Melilla – der Horror des Grenzregimes
“In dem Versuch, den Zaun am 15.10.2014 zu überwinden zeigten sich die Hillfskräfte und die Guardia Civil besonders brutal gegenüber den Migranten. Fast alle wurden aus Spanien in einer absolut illegalen Art und Weise abgeschoben, Dutzende von Verletzten wurden ebenfalls abgeschoben und dem marokkanischen Militär übergeben.
In dem Video können wir die Aktion dieses Tages sehen. Wir verfolgen die Geschehnisse um eines der Ofper: Danny, Kameruner, 23 Jahre alt, über den wir widersprüchliche Informationen erhalten, ob er noch lebt oder nicht.”
En el intento de salto que tuvo lugar el 15-10-2014 las Fuerzas Auxiliares y la Guardia Civil se emplearon con los inmigrantes con especial dureza. Prácticamente la totalidad de ellos fueron expulsados de España de forma absolutamente ilegal. Decenas de heridos fueron también expulsados y entregados al ejército marroquí.
En el vídeo podemos ver los sucesos de ese día. Hacemos un seguimiento a una de las víctimas: Danny, camerunés, de unos 23 años y del cual recibimos noticias contradictorias en el sentido de que está vivo o que murió.
#melilla #wall #mur #ceuta #guardia_civil #refugees #video #spain #police #violence #migration #danny #Fuerzas_Auxiliares #Asociación_Pro.De.In.
What is it like to be a refugee in #Germany?
▻http://africasacountry.com/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-refugee-in-germany
“Gitmo in Germany?” and “German Abu Ghraib” were two of the headlines across news wires in late September after photos and a video documenting the abuse of Algerian asylum seekers by security officers in an asylum center had circulated. The photo shows a guard standing next to an asylum seeker who is lying on the floor with his hands tied […]
Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country
Photographs and text by
Fabian Muir
▻https://www.lensculture.com/articles/fabian-muir-blue-burqa-in-a-sunburnt-country#slide-1
For Westerners, the burqa is a garment pregnant with symbolism. This series, shot in 2014 during a 10,000 kilometre journey in Australia, seeks to take the symbolism beyond the typical connotations of #sexism and #repression, and into a more #metaphorical_landscape that raises questions of migration, assimilation and belonging. Along the way, the burqa also reveals a luminous, ethereal #beauty one might not normally have expected.
Marrying the burqa with Australia’s severe environment would not seem an obvious choice at first. However, it makes sense for those who are aware of the current Australian government’s strict #anti-immigration policies and handling of #refugees, and indeed the ongoing discussion of a ’burqa ban’ in the country. These faceless, ‘anonymous’ people, who come to Australian shores in search of a new beginning, are either turned away as they arrive or thrust into a harsh, suburnt country. They quickly feel displaced, leading to predictable tensions.
However, despite the sense of isolation in the images, the aesthetic symbiosis between the #burqa and the challenging landscapes hints at a potential for the two worlds to co-exist and even complement each other in ways not imagined. Perhaps #Australia and these ’new Australians’ are not as mismatched as the government and some members of the public seem to think.
The burqa’s journey in this series – whose title is borrowed from Australia’s best-known poem, My Country – surely offers more questions than answers, but ultimately it is intended as a series of hope.
— Fabian Muir
#photo #
Maintenant @cdb_77 en direct à Babylone (RTS Radio 2)
▻http://www.rts.ch/audio/espace-2/3262362-espace-2-en-direct.html?f=player/popup
« Babylone » s’intéresse au projet artistique multidisciplinaire « Con t(r)atto », né des recherches de la géographe Cristina Del Biaggio et du #reportage photographique « Beyond Evros Wall » réalisé en parallèle par Alberto Campi.
Tous deux ont parcouru la route suivie par les migrants de Istanbul à Patras, en passant par Athènes, et en s’arrêtant dans la région de l’#Evros, là où les autorités helléniques ont construit un #mur, espérant arrêter le flux de #migrants.
De retour en #Suisse, Cristina et Alberto ont décidé de collaborer avec Maika Bruni et Stefano Beghi, comédiens et metteurs en scène, afin de créer une exposition photographique vivante capable d’immerger le spectateur dans l’expérience de la #frontière.
