In their recently published reports, Slovenian organizations Amnesty International Slovenia and Legal Information Center for NGOs , confirm that since June 2018 refugees entering Slovenia are being systematically pushed back to Croatia and from there to Bosnia. People’s right to asylum is being systematically obstructed. These organizations conducted almost 100 interviews at the end of June
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America’s treatment of refugee children is abhorrent, so is Europe’s
‘’Hamid* and his kids are in jail, they were rejected again,’’ a volunteer on the Greek island of Chios called to tell me late last year. Chios has received the second largest number of refugees fleeing to Europe via. Turkey since the refugee crisis began in 2015. The youngest of the imprisoned Syrian Kurdish family
Bosnia and the ‘new Balkan route’
Freedom’s refugee support correspondent Chiara Lauvergnac reports from Bosnia and Balkans. A growing number of refugees and other migrants are using the new Balkan route through Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia to reach the EU. Many passed recently to Bosnia from Serbia. An estimate 4000 to 5000 migrant people are now in Bosnia, most of whom
Fortress Europe: a View From Its Eastern Border
European attention to the ongoing crisis of migration is mostly focused on the Mediterranean. The terrible plight of refugees stranded there is well known to the general public and activists. Meanwhile, for years the European Union is experiencing yet another, far less known refugee crisis on its eastern border, an issue which barely gets any
In or Out the ruling class will win and Fortress Europe will remain. Unless we dismantle it.
People in Britain will be given a mockery of choice in the upcoming European elections. If the Leave campaign wins, they will be faced with a repeal of worker’s and human rights, a good possibility of even more restrictions on union laws and less movement around the continent. Additionally the Conservatives and future governments may
December 14th: Call for Solidarity from Calais
From Calais Migrant Solidarity ‘They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds’ In recent months, from Ventimiglia to Calais, state violence has increased against those who travel without papers. We see this in the re-introduction of border controls in various states in the Schengen zone that (among other things) resulted in new