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Eight years after the revolt of Rosarno, little or nothing has changed for almost 3,000 migrant workers who have travelled to the Piana di Gioia Tauro this year for the citrus harvesting season. According to the data collected by the mobile clinic of Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU), which is...
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  EXODI 2017 Rome, October 18th, 2017 – Medici per i Diritti Umani /Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) presents EXODI 2017 the new web map on migratory routes from sub-Saharan countries to Europe.  photo NARCISO CONTRERAS EXODI is an interactive map based on 2,600 testimonies collected by Medici per i...
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EXODI 2017 Migratory routes from sub-Saharan countries to Europe The new web map told by migrants Thursday October 5th, at 11 am Sala stampa estera, vie dell’Umiltà 83 Rome 2000 testimonies in almost four years, out of those 1000 just in the last year. Through the stories and video testimonies...
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  OXFAM, MEDU e BORDELINE SICILIA : “ABUSES, TORTURES AND ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENTS IN THE LIBYAN HELL” A new report reveals the brutalities inflicted daily to migrants by local militia, traffickers and criminal gangs Urgent call for the revocation of the Italy- Libya agreement and for a change of direction in...
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In the industrial area of ​​San Ferdinando there are more than 2 thousand migrants encamped in tents, shacks and abandoned buildings who are living and working in disastrous conditions. The Operational Protocol in terms of reception and integration signed almost a year ago at the Prefecture with the Region and...
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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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