En partant de la #Grèce, « con t(r)atto », à travers les acteurs et les images, amène le public à expérimenter dans son intime l’expérience universelle et quotidienne de la frontière. L’exposition considère les #frontières non seulement comme une ligne qui sépare deux entités, mais aussi comme un possible point et espace de rencontres.
En effet, les frontières ne sont pas uniquement des entités fixes, matérielles, linéaires et facilement identifiables comme les cartes géographiques aimeraient nous le faire croire. Elles sont également des entités mobiles, immatérielles, punctiformes ou zonales. (source : unige.ch/sciences-societe)
Reportage avec Clémence Lehec, doctorante au département de Géographie et environnement de lʹUniversité de Genève, chercheuse sur les thèmes de l’art urbain et des frontières dans l’espace israélo-palestinien.
Avec, en direct, la géographe Cristina Del Biaggio.
Une émission de Laurence Froidevaux
#radio #radiotelesuisse #art #refugees #cont(r)atto
Superbe émission cc @intempestive pour que tu l’écoutes. C’est très très bien fait, j’aime bien le calme et l’intelligence des questions de l’animatrice et - mais on va me dire que je suis pas objectifs :) - la manière donc Clémence et Cristina exp)liquent, racontent et vivent leurs recherches et leurs projets. C’est - pour moi en tout cas parce que ce sont des sujets au coeur de mes préoccupations (murs, frontières, palestine, migrants, vulnérabilité) - très, très émouvant.
De la radio comme ça, j’en veux encore plus !
“Saudi Arabia has an extensive border with Syria” — says the White House oops
▻http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/10/background-conference-call-presidents-address-nation
#frontière_imaginaire #maison_blanche #Syrie #Arabie_saoudite
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: I guess I would just add one thing on the coalition question — and I think this is important to really focus on, which is to say, in discussions with governments in the region, notably the Saudis and the Jordanians, what is clear is that we have a very common view of this threat. And this is really quite unusual.
ISIL has been I think a galvanizing threat around the Sunni partners in the region. They view it as an existential threat to them. Saudi Arabia has an extensive border with Syria. The Jordanians are experiencing a destabilizing impact of over a million #refugees from the Syrian conflict, and are profoundly concerned that ISIL, who has stated that their ambitions are not confined to Iraq and Syria, but rather to expand to the broader region.
And what I also heard is that our partners in the Sunni moderate governments in the region agree on the need for a comprehensive strategy. They are quite concerned about the hundreds of foreign fighters flowing into Syria and Iraq from their own countries, and the potential for them to come back to their countries. They’re concerned about the financing. And they’re quite concerned about the, frankly, warped version of Islam; and in fact, it is not Islam that ISIL is promoting. And you saw statements from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the Grand Mufti in Saudi Arabia condemning ISIL.
So what we have here is a galvanizing threat from ISIL that is I think leading our Sunni partners in the region to join us along the range of potential capabilities that my colleague mentioned.
Does #Israel provide its asylum seekers with fake documents in order to sneak them into African countries?
▻http://africasacountry.com/does-israel-provide-its-asylum-seekers-with-fake-documents-in-order
When Israeli activist Dafna Lichtamn got home from Mozambique two months ago, she had a layover in Addis Ababa airport. Walking around the main Ethiopian airport she suddenly ran into an old friend, Sadik Alsadik, an asylum seeker from Darfur who had spent the past five years in Israel. When Lichtman met him it was his […]
Syrian refugees take culture course in Lebanon.
Norway has agreed to give asylum to 1000 Syrian refugees who now are in Lebanon. To prepare them better for a life in Norway they have possibility to attend culture course and experience first culture shock.
