Q&A, Anna Triandafyllidou* Sputnik European Union member states should pay into the EU budget or toward development projects in Africa if they refuse to take in refugees. This is according to a document submitted by France and Germany to EU interior ministers in Brussels…
By Jessica Loudis* – The Nation The country’s treatment of its Rohingya minority is vexing tourists, but not enough to stop the violence In 2014, the New York Times travel section published a feature on Myanmar. Declaring it was the Southeast Asian country’s “moment,” the writer…
Walter Shapiro* – The Guardian The president thinks justice only matters as it affects him. As his defenders fall away, he may find this all too painfully true A rational president, who had just bludgeoned Brett Kavanaugh onto the supreme court, would not jeopardize the…
By The Editorial Board (*) – The New York Times A plan to send the stateless Muslims back to Myanmar has been halted for now. But the cruelty and injustice endure.
Jon Sharman* – The Independent Migrants ‘will be at greater risk from traffickers and other criminal groups’ if new security decree is implemented, say special rapporteurs A rise in hate attacks in Italy cannot be separated from politicians “unashamedly embracing racist and…
Editorial Bangladesh appears poised to repatriate members of the Muslim minority who fled the campaign of violence against them. They would be at grave risk Bangladeshi soldiers, police and paramilitaries have already moved into the camps at Cox’s Bazar where some 700,000…
By Joe Freeman – The Tricycle (*) Once hailed, now reviled: five takes on Myanmar’s de facto leader Thinking back, it was like a celebration. There was music, dancing, camaraderie, cheering. I stood in front of the headquarters of the National League for Democracy in Yangon and…
Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian Xenophobia is sweeping the continent. European agreement to address migration is vital The message is glaring from Sweden’s election result.
By Mona Ali Khalil, PassBlue* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7 2018 (IPS) – It is entirely the United States’ prerogative to cut off its voluntary contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA. In her statements about why the Trump…
By Angela Dewan, Erin McLaughlin and Antonia Mortensen – CNN After their rendezvous on Tuesday in Milan, the staunchly anti-migrant Orban described Salvini as his hero for refusing to allow rescued asylum-seekers, stuck on a boat, to set foot on Italian soil unless the European…
