Archive for April 23rd, 2022

23/04/2022

Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part II: Hungary, Poland

Human Wrongs Watch

MADRID, Apr 22 2022 (IPS)* Part I of this two-part series focused on the cases of the United Kingdom and Greece. This article will deal with how Hungary has been criminalising organisations that provide humanitarian assistance to migrants, and how Poland ‘arbitrarily’ detains thousands of asylum seekers.
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Refugees on the move. Credit: UNHCR/Ivor Pricket

In fact, Hungary, a European Union full member country, has a long record of ‘demonising’ migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

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23/04/2022

Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part I: UK, Greece

Human Wrongs Watch

MADRID, Apr 21 2022 (IPS)* – In what looks pretty much like an ‘operation clean sweep’ aiming at getting rid of more and more migrants, refugees and asylum seekers by shipping them far away, the process of ‘externalisation’ of millions of victims of wars, poverty, climate crisis and political persecution, is now growing fast.

“At a time when the people of the UK have opened their hearts and homes to Ukrainians, the government is choosing to act with cruelty and rip up their obligations to others fleeing war and persecution” says HRW report. Credit: UNOHCR

In fact, in a short period of time, reports by major human rights organisations have revealed how the US and Europe, in addition to Australia, are increasingly sending migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to other countries, regardless of their human rights records.

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