14. Syriske flyktninger på kulturkurs i Libanon
NRK TV - Søndagsrevyen - 01.06.2014
▻http://tv.nrk.no/serie/dagsrevyen/NNFA03060114/01-06-2014#t=17m50s
#Norge #asylum #refugees #Syria #Lebanon #asylsøkere #kulturkurs
#Lebanon to strip Syrians of refugee status if they visit home
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-strip-syrians-refugee-status-if-they-visit-home
Syrian #refugees in Lebanon will lose their status as such if they return home for a visit, the interior ministry said Saturday. At the same time, there are calls among political and media figures associated with the Western and Saudi-backed Marched 14 political alliance for deporting those who voted in an election in which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is expected to win. read more
Blaze rips through Syrian #refugee_camp in #Lebanon
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/blaze-rips-through-syrian-refugee-camp-lebanon
A fire ripped through a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley at dawn Saturday, burning down a number of tents but injuring no one, state media reported. It was unclear if the fire at the Jdita refugee camp, a few kilometers southeast of Zahle, was the result of arson or if it was caused by accident. Last year Lebanese residents of the Bekaa town of Qsarnaba burned down a Syrian refugee camp to force the #refugees off the land. But fires and other tragedies have also occurred in camps due to neglect and poor safety standards. read more
Hefty medical expenses hurt Syrian #refugees in #Lebanon : Amnesty
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/hefty-medical-expenses-hurt-syrian-refugees-lebanon-amnesty
Funding shortfalls and medical care gaps in Lebanon are forcing Syrian refugees to forgo treatment, run up huge debts or return to their war-ravaged homeland, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The rights watchdog said the international community bore a large share of the blame because of its “shameful failure” to fully fund UN refugee programs in Lebanon. read more
(Beaucoup de sujets similaires en français en ce moment.) Suite à nos discussions précédentes, on a certainement intérêt à ne pas perdre de vue l’état de l’accès à la santé des populations pauvres au Liban en général : voir par exemple « État » de santé au Liban : une médecine à deux vitesses ?
▻http://ifpo.hypotheses.org/5836
À l’opposé de la médecine high-tech qui fait du Liban une référence valorisée dans tout le Moyen-Orient, Alissar Elias s’est intéressée, elle, à la santé primaire, à travers une étude sur les centres de soins et les dispensaires dans la ville d’El-Mina, l’une des municipalités les plus pauvres du pays (zone portuaire de Tripoli). Son approche « par le bas » permet de saisir de manière très empirique les différentes voies d’accès à la santé des populations précaires, parmi lesquelles de nombreux travailleurs étrangers, des déplacés et des réfugiés. S’il est vrai que les habitants des quartiers informels et squattés ne connaissent pas la même qualité de soins que les autres citoyens libanais, les structures de santé primaire restent relativement accessibles à des tarifs modestes (5 000 à 10 000 LL la consultation), grâce notamment aux réseaux d’ONG, d’associations religieuses et confessionnelles mais aussi d’initiatives conduites par un certain nombre de « militants de la santé » engagés dans des opérations de médecine communautaire. Par exemple, des élus municipaux de Tripoli et d’El-Mina, exerçant des professions médicales (généralistes, pédiatres, gynécologues, pharmaciens, etc.) acceptent de faire des consultations gratuites ou de fournir des médicaments à prix réduits. Au Liban, malgré le règne de la « santé de marché », il existe des formes de solidarité qui contribuent à réduire la « fracture socio-sanitaire ». Il n’en reste pas moins que ces modes de prise en charge sanitaire des populations précaires relèvent très largement de logiques de charité qui ne réduisent que partiellement et temporairement les inégalités d’accès aux soins, confortant ainsi le caractère dual du système de santé libanais.
Sinon, parmi les aspects scandaleux dénoncés par Amnesty :
Others have opted to return to Syria to buy cheaper medicine or seek treatment, despite the risks in doing so.
Je n’ai pas cherché de données exactes, mais j’ai plusieurs fois entendu que beaucoup de Libanais allaient chercher leurs médicaments en Syrie avant la guerre. Aux débuts de la guerre en Syrie, quelqu’un m’avait même fait remarquer qu’une des conséquences allait être que les Libanais eux-mêmes n’allaient plus pouvoir profiter des prix bas sur les médicaments syriens.
