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Implementing the Pact: Commission calls for accelerated deportation procedures
The Commission has called on EU institutions and member states to ramp up efforts to prepare for the deportations that will result from the new “return border procedure” introduced by the Pact on Migration and Asylum. The proposals come in a classified report obtained by Statewatch, which assesses non-EU states’ level of cooperation with removals from the bloc. Read More
New world disorder: digital attacks on freedom of assembly
A new report from Access Now examines how digital infrastructure can be blocked, shut down, or monitored to prevent people exercising their right to freedom of assembly. Read More
Libyan decree to affect NGOs, Protests in Ethiopia, EU Parliament rejects motion on search and rescue
"In this week’s News Highlights: Protests lead to killings of civilians in Ethiopia; Returnees to Ethiopia face difficult conditions; Follow the journey of Eritrean refugees; Human rights in Eritrea the topic of seminar in European Parliament; Right-wing groups in the European Parliament vote against improving rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea; Rescue ship waits 11 days at sea; Eritreans in the Netherlands protest against the presence of the Eritrean regime." Read More
More externalisation of migration control by Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas
We pay but others do it. This first and foremost has been the response of the European Union to the so-called “refugee crisis”. Read More
Migration, EU cooperation and authoritarianism by Theodore Baird
The EU is actively cooperating with authoritarian regimes to control international movement while ignoring the disastrous human rights records of these regimes. Read More
Theresa May must take action now to save Andy Tsege
An open letter to Theresa May calling on her to take action to save the live of Andy Tsege, a British man who has been detained on Ethiopia's death row since he was kidnapped and rendered by the Ethiopian government to face a death penalty against him that was handed down in absentia. Read More
UK refused access to British father ‘in fear for his life’ on Ethiopia’s death row
"The British Foreign Office (FCO) has failed for a week to confirm the safety and wellbeing of a British father held on death row in Ethiopia, despite having received reports last weekend that his life Read More