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DRC - a lesson in why we must serve people who are not refugees, along with those who are
There are more than 73,000 South Sudanese refugees who have entered DRC since 1 January 2016, and the crossing of the border between the...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 24, 20174 min read
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France's sanctions plan against Libya (and the plan's manifest problems)
France has threatened sanctions against the Libyan ‘government’ after French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the sale of men into...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 24, 20173 min read
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Rohingyans' parallels with DRC
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, says that Rohingyans have been ‘drained’ by the ordeal they have been put...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 23, 20172 min read
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Lebanon's Hariri 'pauses' resignation
Saad Hariri has ‘paused’ his resignation as Lebanon’s Prime Minister. Speaking in Beirut, to which he has returned for the first time...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 22, 20174 min read
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UNHCR's flawed approach to Africa
The United Nations says it has moved 25 ‘extremely vulnerable’ refugees from Libya to Niger, in the first stage of its new – deeply...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 13, 20174 min read
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Turkish coastguard fires on refugees in international waters
Seawatch, Refugee Rescue and Lighthouse Relief have called for the UNHCR to investigate an incident in which the Turkish coastguard...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 12, 20172 min read
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Greece, EU, 'breaking international law' with policy of detaining refugees
Three October cases decided in refugees’ favour by the Administrative Court in Mytelline have cast doubt over the legality of Greek...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 11, 20173 min read
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Greek politicians (wrongly) blame Turkey for refugee arrivals
Lesvos’ leading politicians, including its Mayor Spiros Galinos, have warned the Greek government that it must take actions to reverse...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 9, 20174 min read
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Libya's coastguard: an EU-funded sea militia?
Aid organisation Sea Watch, which operates to rescue refugees on the Mediterranean, has criticised the Libyan coastguard for endangering...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 8, 20171 min read
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Yiannis Mouzalas: misleading the world on refugee numbers
Greece’s Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas admits Greece is finding the refugee situation ‘more difficult to manage’ as numbers...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 2, 20174 min read
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Sahel force; an exercise in folly
The UN meets today to discuss the formation of a five-nation, 5,000 soldier armed force to operate across the Sahel and into Libya. The...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 30, 20174 min read
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Syria 'safe zones' - why they are unlikely to work
Crux, a Catholic news site, has become the latest commentator to call for the creation of ‘safe zones’ in Syria, which Syrian people...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 29, 20172 min read
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Europe's far-Right harming refugees across the world
India's Major General Harsha Kakar argues that Europe ‘has realised its mistake’ in allowing refugees to live in safety and security,...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 26, 20171 min read
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Cardinal claims 'states have right' to deny people access
Cardinal Robert Sarah, a right-wing and traditionalist prelate of the Guinean Roman Catholic Church, claims that ‘every nation has the...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 25, 20172 min read
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UN, Amnesty, call for Europe and US to do more to help refugees
The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has visited Washington DC to request the US does more to ‘show leadership’ on...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 24, 20173 min read
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Greece to nominate Mouzalas as HRC, despite astonishing failures on refugees
The Greek government says it is nominating Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas as an EU Human Rights Commissioner. It says it believes...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 23, 20172 min read
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Tsipras calls for five EU responses to refugees, but all have already been promised, and not carried
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has presented the EU leaders' summit (Brussels; 19-21 October) with five measures the EU should...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 21, 20173 min read
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Turkey and the EU: a deal in danger
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a state visit to Poland asks the EU to state clearly whether it wants Turkey to be a member of...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 19, 20174 min read
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Greece's non-functional asylum service
UNHCR reports that between 1 April 2016 and 6 October 2017, 1,360 people have been returned from Greece to Turkey. The majority – 593 –...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 18, 20172 min read
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Winter looms, but Greece remains unprepared
There are increasing signs that although the situation at refugee camps on the Greek mainland in terms of winterisation is likely to be...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 18, 20172 min read
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