With winter approaching, hundreds of migrants in transit- many of them minors- are sleeping out in the open, on the sidewalks, asphalt, under overpasses, in precarious conditions with grave risks to their safety and health. It is a an unsustainable situation. Not to intervene would be a negligence of our...
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The interactive web map is built on the testimonies of 1.000 migrants from Eritrea, Gambia, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Sudan and other Sub-Saharan Countries. Five major routes are described from West Africa and the Horn of Africa to Europe passing through Algeria, Libya and Egypt. Among the factors...
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EXODI. Migratory Routes from Sub-Saharan Countries to Europe The web map told by migrants Tuesday, September 13th 2016 – 11:00 am Sala Stampa Estera, via dell’Umiltà 83/c-Rome EXODI is an interactive web map built on the testimonies of 1.000 migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa collected in nearly three years of activity...
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The Centres of Special Reception for Asylum Seekers and the experience in Ragusa (Sicily) Rome, April 27th 2016 – Although the Centres of Special Reception for Asylum Seekers (CAS) are defined as “temporary and extraordinary structures”, they represent, for some years now, the backbone of the reception system in Italy,...
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Dear European Leaders: As international organisations working directly with refugees and migrants in Europe, we ask European Member States present at the European Council meeting of 17th and 18th March 2016 to take the opportunity to come together in solidarity and conclude bold, unified and decisive policies to address the...
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““86% of the migrants working in agriculture don’t have an employment contract, more than half of them is sleeping on the ground, living without water, electricity and hygienic services” Rosarno, 17 December 2015 – Despite the commitment proclaimed by the Government to defeat the phenomenon of caporalato (illegal hiring) and...
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On 14 October 2015, Israeli security forces started implementing movement restrictions throughout East Jerusalem. Over twenty roads are currently blocked by concrete barricades and fourteen military checkpoints, delaying patient arrivals, medical teams and evacuations to Al-Hilal, Al-Makassed, Al-Amira Basma, Al-Mutla, Saint-John and Saint-Joseph hospitals. According to the Palestine Red Crescent...
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Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-IL): PHR-Israel: Over forty incidents against medical teams in the West Bank and Jerusalem reported in the past two weeks With the recent escalation of violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank, these last weeks have seen an increase in the number of reports...
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Migratory Routes from Sub-Saharan Countries to Europe Rome, August 10, 2015 – Too often in Italy the arrival of migrants and refugees is perceived as “the” invasion “of a blurred crowd. Statements such as “let’s help them in their country” or its more xenophobic variant “They have to remain in...
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August 2015 A short visit on board MEDUs mobile clinic “Camper per i diritti” in Rome, where volunteers and staff provide medical care and collect testimony of forced migrants. For more informations see the project Un camper per i diritti