Refugees / Migration

Rohingya Crisis: UNHCR offers ‘mental health first aid’ to traumatised refugees

Rohingya refugees have been fleeing violence in Myanmar at a staggering rate – and the numbers keep growing. Last month UNHCR published a video to show their work, offering ‘mental health first aid’ to traumatised refugees. More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar...

La collaboration de Paris et Bruxelles avec le Soudan pour identifier les dissidents

Ce n’est pas la première fois que nous abordons le sujet polémique de la collaration entre l’Europe et les autorités Soudanaises dans le cadre de la régulation des migrants. Vous pouvez lire notre édito du mois d’avril dernier : Sudan: From Darfur and chemical...

La France et la Belgique permettent-elles au Soudan de repartier d’Europe des opposants ?

C’est la question que l’on est en droit de se poser à la lecture de cet article publié cette semaine sur le site Le Monde. Il est écrit collectivement par des gens bien informés que nous connaissons bien, à savoir Aïcha El Basri, ancienne porte-parole de la Mission de...

Pirates au Sahara par Jérôme Tubiana (Revue XXI)

Le mois dernier nous vous avons proposé de lire l’article (en anglais) de Jérôme Tubiana : Europe’s ‘Migrant Hunters’ qui détaillait comment s’organise le passage des migrants entre le Niger et la Libye. Si vous ne comprenez pas forcément l’anglais et que le...

International Day of Peace: ‘Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All’

International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. It’s an important day we celebrate every year as a Sama Day and the theme for 2017 is “Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All.” As you may already know, ‘magkasama‘ (the name of...

Europe’s ‘Migrant Hunters’ by Jérôme Tubiana

Last month we published some extracts from Jérôme Tubiana’s article posted on IRIN website: The dangerous fiction of Darfur’s peace. Now the independent researcher on Sudan, South Sudan, and Chad has posted a new article on migrants smugglers between Niger and Libya, detailing...

Save Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Haitians and other nationals

The Haiti Advocacy Working Group (HAWG) tweeted regarding the Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the legal status which protects refugees whose home countries have suffered natural disaster or war from deportation. The Trump Administration suggested that it would be up to Congress to...

Syrian refugees in Greece: The music teacher (UNHCR)

UNHCR has posted a video on Syrian refugees in Greece: The music teacher. The agency explains there are more than 60,000 refugees and migrants – most from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan – living in refugee sites and other facilities across Greece. Some have been here for over a year....

Sudan: From Darfur and chemical attacks to European partnership and U.S collaboration

In September 2016, Amnesty International published an alarming report: Chemical weapons have been used by Sudan against civilians in Darfur conflict; between 200 and 250 people may have died as a result of exposure to the chemical weapons agents. Here is our post about it. A month later,...

Une émigration non choisie – Histoires de demandeurs d’asile du Darfour (Soudan) de Marie-José Tubiana

Nous vous suggérons régulièrement des ouvrages dont nous pensons qu’ils méritent votre attention. Certains d’entre eux font aussi l’objet de Discussions en ligne que nous vous proposons une fois par mois, et c’est le cas de celui que nous vous invitons à...