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Detention centre guards in Malta taunted migrant detainees in Malta, with one asylum seeker claiming that guards urged desperate and suicidal migrants to &ldquo
Newsbook Twitter / Open Arms Francesco Gentico 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. The 35-page report, – A woman from Cote d’Ivoire told the agency how she went from being raped in Lib...
Hundreds dying at sea is not a “tragic anomaly” but rather is a result of the policies of the EU, its members and other actors trying to push responsibilities for migrants onto one another, a report by the UN rights office says.
The United Nations urged Libya and the EU to overhaul their search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, saying current practices robbed migrants of their lives, rights and dignity. A UN Human Rights Office report on SAR operations and the protection of migrants in the central Mediterranean found that policies and practices "fail to prioritise the lives, safety and human rights of people attempting to cross from Africa to Europe. The report, released Wednesday, said evidence suggested that the lack of human rights protections was "not a tragic anomaly, but rather a consequence of co...