#Syria update: European countries who have pledged to offer resettlement/humanitarian admission to #Syrian #refugees pic.twitter.com/qJeU6vqESD
▻https://twitter.com/UNHCRIreland/status/464806260131766274/photo/1
#Syrie #réfugié #asile #migration #Europe #accueil #carte #infographie #visualisation
#HRW condemns #Lebanon for blocking entry to #Palestinian #refugees from #syria
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/hrw-condemns-lebanon-deporting-palestinian-refugees-syria
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday criticized Lebanon for refusing entry to Palestinians from Syria and forcibly returning them to the war-torn country. It accused Beirut of “arbitrarily” denying Palestinians entry and documented the deportation of around 40 Palestinians accused of having forged documents. The Lebanese government has not announced a blanket ban on the entry of Palestinians from Syria, but government sources confirm a general policy to keep out Palestinians fleeing the conflict. read more
#Lebanon arrests 49 #refugees at Beirut airport over fake documents
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-arrests-49-refugees-beirut-airport-over-fake-documents
Authorities at Beirut’s international airport detained 49 Syrian and #Palestinian refugees Saturday who had attempted to travel on forged documents, Lebanon’s General Security said. Those arrested were all refugees from #syria trying to fly to an unspecified Arab country, according to the statement carried by Lebanon’s National News Agency. The statement added no further details of the incident, but warned refugees of the Syrian war, who number over one million in Lebanon, that Syrian and Palestinian law breakers would be “brought to justice.” (Al-Akhbar)
Officials rescue 300 migrants left for dead in Sudanese-Libyan desert
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/officials-rescue-300-migrants-left-dead-sudanese-libyan-desert
Ten migrants have died among some 300 abandoned by smugglers in the scorching Sudanese-Libyan desert, with the others in poor condition, Sudanese officials said Wednesday. “They are hungry and thirsty,” Abdelaziz Hassan Salih, a senior official of #Sudan's foreign ministry, told the official SUNA news agency. A human trafficking gang “ordered them to get down from their vehicles”, Salih said. Traffickers often abandon undocumented migrants after receiving their fees. “They only care about money,” Salih said. read more
#African_immigrants #Eritrea #Ethiopia #Libya #refugees #Top_News
Syrians begin arriving at new #Jordan refugee camp
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syrians-begin-arriving-new-jordan-refugee-camp
The United Nations said on Monday Jordan’s third refugee camp, Azraq, had received its first group of Syrians ahead of its official opening later this week. “A few hundred Syrian #refugees started to arrive in Azraq camp this morning,” Ali Bibi, spokesman for the UN refugee agency UNHCR in Jordan, told AFP. He added that the official inauguration of the camp will be on Wednesday. UNHCR representative in the kingdom Andrew Harper tweeted that “while official opening of Azraq camp is on the 30th, the first 200 arrived this am.” read more
#turkey pledges to keep borders open to Syrian #refugees
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/turkey-pledges-keep-borders-open-syrian-refugees
The number of #Syrian_refugees in Turkey has reached “almost one million,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, while pledging to keep accepting those fleeing the war. “Are we supposed to ask our brothers not to come, and to die in #syria?” Erdogan said as he addressed his party’s lawmakers in parliament. The three-year conflict in Syria has sent millions fleeing to neighboring countries and beyond. read more
Iraqi #refugees in #syria: Between a rock and a hard place
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/iraqi-refugees-syria-between-rock-and-hard-place
A file picture taken on March 6, 2014 shows displaced Iraqis, who fled their hometown of Fallujah due to unrest between government forces and militants in the flashpoint Anbar province, west of #Baghdad, walking in the Kurdish town of Shaqlawa, 45 kilometers north of Arbil, where they sought refugee. (Photo: AFP-Safin Hamed) A file picture taken on March 6, 2014 shows displaced Iraqis, who fled their hometown of Fallujah due to unrest between government forces and militants in the flashpoint Anbar province, west of Baghdad, walking in the Kurdish town of Shaqlawa, 45 kilometers north of Arbil, where they sought refugee. (Photo: AFP-Safin Hamed)
Since 2003, the largest refugee population in the region – other than the (...)
