The opinion column “A Europe United against Refugees”, published after Hungary’s referendum last October 2*, is now available online in in Bulgarian, Croatian, English, French, Greek, Italian,Macedonian, Serb and Spanish.
The Migreurop network’s aim was to reiterate that regimes run by explicitly xenophobic leaders are far from alone in pursuing policies of abuse and pushbacks toward exiles. For more than twenty years, the European Union has supported those policies by promoting external border controls and asylum externalization.
Today, we share Migreurop’s latest work through two information tools addressed to the 'general public' and available to all those wishing to use them:
• 2016 Map of Camps, "Scenes of desolation at EU borders,” in French, English and, for the first time, in Arabic.
Further translations (amongst others in Spanish and Italian) will be published soon.
A public meeting will be held on these issues in Rabat (Morocco) on November 26. This encounter will also allow us to present again the website en.closethecamps.org which offers dynamic mapping of migrant confinement.
For Migreurop and its members, it will be above all an opportunity to remind their demand for the closure of all camps and the respect for freedom of movement and settlement for all.
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* This article was released in the following media outlets:
In English:
Open Democracy, 11 October 2016
New Internationalist (United Kingdom), 13 October 2016
In French:
Libération (France), 5 October 2016
Cridem (Mauritania), 10 October 2016
Jet d’Encre (Switzerland), 15 October 2016
In Spanish :
Blog Migrados of El País (Spain), 20 October 2016