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A report of Aseel Aburass which is a freedom of movement coordinator with PHRI “We get calls from women living in the Gaza Strip every day. They all have one thing in common – the Israeli permit regime, which limits their freedom of movement and denies them access to medical...
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The people who try to cross the Italian-French border are migrants coming from the Mediterranean route and extended families coming from the Balkan route, originally from the Middle East and South Asia. They are people fleeing from wars, persecutions, conflicts, whose journey can last years. They arrive in Oulx exhausted,...
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We want to use our experience to help the Ukrainian people. In recent weeks we have worked to understand how and where to intervene to bring our support to the Ukrainian population fleeing the war. In humanitarian crises such as this, we need to quickly adapt the interventions according to...
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“My name is Hana. I am the mother of three boys, and we have had three catastrophes. This is the first time I’m talking about it, and I hope someone will listen! The first catastrophe started when my eldest, Ibrahim, was a year old. He fainted suddenly, and there was...
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Three more deaths on the French-Italian border. On 1 February 2022, two foreign citizens died in tragic circumstances while trying to cross the border. A month earlier, in early January, another body was found this time on the other side of the border, near Modane. Three stories and three border...
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Oulx,4 February 2022 –Fathallah Balafhail, 31, was found dead on 2 January 2022 at the Barrage delFreney, not far from Modane, after trying to walk across the Alps. He came fromMorocco, one of the many who tried the longest route crossing the Balkans viaTurkey. He had lived for a while...
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As European civil society and professional organisations working on asylum, migration, humanitarian assistance and human rights, we are shocked by the continuing humanitarian crisis at the borders between the EU and Belarus which causes immense suffering and has led to the deaths of at least ten people. While we fully...
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Rome, 19 July 2021 –  While the Italian Parliament approved the renewal of funds intended to the Libyan Coast Guard on Friday the 16th of July, 2021, the details of the atrocities committed against migrants in detention centers in the North African country, whether controlled by the government in Tripoli or...
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Rome, 15 July 2021 – On the morning of the 14th of July, the informal settlement in Piazzale Spadolini, located in the back of the Tiburtina station in Rome, was subject to yet another eviction operation in the presence of various Italian and Roman institutional actors: the Municipality of Rome,...
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Oulx, 9 July 2021 – In the first five months of 2021 (January to May) the small town of Oulx, located on the Italian-French border in the Upper Susa Valley, continued to be an important crossroad of two migratory flows towards France, as already reported by MEDU in previous reports:...
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