#Culture_&_Society #Articles #Beirut #Damascus #Iraq #Jordan #Lebanon #UNHCR
Lebanese Patriarch: Syrian #refugees should remain in #syria
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/19361
The head of #Lebanon's Maronite Christian Church suggested on Wednesday that Syrian refugees should be housed in camps inside Syria. The United Nations has registered 1 million refugees in Lebanon since the conflict began three years ago, the highest concentration of refugees worldwide. They are housed in homes and local communities rather than refugee camps. Cardinal #Beshara_al-Rai, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, told a news conference in Geneva that the presence of so many Syrians represented a huge economic, social, political and security burden for Lebanon. read more
Jordanian security forces kill Syrian refugee in Zaatari camp clashes
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/jordanian-security-forces-kill-syrian-refugee-zaatari-camp-clashe
At least one Syrian refugee was killed in #Jordan's sprawling Zaatari camp when hundreds of #refugees clashed with security forces, residents said on Saturday. They said scores of refugees in the sprawling camp close to the Syrian border were injured as baton-wielding anti-riot police used tear gas to disperse stone-throwing refugees who set fire to official offices and caravans. read more
New productive ventures a third option for Syrian #refugees
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/new-productive-ventures-third-option-syrian-refugees
Syrian refugees wait their turn at a #UNHCR (United Nations Refugee Agency) registration center, one of many across #Lebanon, in the northern port city of Tripoli on April 3, 2014.(Photo: Joseph Eid) Syrian refugees wait their turn at a UNHCR (United Nations Refugee Agency) registration center, one of many across Lebanon, in the northern port city of Tripoli on April 3, 2014.(Photo: Joseph Eid)
With the crisis in #syria entering its fourth year, most Lebanese politicians now agree that the huge number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon constitutes what they call an “existential threat.” But the solutions they have proposed to mitigate it, such as providing aid and building camps, do not address the core problem. (...)
#Culture_&_Society #Articles #Charbel_Nahhas #Gibran_Bassil #Michel_Suleiman #Rashid_Derbas
Registered Syrian #refugees in #Lebanon passes 1 million mark
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/registered-syrian-refugees-lebanon-passes-1-million-mark
A Syrian man, with his wife and children, poses on a motorcycle nearby a refugee camp in the city of Ersal in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley on March 28, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Joseph Eid)
The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing war in their country has surpassed one million, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday. Refugees from #syria, half of them children, now equal a quarter of Lebanon’s resident population, the #UNHCR said in a statement, warning that most of them live in poverty and depend on aid for survival. The UN agency said the figure is “a devastating milestone worsened by rapidly depleting resources and a host community stretched to breaking point”. read (...)
#UN: Syrian mother’s self-immolation highlights desperation of #refugees
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/un-syrian-mothers-self-immolation-highlights-desperation-refugees
A UN official said a Syrian refugee in #Lebanon who doused herself with petrol and set herself alight after her aid was cut was a victim of a lack of funding for the world body’s work. The millionth Syrian refugee will register in Lebanon on Thursday, the UN refugee agency says, adding to the strain on a county of only 4 million which is struggling to stop the war from flooding into its territory. read more
Syrian refugee jailed for fleeing to the #Netherlands
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syrian-refugee-jailed-fleeing-netherlands
A Syrian refugee family from Aleppo stays under a shelter during a rainy day on March 8, 2014, at Uskudar in Istanbul. (Photo: AFP - Bulent Kilic)
A Syrian refugee who survived the tragedy in Lampedusa in October 2013 was jailed for six months Wednesday after he fled #Malta illegally. Omar Younes, 23, managed to flee Malta illegally on a boat and made it to the Netherlands where he was detained and sent back to Malta. He was one of the 200 migrants who survived the shipwreck 60 nautical miles south of Lampedusa on October 12. An estimated 200 migrants are believed to have perished in the tragedy. Of the surviving migrants, 143 were taken to Malta while 56 were taken to Lampedusa. read (...)
UN urges nations to take in 100,000 Syrian #refugees
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18732
The UN refugee agency on Friday urged countries outside the Middle East to open their doors to 100,000 Syrians who need to find a haven outside their conflict-struck region. The call from the United Nations high commissioner for refugees follows an earlier appeal to developed countries to grant a new home to 30,000 of the most vulnerable Syrians driven from their country. With no sign of an end to the brutal three-year conflict between the regime of Bashar al-Assad and rebel forces, tens of thousands more will need help in the near future, it said. read more