Archive for June 22nd, 2023

22/06/2023

Far-Right Extremist Ideology Spreading Like an Oil Spill in Europe

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal

MADRID, Jun 22 2023 (IPS)* – The abuse of human rights has sharply increased with the steady rise of the right and far-right parties in the wealthy industrialised countries, whose extremist ideology is now spreading faster than ever in Europe.

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Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain’s far-right Vox party. The party could soon be in government, after the 23 July 2023 general elections. Credit: Shutterstock

Indeed, most of the European Union 27 member countries are now either formally ruled by or strongly influenced and supported by extremists and populist parties, which publicly negate basic human rights, while masking their policies of suppressing public services like health, education, pensions, and protection of workers.

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22/06/2023

Deaths on Migration Routes in Middle East and North Africa Highest Since 2017

Geneva/Berlin/Cairo (IOM)* – Nearly 3,800 people died on migration routes within and from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region last year (January-December 2022), the highest number since 2017 when 4,255 deaths were recorded according to newly released data from the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project (MMP).The 3,789 deaths recorded in 2022 was 11 per cent higher than the previous year.

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IOM’s Missing Migrants Project documented 441 migrant deaths in the Central Mediterranean in the first quarter of 2023. Photo: IOM 2022…

The MENA region accounted for more than half of the total 6,877 deaths recorded worldwide by the MMP, according to the new report.

On North African land routes, particularly during the perilous Sahara Desert crossing, 203 deaths were recorded, while an additional 825 deaths occurred on Middle Eastern land routes.

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22/06/2023

UN Expert Slams Greece Over Civil Society Curbs

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