[Italie/Tunisie] FTCR: Verdict dans l'affaire des pécheurs d'Agrigente

Le Tribunal d’Agrigente (Sicile, Italie) a prononcé le mercredi 18 novembre 2009 la relaxe des hommes d’équipage des navires tunisiens Mortadha et Mohammed-el-Hedi de l'accusation d' "aide à l'immigration clandestine". Les sept pêcheurs tunisiens étaient poursuivis pour avoir secouru 44 migrants sur le point de chavirer en pleine mer dans le canal de Sicile et de les avoir En revanche, et en opérant un retournement très grave, le Tribunal a prononcé une peine de deux ans et demi de prison à l’encontre de Abdelkarim Bayoudh et Abdelbaset El Jenzri, capitaines des navires Mortadha et Mohammed-el-Hedi pour "Non obtempération aux ordres des gardes cotes italiens", "résistance à officiers de la sécurité publique" et "menaces de violences à l'encontre d'un bâtiment militaire".

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[Maroc] REMDH: Note d'information sur l'asile au Maroc

Note d'information rédigée par le REMDH à l'occasion de la réunion du Groupe de Travail Migation et Affaires Sociales, UE-Maroc, prévue à Bruxelles, le 24 novembre 2009.

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[Belgique] RTBF: Un camp de réfugiés au cœur de Bruxelles

Un camp de réfugiés s'installe au cœur de la capitale européenne, la veille d'un sommet de marchandages dont l'Union européenne a le secret. La Belgique, faute de place, ne peut plus accueillir les demandeurs d'asile. Ou plutôt faute de volonté politique. A ce jour, plus de 1000 demandeurs doivent dormir dehors.

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[Egypt] IOM: Information Campaign to Promote Safe Migration

A nationwide information campaign to promote safe migration and to advertise positive alternatives to irregular migration gets underway today in Egypt. The Italian-funded campaign, which is carried in close partnership with Egypt's National Council of Childhood and Motherhood, aims to raise awareness among young people of the benefits of legal migration. Emphasis will be also placed on the importance for young Egyptians to acquire professional and linguistic skills that will enhance their ability to successfully find employment both in Egypt and abroad.

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[Italy] OIM: Deceived Migrants Evacuated From Buildings

Up to 700 migrants who were squatting in abandoned buildings without water and electricity in San Nicola Varco, some 100 kilometres south of Naples, have been evacuated by the Italian Police, with many transferred to nearby identification and expulsion centres.

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[EU] Border Monitoring Project Ukraine - Activity report

Various reports and activities on the conditions of refugees and migrants in Ukraine during 2005-8 revealed serious problems in this field1. This pointed to the need for systematic monitoring of the situation in the region of the external borders of the European Union (notably Slovakia, Hungary and Romania) with Ukraine. In 2008, representatives from various associations and institutions in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, UK and Ukraine, after some discussion with UNHCR, Helsinki Committee Hungary and others decided to take initiative. A Border Monitoring Project (BMP) was set up in Western Ukraine with the aim to monitor the implementation of social, human and refugee rights in the border region.

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[Israel] IRIN: Getting tough on "infiltrators"

Aid groups and several members of parliament (MPs) are outraged by what seems to be the toughening of Israeli policy towards asylum-seekers illegally entering the country.

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