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Three non-governmental organisations said Tuesday (25 May) they are suing the EU's border protection agency Frontex for violating the human rights of an unaccompanied minor from Burundi and a Congolese woman seeking asylum on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Olivér Várhelyi, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, and Kinga Gál, an MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, addressed a debate at a plenary session of the European Parliament about a report on human rights protection and the EU’s external migration policy, in Brussels on Tuesday. The principles of the EU’s new migration package are clear, Várhelyi said in the debate, adding that the EU aimed to strengthen its partnership with third countries outside the bloc and promote the rights of immigrants entering its territory in a sustainable way. “These components fo...
May 4, 2021 Share As the waves pounded the gray rubber boat carrying more than 100 Africans hoping to reach Europe from Libya, those aboard dialed the number for migrants in distress frantically. In the series of calls to the Alarm Phone hotline, passengers explained that the dinghy had run out of fuel while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea and was quickly filling up with water and panic. On the other end of the line, activists tried to keep the migrants calm as they relayed the boat’s GPS coordinates repeatedly to Italian, Maltese and Libyan authorities and later to Frontex, t...
Deaths at sea highlight failings in Europe migration policy RENATA BRITO and SAMY MAGDY, Associated Press May 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 18 1of18In this undated family handout photo, 24-year-old Mohammed Abdel-Khaliq from Sudan is seen posing for a picture. Abdel-Khaliq is believed to be among more than 100 migrants and refugees to have died when their rubber boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya on April 21, 2021. When they called repeatedly for help in late April, a rescue never came. It was the deadliest wreck so far this year in the Mediterranean Sea and has ren...
Renata Brito And Samy Magdy Saadia Ahmed, mother of the Sudanese migrant Mutawakel Ali, sits with her daughters at her home, in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday April 30, 2021. Ali narrowly missed drowning in Libya because he was late for the boatâs departure. The rubber boat when on to sink at sea on approximately April 21, and its more than 100 passengers drowned. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali) May 04, 2021 - 2:04 AM CAIRO - As the waves pounded the gray rubber boat carrying more than 100 Africans hoping to reach Europe from Libya, those aboard dialed the number for migrants ...