BREAKING: @europarl.europa.eu LIBE committee
greenlights punitive detention and deportation plans.
Parliament’s position follows chaotic & rushed negotiations with a new text presented by @eppgroup.bsky.social just days ago that lacks adequate scrutiny, consultations or human rights assessments.
An excellent analysis, highly recommended
Authorities in Aotearoa New Zealand are subjecting people in the Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati at risk of climate related harm to discriminatory migration policies that tear families apart and disregard children’s rights. Read the full story at this link
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Chilling realpolitik: in a meeting at the White House in August "Trump agreed to take mass enforced displacement [of Palestinians from Gaza] off the agenda" of diplomatic negotiations. AS IF forced displacement were not a crime against humanity
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
@amnesty.org : Deliberately inflicting yet another devastating wave of mass displacement in Gaza amidst this suffering is not just inhumane, it is a flagrant violation of international law. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
EU/Libya: Alarming escalation of attacks threatening the safety of humanitarian NGO rescuers and those they are rescuing in the Mediterranean🧵
Amnesty International will be launching next week its first report on climate displacement. To hear about the human rights challenges faced by nationals of Tuvalu and Kiribati who move to Aotearoa New Zealand, please join our virtual press briefing on 8 / 9 October
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The US has both the international and domestic tools to address the concerns it has raised, without undermining or overturning the multilateral agreements or weakening protections for refugees. The agenda behind this proposal goes far beyond "fixing" the asylum system
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
The US proposal would also increase the chasm between Global North and Global South countries, as middle- and low-income countries in the Global South continue carrying most of the responsibility for the world’s refugees.
Beyond the "common sense" talk, the US proposal would severely curtail the ability of refugees to seek protection. It would have a particularly detrimental impact on poor and racialised people from the Global South, who travel by land and would be blocked in regions with poor protection systems
Refugees and asylum seekers often need to continue their journey because the country of their first entry is not safe. For example: both Iran and Pakistan (neighbouring countries) are currently returning Afghans to Afghanistan, including women and girls at risk of gender persecution
The only truly new point is requiring asylum seekers to seek asylum in the first country of entry. Although most refugees and asylum seekers already stay in the country of first entry (mainly in middle- and low- income countries in the Global South) this is not currently an obligation
The 5 points of the US proposal:
1. States have a “right” to control their borders.
2. Asylum seekers to seek asylum in first country of entry.
3. Asylum is a temporary status.
4. States decide whether conditions allow returns.
5. States to receive back their own nationals.
This is the link to watch the Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau host the panel “Global Refugee Asylum System: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It” - New York City at 1:50 p.m. ET today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfV3...
Would the plan really "reshape the global approach to asylum"? No. It would reinforce and amplify a decade-long trend: Global North countries refusing their fair share of the responsibility for the world's refugees, and shifting that responsibility on low- and middle- income Global South countries.
Fact-check 2: Asylum is not meant to be permanent. Most asylum systems already include procedures for the host country to regularly check whether conditions in the country of origin have changed.
Fact-check 1: The vast majority of refugees and asylum-seekers worldwide stay in the first country they enter. According to UNHCR, 67% live in countries neighbouring their countries of origin; and 73% are hosted in low- and middle-income countries
www.unhcr.org/uk/about-unh...
According to Reuters, the plan would call for
1. Requiring asylum seekers to claim protection in the first country they enter
2. Making asylum temporary
The ambition would be to "reshape the global approach to asylum"
What to make of the Trump administration's plans to call for a revision of the global refugee system? A thread
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Only the US outsourcing its FP to white supremacist bikers…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The best analysis on current migration policies I have read all summer, applicable not only to the UK but also to most EU countries. Cheap political manipulation produces misinformation, fueling increasing draconian and ineffective anti-migration measures
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is UNHCR's chief Filippo Grandi advocating for a better global protection system for refugees - or is he advocating for more money to the agency? Further proof, if any were needed, of the clash between UNHCR protection and assistance mandates
While the world is burning and Gaza is starving, the UK government is intent on demonizing an underclass of workers whose exploitation is created by the government's own migration and asylum policies.
It has been described as a ‘game-changer for human rights’, but what does the #ICJ Advisory Opinion issued overnight signal for #refugees and other people displaced in the context of #climate change? @profjmcadam.bsky.social finds some answers: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
"That the Home Office sent a removal letter to an eleven-year-old is not a clerical error. It is the system working as designed." @nandosigona.bsky.social on the UK migration system intentionally splitting families apart
theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
Very concerning.
I have an idea.
Two, in fact.
Give asylum seekers the right to work.
And increase the restrictions to betting shops. (Or close them down, ideally.)
Excellent analysis of the new Greek asylum ban by Minos Mouzourakis @rsaegean.org bit.ly/46c2TXi
🔴La Cour nationale du droit d’asile (CNDA) vient de reconnaître le statut de réfugié aux Palestinien·nes de Gaza.
The global asylum system is falling apart, says @economist.com. Indeed. What should replace it? More of the same? A new system cannot be imagined without a proper analysis of the colonial roots of this one - and efforts to dismantle them.
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
Amnesty says Cambodia is enabling brutal scam industry reut.rs/4liRCbW
