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News and updates, long reads // Paris unaccompanied minors need support and Utopia volunteers // Greek reports on border securitisation // Report on hunger at the borders // on the EU strategy to deliberately slow rescue operations — FEATURED France — Associations Utopia 56, TIMMY , TARA and MIE Midis call for support and, along with direct help through volunteering with one of the field teams, you can support them by signing this petition addressed to Emmanuel Macron, Elisabeth Borne, Charlotte Caubel, Gérald Darmanin, Eric Dupond Moretti, Olivier Véran…

Libya increases its surveillance capacity // Concerning updates about the rapid development of Lesvos CCAC // Failures to protect people from sexual violence in Swiss asylum centres // Join opposition to the UK’s floating prisons // Calls for support in Germany and on Lesvos & longer reads — FEATURE — What’s going on with Frontex? Nothing new — prioritising PR over people Since 2016, Frontex has become the fastest growing EU agency, with a budget of close to €1 billion, and 11,000 employees. Make no mistake about its priorities: dissuasion, detention and deportation, rather than the assistance and protection of people.

New Machine Translation University chapter on selecting MT systems, new languages available through MT Hub, and a handful of AI news that made April so remarkable ✨ — April unveiled 🌸: New chapter 📖: Selecting MT systems based on available assets New languages from Microsoft and ModernMT PDF translations (with OCR!) now available via Intento Portal Glossary labels — New! Intento Translator for Chrome — Updated!

Leaked internal EU documents reveal the shortcomings of CCACs // UK Minister of Immigration doesn’t know international law // Title 42 expires, causing chaos on the Mexican/US border // Policy recommendations on mitigating the impact of climate change on migration & more — FEATURE — AI Act in Europe: what does the ban on predictive surveillance technologies mean for people on the move? In short: there are significant protections missing in the context of migration from the AI Act.

Deportations of Syrian refugees continue in Lebanon // Expansion of the Fylakio Closed Detention Centre in the Evros region // Italian PM Meloni meets with Libya // Pushbacks to Italy on the French border // Opposition to the UK’s “Irregular Migration Bill” & much more — FEATURE — TURKEY What will the Turkish election (14th May) mean for Syrians in Turkey? Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of Erdogan’s biggest opposition bloc, is — on the surface — a hopeful prospect for the EU. He has promised a transition to a parliamentary system in Turkey, and to implement the rulings of the ECHR.

Hey, it’s this time of month where you get new batch of curated list of articles and whatnot. This time around we’ve got even a full SRE conference playlist in the mix Enjoy! [[ DEV ]] NumPy Vs Pandas [Video] Source: Youtube Beginner’s guide to python; https://ibm.biz/Python_for_beginners If you’ve heard of Pandas and…

Protests on Samos // The violence of externalisation, as carried out by Tunisian authorities // Protests in Rabat about the non-investigation of disappeared people on the move // Aggressive legal reforms in Italy: harsher punishments for scape-goated ‘boat drivers’, harder to gain protections // Germany to vote on externalisation policies — on the brink of funding border fences for Fortress Europe? // Call for volunteers at Calais Food Collective & much more

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing every industry, and we at ROI4Presenter are no exception! Our IT team had been working on a virtual presentation assistant even before the public release of ChatGPT. But, with its introduction, we were able to simplify some of our tasks. …

Greek court rules the state guilty for the deaths in Moria in 2017 // Personal accounts from detainees in the UK and people pushed back from Greece // Minors protest in Lampedusa // The illegitimate practice of distant ports continues in Italy // Alarm Phone reports in detail on the British pushback from January & more info, reports and testimonies — FEATURE Lebanon is set to return the displaced Syrians to their country as the recent meeting of the officials ended with giving the security forces the green light for “a broader effort to deport undocumented Syrian nationals”, as reported by the media.