Human Rights and Migration

Justice denied: Voiceless in Guantanamo 4
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 22/02/2019
No charge, no trial, no conviction; only hours of torture and interrogation. The Guantanamo Bay Detention Center is a “secret” prison where kidnappings, forced disappearances and degrading prison conditions makes lives of detainees, a living hell. Prisoner rights are mostly not a popular topic of debate. But, can rights be called so if they can be dismissed so effortlessly?
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Matera Capital of Culture 2019: an ‘open future’ with closed ports?0
- EU Governance and Politics, Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 11/02/2019
On January 19th 2019, Matera’s cave-dwelling districts, better known as “Sassi”, opened up to national and international guests and musicians for the celebration of its title as 2019 European Capital of Culture (ECOC).
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Should the EU care about civic and political opposition in Hungary?0
- EU Governance and Politics, Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 30/01/2019
It became almost impossible to pretend that Hungary is still a democracy. The autocratic tendencies of Orban’s regime are difficult to counteract without strengthening the existent civic and political opposition that is being intimidated by the police state.
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The Devil’s Duplicates: The trouble twins of Madagascar 8
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 28/01/2019
You might be surprised to learn that the village of Mananjary in Madagascar believes its twins are cursed and carry misfortune.
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The invisible people 0
- Human Rights and Migration
- 04/12/2018
Usually when the question of how welcoming a country’s attitude towards refugees is raised, people look at the relation between proportion of accepted and rejected asylum seekers. But the destiny of those rejected is rarely featured in the mass media. What happens to them?
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Migrants without protection = Humanitarian principles at risk 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 14/11/2018
In the last few years, tens of thousands of people have left their homes and crossed the Mediterranean Sea. The media is constantly publishing stories of drowning migrants and of the harsh conditions of detention centres in Southern Europe. At the same time, the attitude towards migration has hardened in many European countries. Countries like Italy, Austria and Hungary have shown that there is very little humanity left.
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