and reporters from the Guardian, El País, Der Spiegel and Le Monde

More than 65 million people are currently displaced from their homes – almost one in every 100 human beings. If refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) were a nation they would be the 21st biggest on earth.

As a new year dawns we asked 18 refugees from 18 countries that between them produce almost 90% of the world’s refugees and displaced people what they hope for in 2018. […]

„Fewer Refugees and Migrants Arrive in Europe by Boat in 2017“

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Refugees Deeply | 02.01.2018

The number of refugees and migrants arriving in Europe by boat declined in 2017, as did the number of people dying en route.

Some 119,000 people took boats to Italy from North Africa last year, compared to 181,000 a year earlier, after controversial Italian deals in Libya caused boat numbers to drop rapidly over the summer.

According to the U.N., around 2,800 people drowned on their way to Italy in 2017, down from 4,400 a year earlier. Weiterlesen »