refugees

cruel and inhumane punishment

The Twelves Days of the International Criminal Court

A song which does not scan, for a world in […]

immigration

Watching those who watch the sea… Italy’s war on the rescue boats of the Mediterranean

It takes about 60 seconds to drown, and it hurts. […]

Kachin

Myanmar, genocide

Last week 84 Rohingya, Kachin and Karen Groups called on France to ensure the UN Security Council refers Myanmar to the International Criminal Court for genocide against Rohingya in Rakhine […]

Australia

A Nauru Christmas Story

In the season when nativity play audiences in schools across Christendom are charmed by subversive innkeepers veering off-script to tell Joseph and Mary there is room at the inn after […]

challenging racism

The wrong sort of refugees

In May a Malian asylum seeker climbed the outside of a Parisian apartment block to rescue a child from certain death, and was immediately granted asylum. We shouldn’t be surprised […]

Australia

Where Christmas doesn’t sparkle

There’s a story they like to tell in December, about people seeking hospitality in a city that wasn’t their home. A powerful man, hearing a rumour that the old order […]

Children's Rights

Libya, slavery and the EU

CNN’s exposure of migrant slave markets in Libya should be no surprise to anyone, as the UN Libyan Support Mission (UNSMIL)’s April report to the Security Council stated migrants were […]

Human Rights

Who should take the world’s refugees?

The debate on what we, and the rest of the world, should do about the forced displacement of 1 in 14 of the world’s population is increasingly polarised. Arguments become angry. This is […]

Aung San Suu Kyi

No prizes for peace in Myanmar

As Malala and Desmond Tutu plead with Aung San Suu Kyi to say something useful about the Nazi-style atrocities being committed against the Rohingya, she blames “terrorists” for “a huge […]

Human Rights

Italy beyond the pale

Theresa May holidayed in Italy this summer. One wonders whether she noticed the 95,000 asylum seekers who also travelled there this year, a little less comfortably. If she wonders why so […]

Australia

Boris Johnson, Asylum Seekers and Oz

Boris Johnson, aka the Blond Wombat, thrilled Australia in July by (reportedly) delivering the funniest ever speech by a visiting politician (how we have risen in the world!). One wonders […]

Australia

Australia and the Nauru Files

Those who think that blatant human rights violations are confined to despots and dictators may be surprised by Australia, whose stranded boat people face a further loss of hope […]

Human Rights

Genocide in Myanmar

AUNG SUNG Suu Kyi has fallen from grace more spectacularly than most. As her army continues violent ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the formerly saintly one […]

Human Rights

UK suspends admission of disabled child refugees

Less than six months since it was meant to begin, […]

afghanistan

The end of the Dubs amendment is more bad news for Afghanistan’s wandering children, no longer welcome anywhere. Over 50,000 unaccompanied Afghan children sought asylum in Europe in 2015-16, although […]

Children's Rights

The Jungle Children

Write to your MP. Dear Rt Honourable Member At the time of writing, the UK has managed to take in only about 300 children from the Calais migrant camp. By […]

Doctors Against Torture

justice can't be rationed

refugees

The Twelves Days of the International Criminal Court

Watching those who watch the sea… Italy’s war on the rescue boats of the Mediterranean

Myanmar, genocide

A Nauru Christmas Story

The wrong sort of refugees

Where Christmas doesn’t sparkle

Libya, slavery and the EU

Who should take the world’s refugees?

No prizes for peace in Myanmar

Italy beyond the pale

Boris Johnson, Asylum Seekers and Oz

Australia and the Nauru Files

Genocide in Myanmar

UK suspends admission of disabled child refugees

Wandering Afghan Children

The Jungle Children