„Ärzte ohne Grenzen wirft EU-Grenzschützern Gewalt gegen Kinder vor“

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Migazin | 05.10.2017

Ärzten ohne Grenzen zufolge wenden EU-Mitgliedsstaaten vorsätzlich Gewalt an, um Kinder und Jugendliche davon abzuhalten, in der EU Asyl zu suchen. Das geht aus einem aktuellen Bericht der Organisation hervor.

„Ärzte ohne Grenzen“ wirft Grenzschützern von EU-Ländern Gewalt gegen Kinder und Jugendliche an der serbischen Grenze vor. „Für Kinder und junge Menschen, die versuchen, Serbien zu verlassen, ist Gewalt allgegenwärtig“, erklärte der Landeskoordinator in Serbien, Stephane Moissaing, zu einem am Mittwoch vorgestellten Bericht seiner Organisation. „Es ist erbärmlich und skandalös, dass EU-Mitgliedsstaaten vorsätzlich Gewalt anwenden, um Kinder und Jugendliche davon abzuhalten, in der EU Asyl zu suchen.“

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The Central Mediterranean: European Priorities, Libyan Realities

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News Deeply | October 2017

This issue is freely available as both a PDF & eBook download.

by Daniel Howden

Prologue

August 14 began calmly for Riccardo Gatti. On the first morning of a new search and rescue mission in the central Mediterranean, the former yachtsman turned activist walked the grayed wooden deck of the Golfo Azzurro, a trawler that has been stripped of its bulky fishing equipment to make space for life jackets and water bottles.

Its previous mission had tested everyone’s patience when several Italian ports refused to allow the vessel to dock and unload its rescued asylum seekers, a sign of the increasing political pressure on rescue charities such as Gatti’s Proactiva Open Arms. The only consolation had been that the ship’s unwanted cargo were in fact a trio of Libyan musicians who serenaded the crew as they searched for a safe port.

Now stationed 27 nautical miles off the coast of Libya, Gatti’s vessel was on standby for boats in distress. Instead they were approached by the C-Star, a vessel chartered by European anti-migrant activists. The Golfo Azzurro crew braced for a confrontation.

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Mittelmeer: Neue Route nach Sardinien

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Nachdem die libysche Route über das Mittelmeer zunehmend unsicher und gefährlich geworden ist, ist die Zahl der Migranten, die Italien von Algerien aus zu erreichen versuchen, gestiegen.

Il Fatto Quotidiano | 04.10.2017

Migranti, diminuiscono le partenze dalla Libia ma crescono quelle dall’Algeria: la nuova rotta porta gli sbarchi in Sardegna

Con la rotta libica del Mediterraneo centrale sempre più insicura e pericolosa, la via algerina torna una possibile opzione per i migranti irregolari diretti in Italia. I numeri segnano già in aumento: se nel 2016 gli sbarchi sono stati 1.106, ad oggi sono 1.310. Raddoppiati anche i migranti intercettati dalla Gendarmeria nazionale algerina. Il viaggio costa al massimo 700 dollari. “ Quasi nessuno vuole restare. Il loro obiettivo è l’Europa”

di Lorenzo Bagnoli

Da Annaba, al Sulcis. Dall’Algeria alle coste sarde di Carloforte, Sant’Antioco e Porto Pino. La rotta è conosciuta dagli “harraga”- i migranti “che bruciano le frontiere”, come si dice in arabo – fin dal 2005-6. È il punto più vicino dell’Italia al Nord Africa, dopo la Sicilia e Lampedusa, ovviamente. Secondo il quotidiano algerino El Watan, il viaggio costa al massimo 700 dollari: i prezzi sono cresciuti rispetto al 2016.

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„Frontex puts roots down in Poland“

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euobserver | 04.10.2017

By LUKASZ LIPINSKI

When entering the Frontex office, it feels like going into any multinational company’s building, like Google, for instance.

On an outdoor patio and inside the ultra modern building, groups of people from different European countries are conversing in English, in their different native accents. To enter, however, you have to pass through a security gate, which looks more restrictive than what you see at the airport – a reminder that it is a law enforcement agency.

The Frontex offices are currently located in the new Warsaw Spire office complex in the city’s Wola district. There, you can see some of the most original new buildings in Poland’s capital, and some of the most chic and prestigious office spaces in the city.

Inside the building, the corridors are modern and bright, with white walls and a grey carpet-like floor-covering. It feels cosier and more comfortable than the European Commission’s Berlaymont building in Brussels.

