Over the past three and a half months, the period of time covered by this new Alarm Phone regional analysis of developments in the central Mediterranean, the Alarm Phone was alerted to 24 distress situations in that region, involving over 1,700 people. Nine of these boats were returned, or presumably returned, to Libya. Seven were rescued to Malta and four to Italy. One boat was intercepted by the Tunisian coastguards.
„Repression durch Anti-Terror-Gesetze in der arabischen Welt“ – GIGA
Weltweit ist die Anzahl von Anti-Terror-Gesetzen seit einigen Jahren stark gestiegen. Insbesondere arabische Staaten nutzen die von global agierenden Terrorgruppen ausgehende Gefahr als Vorwand, um Andersdenkende als Terroristen zu verunglimpfen, um sie mit Billigung externer Akteure zu unterdrücken und die Arbeit der friedlichen Opposition einzuschränken.
10 Years Network Welcome to Europe
In Lesvos in late summer 2009 about 400 noborder activists from various countries met together with hundreds of refugees and migrants, who just had arrived from Turkey with small boats on the coasts of this Greek island. In the middle of these struggles the idea of Welcome to Europe (w2eu) was born: to build daily structures and to provide useful multilingual information to empower and to support refugees and migrants in transit for their right to move to their desired destination.
Alarm Phone Aegean Regional Report
The Aegean Sea this year has become once again the most frequent escape route chosen by people on their way to Europe. As a consequence, the numbers of refugees trapped in Greece steadily increased for a third year in a row. While the Turkish Coast Guard seems to have detected and arrested more or less the same number of refugees attempting to cross the border in the Aegean Sea irregularly in the first five months of 2019, thus, continuing with the practice of “pull-backs”. This phenomenon has also been observed by the Alarm Phone. Through the emergency calls it receives, the Alarm Phone has noticed an increase in accounts of attacks by “masked men” in the Greek territorial waters. Attacks which were followed by pull-backs by the Turkish authorities.
Atlas der Migration
Die Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung hat ihren neuen Atlas der Migration herausgegeben. Er kann hier heruntergeladen oder bei der RLS als Printausgabe bestellt werden.
Die Gestrandeten in Moria
4.390 Menschen leben auf der griechischen Insel Lesbos im Lager Moria. Wenige erhalten Asyl. Einige werden in die Türkei geschickt. Manche versuchen es illegal nach Mitteleuropa. Doch die meisten können nur warten.
Push-Backs auf dem Balkan – Violence Report
Chain push-backs from Slovenia to BiH are conducted routinely in the border areas outside of the Una-Sana Canton. In the time period between June 2018 and May 2019, we have collected 62 testimonies of push-backs from Slovenia to BiH, representing over 350 individuals pushed back from Slovenia to BiH in the span of a year.
Biometrics: The new frontier of EU migration policy in Niger
The New Humanitarian berichtet über die Einführung eines neuen biometrischen Informationssystems, MIDAS, das in Niger unter Federführung von FRONTEX als erstem Land eingesetzt wird.
Eritrea: zusätzliche Fluchtrouten, seit der Weg in die EU schwieriger geworden ist
Seit der eritreische Präsident Isaias Afwerki im September 2018 die Grenzen öffnete und andeutete, den lebenslangen Militärdienst aufzulockern, geht die Anzahl von in Europa ankommenden Eritreer*innen zurück. Dasliegt aber nicht an weniger Flüchtenden, sondern es entstehen neue Migrationsrouten.
Borders of violence: “When I resisted to enter the small dark room, they started beating me.”
Since August/September 2018, we have witnessed a constant exacerbation of the situation of travellers in transit on the Western Mediterranean route. Violence and the threat of detention is a constant reality for sub-saharan travellers.