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11/03/2016

UN Rights Chief Calls on EU to Adopt Much More ‘Humane’ Measures on Migration

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Geneva – The United Nations human rights chief on 10 March 2016 reiterated his profound concern about the situation faced by refugees and migrants “in extreme vulnerability,” and urged the European Union to adopt a more humane set of measures on migration at a summit next week.

At a port in Greece, a young boy and his family join other refugees and migrants trying to board a bus that will transport them to the centre of Athens. UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis

“In the first two months of this year, more than 400 people have died trying to reach Europe – due partly to the lack of viable avenues of entry,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein told the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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11/03/2016

The Refugee Crisis and the Polarization of Europe

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By Peter Schwarz*

11 March 2016 (WSWS) – Idomeni, Lesbos, Calais … every day one sees pictures that for decades one could not have imagined in Europe: refugees, including families with small children, living in improvised tents and burrows, drowning in rain and mud, lacking medication and food. And again and again: closed borders, barbed wire and heavily armed police who attack desperate refugees with tear gas and batons.

A young child eats a sandwich next to the tarpaulin that serves as a makeshift shelter, close to the town of Gevgelija, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on the border with Greece (September 2015). Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2015-2191/Georgiev

Large sections of the population look on these brutal scenes with horror and disgust, but the official political debate on the refugee crisis takes place within a narrow spectrum ranging from the right to the ultra-right.

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10/03/2016

Don’t Know, Don’t Care

By Tania Karas*

ATHENS/ISTANBUL/KABUL, 29 February 2016 (IRIN) – For the past week, Shaima and Mohamad Ahsad, both schoolteachers from Afghanistan, have slept on the ground in Victoria Square in Athens with their four young children. Over the weekend, the small park swelled with more than 500 migrants and refugees, most of them Afghans who, like the Ahsads, have been barred from continuing their journeys.

Kostis Ntantamis/IRIN | The Ahsad family have spent the past week sleeping in this small park in central Athens

Until two weeks ago, Afghans were among three nationalities of refugees allowed to proceed to Macedonia and head northward to seek asylum in countries such as Germany and Sweden.

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10/03/2016

Philippe Lamberts: Europe’s Governments Have shown ‘Unconscionable Cowardice’ Over Migration Crisis

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By Cécile Barbière | EurActiv.fr

EXCLUSIVE, 10 March 2016 (EurActiv) – If the French government had supported its German partners on the issue of refugees, the European response to the crisis would not have been a failure, according to Philippe Lamberts.

Philippe Lamberts spoke out strongly on the EU-Turkey deal at the Strasbourg plenary session this week. | European Parliament] | Source: EurActive

Philippe Lamberts is a Belgian MEP and co-chair of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament.

The EU-Turkey migration summit led to a series of proposals that have been roundly criticised, notably within the European Parliament. How would you assess the attitude of the European governments during the negotiations?

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10/03/2016

250,000 Children Living in Terror in Syria’s Besieged Areas

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9 March 2016 (Save the Children)* – A new report from Save the Children reveals that barrel bombs, air strikes and shelling are the biggest issues for the more than a quarter of a million children estimated to be living in besieged areas in Syria.

Source: Save the Children

Parents testify to the horror of family life under siege, not only dealing with the psychological impact on children terrified of explosions, but the dire consequences of being deprived of food, basic medicine and clean water.

Recent moves to increase aid to besieged areas are welcome, but deliveries have been found to be ad-hoc, piecemeal and often stripped of vital supplies including medical equipment.

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10/03/2016

Lula and the BRICS in a Fight to the Death

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By Pepe Escobar*

8 March 2016 (RT) – “BRICS”(1) is the dirtiest of acronyms in the Beltway/Wall Street axis, and for a solid reason: the consolidation of the BRICS is the only organic, global-reach project with the potential to derail Exceptionalistan’s grip over the so-called “international community.”

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Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, cheered by his supporters in São Paulo, after his detention and release | Credit: Ricardo Stuckert/ Instituto Lula | Source: IPS

So it’s no surprise the three key BRICS powers have been under simultaneous attack, on many fronts, for some time now.

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10/03/2016

Is There Any Hope for a Peaceful Result to the Geneva Talks on Syria?

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By Salih Dogan and Emre Turkut*

8 March 2016 (openDemocracy) – If a lasting peace is to be achieved, the main motivation behind the talks cannot be simply ‘to restore political order.’

The Security Council unanimously adopts resolution on Syria negotiations [18 December 2015] | UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

The Geneva talks that began on 29 January aiming to end the civil war in Syria were suspended and re-opened on 25 February(1). By the looks of the current status on the ground internationally, the talks will be trapped in a dead-end street.

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10/03/2016

When Sex Is the Currency: Corruption in the Arab World

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By Marwa Fatafta*

8 March 2016, Transparency International – “For every button you open on your blouse, you will get an extra grade in the course,” a professor told a female student when she visited his office at a private university in Jordan. He demanded a sexual favour in return for a passing grade. She failed.

** The harasser threatens the victim. If she doesn’t accept, he will do something against her | Author: Leon israel | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. | Wikimedia Commons

She is not alone. Many women in the Arab World and across the globe face sexual exploitation, blackmail and assault by their superiors at work and by others with power elsewhere in exchange for services, access and benefits.

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10/03/2016

Brain Drain: The Neglected Mental Health of Refugees in Europe

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By Shira Rubin*

How stigma and a lack of help are leaving trauma untreated

Source: IRIN

A Syrian woman is haunted by the memory of her husband dying from a cardiac arrest as they tried to cross the Turkish border with their four children.

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09/03/2016

‘Take My Iraqis and Give Me Some Syrians’ – Europe to Turkey

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By Baher Kamal*

8 March 2016 (IPS) – In a yet another violation of international laws and their own human values, 28 European countries have just agreed with Turkey to open a new “bazaar” of refugees, this time using the old barter system. i.e. Iraqis and Afghans in exchange of Syrians.

A boy clutches and looks through a chain-link fence, on a rainy day near the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia town of Gevgelija, on the border with Greece. September 2015 Photo: UNICEF/UNI196199/Georgia

See what happened: the leaders of the 28 member states of the European Union met on 7 March in Brussels with Turkey’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, to bargain a new refugees deal.

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