Tag: Migrants

More than 91,000 migrants crossed perilous Darien Gap this year (Al Jazeera)

More than 91,300 migrants – most of them Haitians – have trekked through Panama’s dangerous Darien Gap jungle so far this year in hopes of reaching...

(Greece) Greek Authorities Target NGOs Reporting Abuses against Migrant (HRW)

Eva Cossé writes for HRW: Greek authorities are using criminal investigations to harass and intimidate groups that investigate abuses against migrants at Greece’s border. At a...

Europe/Mediterranean/Migrants – EU partly to blame for Mediterranean migrant deaths: UN (Al Arabiya)

The European Union is partly to blame for deaths of migrants taking boats across the Mediterranean due to unanswered distress calls, obstruction of humanitarian...

(Pandemic/Migrants) Beyond gratitude: lessons learned from migrants’ contribution to the Covid-19 response (ODI)

Claire Kumar and Elsa Oommen with Federica Fragapane and Marta Foresti This report recognises and values the fundamental contribution of migrant workers to our societies and economies throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Over...

Strategies/City, development, technology: the perspective of migrants and refugees (Lucy Earle, Marco Emanuele, The Science of Where Magazine)

The Science of Where Magazine meets Lucy Earle, a principal researcher in the Human Settlements Research Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development | Linking local...

BOSNIA/MIGRANTS – ‘We will die’: Hundreds of migrants freezing in Bosnia camp (Al Jazeera)

Hundreds of migrants have been stranded in a squalid, burned-out tent camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina as heavy snow fell in the country and...

MIGRANTS/PANDEMIC – International Migrants Day and COVID-19 (Omer Karasapan, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/12/18/international-migrants-day-and-covid-19/