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„Mehr Arbeiter vom Balkan“

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nd | 03.10.2017

Alternative zum Asylantrag wird zunehmend genutzt

Der 2016 eingeleitete Kurswechsel der Bundesregierung im Umgang mit Jobsuchenden aus dem Westbalkan hat die Zahl der Arbeitskräfte aus der Region spürbar steigen lassen. In den ersten acht Monaten 2017 sei die Zahl der Arbeitserlaubnisse für Albaner und Menschen aus anderen Westbalkan-Ländern im Vergleich zum entsprechenden Vorjahreszeitraum um knapp 60 Prozent auf 62 957 gestiegen, wie jüngste Daten der Bundesagentur für Arbeit zeigen. Weiterlesen »

Barcelona: Besatzung der C-Star vom katalonischen Roten Kreuz gerettet

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Die C-Star, das Boot der rechtsextremen identitären Bewegung, mit dem Migrant*innen auf dem Mittelmeer abgefangen und nach Nordafrika zurückgebracht werden sollten, liegt inzwischen vor dem Hafen von Barcelona. Vor zwei Tagen hat die Internationale Transportarbeiter Gewerkschaft bekannt gemacht, dass der Reeder die Besatzung auf dem Schiff ohne Wasser und Lebensmittel zurückgelassen hat. Das katalanische Rote Kreuz hat die acht aus Sri Lanka stammenden Matrosen gerettet.

Corriere della Sera | 03.10.2017

La C-Star diventa una nave fantasma, l’equipaggio soccorso dalla Croce rossa catalana

Otto marinai dello Sri Lanka della nave degli estremisti di destra abbandonati senza cibo e acqua di fronte al porto di Barcellona

di Marta Serafini

La C-Star, la nave dei giovani di generazione identitaria, movimento di destra anti migranti, ha fatto parlare di sé per tutta l’estate. Arrembaggi, naufragi, accuse di favoreggiamento dell’immigrazione clandestina. Per oltre un mese la nave nera ha scorazzato di fronte alla Sar Zone libica nel tentativo di bloccare i soccorsi delle ong, poi se ne sono perse le tracce. Fino a due giorni fa quando l’International Transport Workers’ Federation (il sindacato dei marinai) ha denunciato come l’armatore della nave abbia abbandonato al loro destino gli otto componenti dell’equipaggio, tutti provenienti dallo Sri Lanka.

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Refugees in Greece feel like ‚prisoners and hostages‘

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Al Jazeera | 03.10.2017

Recent weeks have seen a sharp surge in the number of refugees and migrants reaching Greek islands.

Patrick Strickland 

When Arash Hampay set out from his native Iran, he envisioned Europe as a safe haven from the torture and interrogations he had endured in his homeland.

Before leaving Tehran, Hampay, a 32-year-old activist and community organiser, had been imprisoned for several months for allegedly forming an illegal political group. He insists that he was targeted for his political activism and had no choice but to flee the country.

Yet, he found a different reality when he landed on Greek shores after taking a dinghy from Turkey across the Aegean Sea in September 2016.

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„Italy’s deal to stem flow of people from Libya in danger of collapse“

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The Guardian | 04.10.2017

Number of people crossing Mediterranean rises again amid power struggle between rival factions in Libyan human-trafficking port

A key pillar of the Italian government’s effort to stem the politically toxic issue of people crossing the Mediterranean from Libya to southern Italy is in danger of collapse as a result of a bloody power struggle in the key Libyan port of Sabratha, the epicentre of human trafficking to Italy.

The Italian prime minister, Paolo Gentiloni, had hailed an 80% drop in the number of migrants reaching Italy in July and August, but the number of migrants suddenly started rising again last month as the Sabratha power struggle unfolded, suggesting rival gangs, fighting for control of the profitable business, may not prove reliable partners for the Italians.

The strategy to stem the flow of people from Libya – largely masterminded by the Italian interior minister, Marco Minniti – is seen by the governing Democratic party (PD) as critical to its fortunes in elections next spring.

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Judgment in Strasbourg on the complaints of two refugees

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ECCHR | 03.10.2017

Expulsions conducted by Spain at the EU’s external borders violate the European Convention on Human Rights

Berlin/Strasbourg, 03 October 2017 – Spanish authorities systematically and often violently expel refugees and migrants at the border with Morocco. This long-standing practice of push-backs at the external borders of the European Union (EU) is unlawful. Automatic expulsions violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), as the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today ruled in Strasbourg. The judgment came in response to two complaints against Spain brought to the ECtHR in February 2015 by two refugees from Mali and Cote d’Ivoire based on the initiative and expertise of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). The Court’s decision states that Spain’s push-back practices at the Spanish-Moroccan border are in violation of Article 4 Protocol 4 (prohibition of collective expulsions) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy) ECHR.

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„Evicted Refugees in Lebanon Have Nowhere Left to Run“

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Refugees Deeply | 28.09.2017

Lebanon wants to evict 12,000 refugees who live near an air base where foreign military assistance is delivered. The evictions, which began in spring and recently resumed after a short respite, have left refugees more vulnerable amid rising demands they return to Syria.

Charlotte Alfred, Abby Sewell

BEIRUT – Adel Jarran and his teenage sons painstakingly pulled nails from the plywood walls of their makeshift home, while his wife and younger children rolled up blankets and piled up sleeping pads.

A tall, cheerful man with a strong country accent from Syria’s Idlib province, Jarran already knew the drill. This mid-May afternoon was the family’s third eviction since seeking refuge from the Syrian war in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley six years ago.

Within a few hours, their shack would be reduced to a pile of lumber and tarps and loaded onto a caravan of trucks rattling down a dirt track out of the field that had been the family’s home for the past two years.

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