Search and Rescue

Testimony by Tara Lee Rodas for The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement
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Testimony by Tara Lee Rodas for The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement

Editor’s note: We are non-partisan. Children are being hurt. Please, watch, read, learn, and act accordingly. Hearing Date: Wednesday 04/26/2023 – 3:00 PM Hearing Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building The hearing, “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children,” will examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and…

The Situation of the Rohingya and Deadly Sea Crossings – Refugees International
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The Situation of the Rohingya and Deadly Sea Crossings – Refugees International

This piece was jointly submitted with Women’s Peace Network to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons in response to their call for inputs. For decades, as an ethnic minority group, the Rohingya people have faced discrimination, oppression, and persecution in Myanmar. Stripped from their access to property, citizenship, and other basic rights,…

EU funds border control deal in Egypt with migration via Libya on rise | Reuters
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EU funds border control deal in Egypt with migration via Libya on rise | Reuters

CAIRO, Oct 30 (Reuters) – The European Union signed an agreement with Egypt on Sunday for the first phase of an 80 million-euro border management programme, a statement from the EU delegation in Cairo said, at a time when Egyptian migration to Europe has been rising. The project aims to help Egypt’s coast and border…

Frontex complicit in modern slavery and abuse in Libya
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Frontex complicit in modern slavery and abuse in Libya

“About half an hour after we left… we heard a drone over our head… Two hours later… a boat appeared: it was the Libyans,” Abu Laila* told Human Rights Watch and Border Forensics.   His story resonates with the broader evidence shared by the organizations this week in a multimedia research feature with a clear…

UN calls on States to address trafficking and smuggling in light of new challenges in Asia-Pacific
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UN calls on States to address trafficking and smuggling in light of new challenges in Asia-Pacific

IOM, UNHCR, UNODC joint press statement Bangkok – In wake of the Bali Process celebrating its 20th anniversary, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN’S Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have called on the States involved in the Bali Process to strengthen and enhance cooperation among…

Armed militias endanger and exploit people fleeing Libya – with E.U. support
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Armed militias endanger and exploit people fleeing Libya – with E.U. support

“Get away from Libyan territorial (waters), otherwise we’ll shoot you by SAM (surface-to-air) missiles,” German doctor Leona Blankenstein heard from a vessel that had been given to the so-called Libyan Coast Guard by Italy as she flew above a migrant boat in Maltese waters on October 25. Charity organizations providing search and rescue in the Central…

Sally Hayden: EU adds Egypt to the list of countries it is paying to keep migrants out
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Sally Hayden: EU adds Egypt to the list of countries it is paying to keep migrants out

On October 30th the first phase of an “€80 million border management programme” was signed between the EU and Egypt during a visit to Cairo by the EU’s commissioner for neighbourhood and enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi. The funding will assist Egypt’s border and coastguards, the Reuters news agency has reported, while providing for “the procurement of…

At least 29000 migrants have died trying to reach Europe since 2014: UN researchers
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At least 29000 migrants have died trying to reach Europe since 2014: UN researchers

More than 29,000 migrants have died trying to reach Europe since 2014, with 5,000 deaths in the last two years, the International Organization for Migration said in a report Tuesday. The United Nations agency’s Missing Migrants Project spoke of “increasing numbers of deaths seen on routes across the Mediterranean, on land borders to Europe and…

NAPTIP, Meta launch 'Amber Alert' to fight against child trafficking – Peoples Gazette
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NAPTIP, Meta launch 'Amber Alert' to fight against child trafficking – Peoples Gazette

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has launched an Amber Alert device to assist in the fight against human trafficking and enhance investigation and rescue efforts. The launch of the device on Wednesday in Abuja was with the collaboration of Meta, an American multinational technology conglomerate company. The Amber Alert…

What happens to the people the E.U. abandons at sea
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What happens to the people the E.U. abandons at sea

Almost 13,000 people were intercepted in the Mediterranean and returned to Libya between January and August 20, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Many were then held in dire conditions and subjected to torture and forced labor.   By strengthening the Libyan Coast Guard’s capacity to intercept boats and avoiding their own duty…