Migrants

Bahrain: Migrant Workers Denied Pay, Right to Travel

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:43:47 -0800

(New York) - Bahrain's Labor Ministry should hold employers who withhold wages and passports from migrant employees accountable, Human Rights Watch said today. Both practices are illegal under Bahraini law, but authorities do little to enforce compliance.

No Refuge

Human Rights Watch — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:09:00 -0800

No Refuge

Migrants in Greece

Introduction

Secret Expulsions at the Border

Caught at Sea

No Refuge

Human Rights Watch — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:09:00 -0800

Lost in Transit

Human Rights Watch — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:45:00 -0700

In this 60-page report, Human Rights Watch concludes that France's system of detaining and deporting unaccompanied migrant children who arrive in Paris by air puts them at serious risk.

Greece: Escalating Risks for Migrants, Unaccompanied Children

Human Rights Watch — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:52:00 -0700

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, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

Compassion has to work too for boat people in distress

Bill Frelick — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:37:22 -0700

Washington - 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.

Returned to Risk

Human Rights Watch — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:40:00 -0700

Returned to Risk

Deportation of HIV-Positive Migrants

Summary

Introduction

International Law

Returned to Risk

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:32:25 -0700

This 27-page report was prepared by Human Rights Watch, Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, the European AIDS Treatment Group, and the African HIV Policy Network.

Deporting HIV-Positive Migrants Threatens Lives, Global Goals

Human Rights Watch — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:32:25 -0700

(London) - National governments, in cooperation with international agencies and donors, should reconsider deportation policies for people living with HIV/AIDS, four HIV/AIDS and human rights groups said in a report released today.

Italy-Libya Connection

Michael Glennon — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:20:44 -0700

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.