Refugee crisis. Something on the scale of the Marshall plan required?

[Lurdan]

Mainstream politicians ‘clueless on migration debate’, says Jo Cox's husband

Don't really understand why they don't link to the blog post by Cox they are quoting from but anyhow it's here fwiw.

 

[teqniq]

53 councils in England are refusing to take any Syrian refugees

 

[teqniq]

*bump*

 

[mather]

If we stopped needlessly bombing and invading other countries and ceased intervening in other countries internal affairs, that would be a start. Tony Blair contributed a lot to the mess in the Middle East and the current refugee crisis is blowback from all the wars and instability that have been caused by liberal interventionism, a policy which Tony Blair was one of the main proponents of. It would be nice if we could throw Tony Blair in jail and house some of these refugees in the many fancy properties that he owns.

 

[teqniq]

Whilst I don't disagree with you, Erdogan and his crew are complete arseholes.

 

[mather]

Agreed and not just on the issue of the refugee crisis, but many other things too!

 

[yield]

With Food Rations Halved in Kenya, Concerns for Refugees’ Health Arise
07/12/2016

Nairobi: Food rations to more than 400,000 refugees in Kenya have been halved due to severe funding shortages, and existing supplies will run out completely at the end of February, the UN said on Tuesday.

Kenya hosts 434,000 refugees from 21 countries, mainly from war-torn neighbouring South Sudan and Somalia, in two overcrowded camps on its northern borders.

“We are very worried about the impact of this on the refugees,” Challiss McDonough, a spokeswoman for the World Food Programme (WFP), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“There is a chance, particularly if (the food ration cuts) go on for a long time, of health consequences, of deterioration in people’s nutritional status.”

 

[rekil]

The Crossing - Documentary about the Irish navy rescuing people in the med shown last night. Only viewable outside Ireland with a VPN I suppose.

Photo essay.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Leaving aside the current crisis concerning people who have left Syria and other war zones, the massive crisis is the restitution of Syria when peace finally comes. You see the TV news, towns and cities damn near levelled.

A lot of those who have fled want to go back home when they can, but at present there is no home to go to.

It is going to cost tens if not hundreds, of billions to rebuild. That has to be funded, preferably without the nauseating corruption that occurred in Iraq.

 

[teqniq]

A French farmer fed and sheltered migrants. Now he faces 5 years in prison.

 

[yield]

Famine 'largest humanitarian crisis in history of UN'

UN humanitarian chief says 20 million people in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria face starvation and famine.

11 March 2017

Raped, beaten, exploited: the 21st-century slavery propping up Sicilian farming

Thousands of female Romanian farm workers are suffering horrendous abuse

Sunday 12 March 2017

 

[teqniq]

I know this is essentially repeating the info in yield's post above but this is an AVOIDABLE tragedy. The wrong regimes in the region (mainly KSA) are being supported for all the wrong reasons.

World has just months to stop starvation in Yemen, Somalia - Red Cross | Top News | Reuters

 

[teqniq]

Things go from bad to worse in Libya

The country where refugees are being sold at 'regular public slave auctions'

 

[teqniq]

Worth a watch

Escape from Syria: Rania's odyssey – video

 

[teqniq]

*bump* again

Five myths about the refugee crisis

Predictably the EU does not come out of this looking exactly untarnished.

 

[Pickman's model]

*bump* again

Five myths about the refugee crisis

Predictably the EU does not come out of this looking exactly untarnished.

And how could it hope to when it's made of member states like Hungary and the UK?

 

[teqniq]

I would paint a picture of much more collective responsibility than that.

 

[teqniq]

'I'm 95, I saw the 1945 refugee crisis firsthand and I have a warning'

 

[Pickman's model]

I would paint a picture of much more collective responsibility than that.

Yeh. But as below, at a member state level, so above at an eu level.

 

[teqniq]

I kinda think that's what I'm saying and now we find that the EU is planning on migrant processing centres in north Africa

 

[teqniq]

Refugee routes blocked for reporters as well | Reporters without borders

 

[teqniq]

Many of the replies to the topmost tweet are, frankly depressing.

 

[yield]

Walk or die: Algeria strands 13,000 migrants in the Sahara
25/06/18

ASSAMAKA, Niger (AP) — From this isolated frontier post deep in the sands of the Sahara, the expelled migrants can be seen coming over the horizon by the hundreds. They look like specks in the distance, trudging miserably across some of the world’s most unforgiving terrain in the blistering sun.

They are the ones who made it out alive.

Here in the desert, Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, stranding them without food or water and forcing them to walk, sometimes at gunpoint, under temperatures of up to 48 degrees Celsius

 

[teqniq]

More evidence if any more was needed that the EU is directly responsible for the plight of these people.

 

[yield]

More evidence if any more was needed that the EU is directly responsible for the plight of these people.

Heartbreaking

 

[teqniq]

EU condemns rescue boats picking up drowning refugees in Mediterranean

The European Union has condemned rescue boats picking up drowning refugees in the Mediterranean, in a dramatic hardening of the bloc’s border policy that brings it in line with the continent’s anti-immigration populists.

After a summit in Brussels EU leaders backed the approach of Italy’s new populist government to the boats, suggesting the vessels should stay away and could be breaking the law by picking up those in distress.

A communiqué issued by the European Council warns the vessels’ operators that they should defer to the Libyan coastguard, which NGOs say amounts to “deliberately condemning vulnerable people to be trapped in Libya, or die at sea”....

 

[yield]

EU condemns rescue boats picking up drowning refugees in Mediterranean

Jesus wept. Hate to see the way Fortress Europe is heading.

 

[teqniq]

Refugee drownings 'skyrocket' as Italy's right-wingers block rescue boats

 

[yield]

Aquarius cannot disembark in Marseille, says French minister
25/09/18

The Aquarius is the last private rescue ship operating in the area used for crossings from Libya to Europe. It has been at the centre of a row about Europe’s approach to migration since Italy refused to allow it to dock on its shores in June. Last month it spent 19 days docked in the French port of Marseille after Gibraltar revoked its flag. It set sail again last week after first acquiring Panamanian recognition.

On Monday Panamanian authorities revoked the Aquarius vessel’s registration in a move described by Médecins Sans Frontières and SOS Méditerranée, which operated the vessel, as “a major blow” to its humanitarian mission.

They claimed that Panama was forced to revoke the registration after coming under pressure from the Italian government. Italy’s anti-immigration interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has denied that his government was responsible. Writing on Twitter on Sunday he claimed he did not know the telephone dialling code for Panama.

 

[teqniq]

but I bet he knows someone who does.