ECHOES Team – Page 9
Call for Protest – Sit In – Demonstration In front of the Headquarter of UNHCR 9th & 10th of December 2022 One year ago, thousands of refugees had been protesting for more than 100 days in front of the UNHCR……
ECHOES TEAM
SUBVERTING THE NARRATIVES ABOUT SMUGGLING
By Captain Support & Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research Why we need this discussion Across the EU and its member states, migration is constructed as a threat that needs to be defended against. Particular emphasis in this is given to…
IUVENTA: NOTES FROM TRAPANI
By iuventa crew As we approach the end of the preliminary trial, we want to take a look back… After its start in May 2022, the preliminary phase of the trial against the four defendants of the iuventa-crew is entering…
ALLIANCE WITH REFUGEES IN LIBYA
A new translocal network called “Alliance with Refugees in Libya” (ARiL) was built already in August 2023 – following mobilization at the end of June in Brussels (see Echoes No. 7, page 18) in a meeting in Bologna. Bologna was…
GERMANY: CALL TO STOP THE CRIMINALISATION OF SEA RESCUE AND SOLIDARITY!
In Germany, the Federal Ministry of the Interior has presented a draft law which, among other things, could penalize sea rescue with up to 10 years in prison. The paragraph is embedded in further tightening of asylum law. This must…
THE NEW BORDER ASYLUM PROCEDURES IN ITALY
A new way of “managing” arrivals and the violation of refugee rights at the southern EU border A few days after the Cutro massacre, the Italian government gathered all its ministers in the Calabrian village for an “extraordinary” council of…
ALBANIA: THE BIG STRATEGY AND THE SMALL DIRTY MARKET
Three levels of interpretation must be considered in the face of the “surprise move” announced by Italian Prime Minister Meloni together with Albanian Prime Minister Rama November 6th in Rome. They presented a memorandum that envisages, by late Spring 2024,…
RELAUNCH OF THE WEBGUIDE FROM THE NETWORK WELCOME TO EUROPE (W2EU)
On 20 September 2023 the quadrilingual webguide of the network Welcome to Europe was relaunched: “w2eu.info provides information to refugees and migrants that might be useful on their journey to and through Europe. We want to give access to counseling…
REPORT FROM THE MALDUSA CAMP IN LAMPEDUSA
7-12 October 2023 Maldusa invited about 60 activists from various solidarity projects in the Mediterranean Sea and beyond. On the one hand, the network internal meeting intended to further consolidate the cooperation and practices between actors at sea and on…
DISEMBARKING RESCUED PEOPLE IN TUNISIA OR LIBYA
Italian government’s dream, migrants’ nightmare, harassment of the Civil fleet At the very moment when the spread of the global state of war with the tragedy in the Middle East distracts public opinion attention from the permanent humanitarian crisis in…
