Human Rights and Migration

Human Rights: None of your business?1
- Human Rights and Migration, International Trade, Op-ed
- 11/11/2016
Have you heard of the latest steps towards an International Treaty on Business and Human Rights?
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The challenge of integrating refugees into host countries’ labour markets 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed, Social and Economic Policy
- 07/11/2016
In 2015, over 1.3 million people requested asylum in EU, representing more than double the number of applicants in 2014. During the first quarter of 2016, the number of persons seeking asylum from non-EU countries in the EU reached 287.100. The arrival of such an unprecedented number of asylum seekers poses an important challenge to the European Union and its Member States, that goes further than the humanitarian level and introduces the problem of socio-economic integration of the newly arrived refugees into their host countries.
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Why are we neglecting refugee women and children?0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 18/10/2016
Calais and Nauru. Two places in the world that could not be further from each other, both in distance and culture. However, there is one dark similarity that mirrors these two distinctly different regions; the astonishing human dumping ground that their governments have created within them. Dumping grounds we commonly refer to as refugee camps.
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Erdogan’s purge and the rule of law 0
- Human Rights and Migration, International Relations and Global Affairs, Op-ed
- 26/09/2016
At the heart of the latest attempted military coup is the role the Turkish people played in quashing the coup.
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UN Summit: Time to name and shame 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 19/09/2016
The outcome of the summit is predetermined and set to disappoint since it establishes no new obligation on member states.
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Calling for a right to resettlement ahead of UN refugee summit 1
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 17/09/2016
During a meeting on how to manage refugees’ expectations, I was reprimanded by my superiors for adding to my introduction in resettlement interviews with refugees that there is no recognized right to resettlement. This is certainly not a shock to most people, but it was a shock to the people I interviewed. It certainly made them upset to hear it. My superiors said it was cruel. Working for a small aid organization, we turned down many in need refugees asking for financial, legal, and medical assistance, and yet none of that was deemed cruel.
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