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A damning report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) sheds light on how migrants are treated by Maltese authorities, at sea and on land.
While one man was told “there is no Europe for you today,” other migrants recounted how detention guards in Malta goaded them to commit suicide. Others recounted how they were forced to drink water from toilets and the excessive use of force by security forces.
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A woman from Cote d’Ivoire told the agency how she went from being raped in Libya to being detained in inhumane conditions in Malta.
As over 50 refugees drown, UN condemns EU’s Mediterranean migrant policy
More than 50 refugees drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe last week. The mass drowning is the latest such disaster this year, produced directly by the anti-migrant policies of the European Union (EU).
In another demonstration of the illegality of the EU’s refugee policy, the United Nations human rights commission handed down a report yesterday, branding the EU as jointly responsible for causing hundreds of entirely preventable deaths in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year, and thousands in the years before.
A woman holds a 3 month old baby as migrants and refugees from different African nationalities wait for assistance on an overcrowded rubber boat, as aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms approach themv. (AP Photo/Bruno Thevenin)
Supporting longer term development in crises at the nexus: Lessons from Cameroon
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Executive summary
This Cameroon country report contributes to a multi-country study1 focusing on the role of development actors in addressing people’s longer term needs, risks and vulnerabilities, and supporting operationalisation of the humanitarian–development–peace (HDP) nexus.
This is pertinent to the Covid-19 response, involving both immediate lifesaving assistance and longer term support for health systems, socioeconomic impacts and peacebuilding.2 Experience in Cameroon can inform global policy and practice for several reasons.
Cameroon moved from a position of stability to three concurrent crises in the last five years, providing a learning opportunity for development actors adapting to deepening crises. It featured in an Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s (IASC) study on financing the nexus,3 presenting opportunities to build on these findings. Cameroon is a priority count