“It is the weapons companies, private prisons, and asset management firms like BlackRock that stand to gain a profit from war and migration.” With little government support and corporate accountability, humanitarian aid workers are scrambling ...
“In reaction to tense social conditions and a weakening of the Aegean border, the Greek prime minister froze the nation’s asylum application system on Sunday night.” Over the past week, a series of changes in ...
“Our great fear when passions are so high is that blood will be spilled.” Police clashed with residents on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios Tuesday as the police deployed tear gas. The island ...
The Open Arms ship, a migrant rescue boat run by Spanish charity Proactiva, has been stuck at sea for over two weeks as migrants onboard await their fate while Italy debates their future. Italian Prime ...
As refugee numbers swell in Europe and the “Balkan route” explodes, unsanitary and overcrowded camps are forcing migrants into clashes with police. Refugees at the Croatian border clashed with police in the last week of ...
Despite all the vitriol surrounding immigration policy, the reasons behind the crisis in Central America are rarely examined in depth by mainstream media outlets. This article will provide a brief, and by no means exhaustive, ...
Greece has charged members of a migrant rescue group with human trafficking in an effort to crack down on the organization’s aid to refugees crossing the Aegean Sea. At least four humanitarian workers and members ...
In a reversal of recent policy, Italy has announced it will allow migrant rescue ships to dock at its ports, at least for the next five weeks. After a discussion between Italian Foreign Minister Enzo ...
Italy’s interior minister is Europe’s answer to President Donald Trump with an even more hardline stance on immigration than his American counterpart. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who took the position in June, said that he ...
Last Friday, 14 members of the European Union (EU) said they had reached an agreement with Germany over the return of asylum seekers. The countries included are Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Finland, ...
Over 68 million people worldwide were forced to flee their homes due to war, persecution, and violence in 2017 according to the latest report from the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR). That translates to one person every ...
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