Unwelcome Refugees

Two United Nations agencies have called on the European countries to resume rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea and to stop refugee and migrant returns to Libya, where they face dire conditions and are at risk due to the ongoing conflict. The appeal, …

Biometric and digital identity technologies can seriously disrupt the lives of displaced people. Interviewing dozens of migrants and refugees in Europe who fled conflict in East Africa, I was told how minor discrepancies in identity databases can cause bureau…

The 53 migrants and refugees killed in a July 2 airstrike on a detention center in Libya were being held less than 100 yards from a militias arms depot at the time of the attack, a Times investigation has found. The depot had also been struck just two months …

Refugees are being hunted, arrested and forcibly returned to the regime they fled in increasing numbers. The "reasons" for their targeting are multiple, from formalities regarding their documents to accusations of extremism and criminality. There is little se…

Under Klemps direction, the Sea-Watch 3 lowered its two dinghies and began to pull people from the water. As the European vessels stood by, according to Klemp, as well as a video of the scene analyzed by Forensic Architecture, the Libyan coast guard interfere…

Tunisia's coastguard has recovered the bodies of 12 African migrants who drowned when their boat carrying more than 80 people sank after setting off for Europe from neighbouring Libya, the Tunisian Red Crescent has said. A boat carrying at least 86 refugees …

Jérôme, Audrey and Daphné were the first global-warming refugees to be my guests. They stayed in their troglodyte cottage for five days, barely emerging the entire time except for grocery runs. When I moved into my cave, my focus was less on global warming t…

The United Nations Security Council has called on Libya's warring parties to commit to a ceasefire after a deadly air raid on a detention centre for migrants and refugees near the capital, Tripoli.  "The members of the Security Council stressed the need for …

By Raúl Ilargi Meijer, editor of Automatic Earth. Originally published at Automatic Earth How do you define terror? Perhaps, because of the way the term has evolved in the English language, one wouldnt call the west terrorists per se, but we are certainly sp…

The Tajoura detention centre held at least 600 refugees attempting to reach Europe from Liby - REX Migrants who survived the deadly airstrike on a Libyan detention center said Thursday they had been conscripted by a local militia to work in an adjacent weapo…