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AYS Special: Missing Asylum-Seeking Children, UK Home Office at fault
AYS Special: Missing Asylum-Seeking Children, UK Home Office at fault
In the first of the Are You Syrious Christmas Specials, we share a detailed article prompted by reports at the beginning of the year of…
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Dec 23, 2023
AYS Special: A new Search and Rescue NGO’s First Season in the Central Mediterranean
AYS Special: A new Search and Rescue NGO’s First Season in the Central Mediterranean
Annual Report 2023 by MARE*GO, LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND and GREEN Licata, Italy 10.12.2023
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Dec 26, 2023
AYS Special: Talking Palestine in Croatia
AYS Special: Talking Palestine in Croatia
On the actions and importance of local solidarity movements, in a story about a group in Croatia gathering diverse and strong voices in…
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Jan 7
AYS Special: “You forced me to claim asylum”. Baltic Pushbacks, a Personal Story
AYS Special: “You forced me to claim asylum”. Baltic Pushbacks, a Personal Story
A personal account of a journey to the EU, told with the help of Sienos Grupe.
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Dec 29, 2023
AYS Special - Hello, I need food: What the media isn’t telling you about Greece.
AYS Special - Hello, I need food: What the media isn’t telling you about Greece.
From the Aegean islands to the Evros border to the streets of Greek cities people on the move are struggling to find enough to eat and…
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Oct 1, 2023
AYS Special: Rising Abductions of Baloch Women and Human Rights Abuses in Pakistan
AYS Special: Rising Abductions of Baloch Women and Human Rights Abuses in Pakistan
Amnesty International called for the end to enforced disappearances and the suppression of protests in Balochistan but has anything…
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Mar 5, 2023
AYS Special: The Black Book of Pushbacks
AYS Special: The Black Book of Pushbacks
The Black Book of Pushbacks, produced by the Border Violence Monitoring Network with support of the Left in the European Parliament…
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Jan 5, 2023
AYS Special: Climate change and migration
AYS Special: Climate change and migration
Climate change is quite obviously negatively impacting the lives of people in the global south. This Special looks at legal definitions…
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Dec 31, 2022
AYS Special from Greece: The Eye —An asylum-seeker’s account on pushbacks and life in Samos Refugee…
AYS Special from Greece: The Eye —An asylum-seeker’s account on pushbacks and life in Samos Refugee…
‘The Eye’ is a collection of short articles written by S., a resident of the Samos Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC). Due to fear of…
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Dec 29, 2022
AYS Special: Happy Christmas and welcome to the streets
AYS Special: Happy Christmas and welcome to the streets
As 2022 draws to a close so does the ESTIA program in Greece leaving single mothers with babies on the street.
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Dec 27, 2022
AYS Special: Dunkirk, France — Roots reflection on the year
AYS Special: Dunkirk, France — Roots reflection on the year
During the festive period, AYS pauses our usual News Digests in order to give detailed insight into certain topics, as well as to give our…
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Dec 24, 2022
AYS Special from Greece: Protests on Samos CCAC shed light on procedural violations
AYS Special from Greece: Protests on Samos CCAC shed light on procedural violations
On Monday 5th September, asylum seekers in the EU-funded Closed Control Access Centre (CCAC) on Samos held a protest against their…
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Oct 2, 2022
AYS Special from Greece: What is happening in the Mavrovouni camp on Lesvos?
AYS Special from Greece: What is happening in the Mavrovouni camp on Lesvos?
The following article was written by volunteers from different collectives on Lesvos in close collaboration with multiple people on the…
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Jul 20, 2022
AYS Special from Croatia — Hrvatska: A Refugee must be Healthy!
AYS Special from Croatia — Hrvatska: A Refugee must be Healthy!
Every day, people who have been granted international protection in Croatia are hindered from exercising their right to primary health…
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Jul 17, 2022
AYS Special from Croatia— Hrvatska: Izbjeglica mora biti zdrava!
AYS Special from Croatia— Hrvatska: Izbjeglica mora biti zdrava!
Osobe koje su u Hrvatskoj ostvarile međunarodnu zaštitu svakodnevno se susreću s preprekama pri ostvarivanju prava na primarnu zdravstvenu…
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Jul 15, 2022
AYS Special from Dunkirk and Calais — The British dream is still present
AYS Special from Dunkirk and Calais — The British dream is still present
Despite the UK’s plans to deport new arrivals to Rwanda, more than 1000 people gather in Calais and Dunkirk hoping the cross the channel…
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Jul 12, 2022
AYS Special from Greece: Immediate Search and Rescue of Civilians Needed Now
AYS Special from Greece: Immediate Search and Rescue of Civilians Needed Now
In most functioning democracies search and rescue within the territory does not require the intervention of the national ombudsman.
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Jul 11, 2022
AYS Special from Greece: Human rights defenders targets of defamation and media smear campaigns
AYS Special from Greece: Human rights defenders targets of defamation and media smear campaigns
Since the election of the right-wing Nea Demokratia party in 2019, the promulgation of the International Protection Act (IPA — L…
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Jul 3, 2022
AYS Special from Greece: 43 Million Euros for no water
AYS Special from Greece: 43 Million Euros for no water
The Closed Controlled Access Centre in Samos officially opened in September 2021, it was stated that material conditions would improve.
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May 19, 2022
AYS Special from Greece: 6 problems with the EU-Turkey Deal
AYS Special from Greece: 6 problems with the EU-Turkey Deal
It is 6 years since the EU Turkey deal came into effect, and for a brief moment in March 2016 arrivals stopped completely. Since that time…
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Mar 20, 2022
AYS Special from Austria: “It’s the beginning of a new crisis”
AYS Special from Austria: “It’s the beginning of a new crisis”
In Austria, asylum applications by unaccompanied children shot up last year.
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Mar 6, 2022
AYS Special from Lithuania: “They treat you like criminals”
AYS Special from Lithuania: “They treat you like criminals”
In recent months multiple reports have come out of Lithuania about deplorable living conditions and prison like environments.
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Feb 27, 2022
AYS Special from Turkey: Deportations to Syria
AYS Special from Turkey: Deportations to Syria
Over the past months, we have received increasing reports of collective deportations of Syrian people on the move…
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Feb 13, 2022
AYS Special from Greece: “I cannot swim.”
AYS Special from Greece: “I cannot swim.”
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Feb 6, 2022
AYS Special from Greece: “I cannot swim.”
AYS Special from Greece: “I cannot swim.”
Today is a global day of CommemorAction for people who have died, gone missing or become forcibly disappeared on their journeys.
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Feb 6, 2022
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