News: Migrants
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  • Nov 19, 2009
    Journal Article
  • Nov 9, 2009

    The Lebanese government should investigate the deaths of eight migrant domestic workers during October, 2009, as well as the reasons for the disproportionately high death rate among this group of workers.

    Press release
  • Nov 4, 2009

    Bahrain's Labor Ministry should hold employers who withhold wages and passports from migrant employees accountable.

    Press release
  • Oct 12, 2009

    The European Union should press the newly elected Greek government to end the abusive detention and summary expulsions of migrants, including unaccompanied children, and to reform the country's broken asylum system.

    Press release
  • Sep 28, 2009

    The return of one man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing to Libya, where he got a hero's welcome, has caused an international outcry while the return of hundreds of boat migrants to Libya, where they face certain detention and probable brutal mistreatment, causes nary a peep.

    Commentary
  • Sep 23, 2009

    National governments, in cooperation with international agencies and donors, should reconsider deportation policies for people living with HIV/AIDS.

    Press release
  • Sep 23, 2009

    African immigrants who attempt the dangerous boat journey across the Mediterranean to Italy face a double dose of hardship. Since May, if their vessels are intercepted by the Italian authorities, they have been summarily returned to Libya, where migrants typically suffer widespread mistreatment.

    Commentary
  • Sep 8, 2009

    Labor Day? Let's be real. The last thing on our minds this weekend is labor rights. Whether we're fortunate enough to have a job or worrying about how to get one in today's economy, we'll focus more on this summer's last hurrah than on the Tuesday- morning-after travails.

    Commentary
  • Aug 23, 2009

    An estimated 150 unaccompanied migrant children being held in a detention center on Lesvos Island were on a hunger strike for four days to protest their living conditions.

    Press release
  • Jul 31, 2009

    The European Commission's pressure on Italy to report on its forced - and reportedly brutal - return of migrants to Libya is welcome. But the statement by Jacques Barrot, the Commission's vice-president, that these were isolated incidents unlikely to be repeated, because the Libya-Italy agreement will mean "fewer illegal migrants coming in", is cause for concern.  

    Commentary
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