Municipalities in Lebanon have forcibly evicted at least 3,664 Syrian refugees from their homes and expelled them, apparently because of their nationality or religion, while another 42,000 refugees remain at risk of eviction.
Mass Evictions of Syrian Refugees by Lebanese Municipalities
Grant Access to Asylum Procedures; Hold Abusers Accountable
LGBT Activism in the Middle East and North Africa
Despite state-sponsored repression and social stigma LGBT people in the Middle East and North Africa are finding ways to speak out and combat discrimination.
Metal towers of lights reached out of the sea and flames belched into the midnight sky as the Aquarius reached Bouri Field, the largest oilfield in the Mediterranean, about 65 nautical miles north of Libya. I had been sitting cross-legged on deck of this rescue ship, listening to a group of West African men telling unbearable stories of captivity and brutality in Libya, the country they had just fled. Amadou concluded, to earnest nods all around, “God left Libya a long time ago.”
“What will happen to us?” “Will they fingerprint us?” was the constant refrain as we watched a human wave of asylum seekers and migrants from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan crossing the Serbia-Hungary border.
