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UN Committee Against Torture should launch inquiry into Italy’s role in ‘pull-backs’ to Libya, says migrants’ rights group
The Swiss Committee for the Defence of the Rights of Migrants has called on the UN Committee Against Torture to launch an inquiry into Italy's role in 'pull-backs' to Libya. A formal inquiry by the Committee would be able to establish the legal facts surrounding Italy's practices. Read More
Europe: COVID-19 lockdowns expose racial bias and discrimination within police
A new report from Amnesty International looks at how police forces across Europe have enforced lockdown restrictions - and finds that ethnic minorities and other marginalised groups have been disproportionately targeted. Read More
Press release: Hundreds of NGOs and individuals call for the revocation of Libya’s maritime search and rescue zone
London, 29 June 2020 - The civil liberties organisation Statewatch has today delivered an open letter [1] with hundreds of signatories to Mr Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of International Maritime Organization (IMO), calling on him to revoke the Libyan maritime search and rescue (SAR) zone [2] in order to prevent the so-called Libyan Coast Guard undertaking 'pull-backs' of migrants to Libya, where they face violence, abuse and mistreatment. Read More
Council of Europe: Pushbacks and border violence against refugees must end
The Council of Europe issues a strong statement on World Refugee Day calling for an end to "blatant violations of refugees' rights." Read More
UK: BAME, refugee and migrant deaths in custody (2014 – 2020)
Updated statistics from the Institute of Race Relations lay bare the degree of impunity for the deaths in custody of black, ethnic minority, migrant and refugee persons. Read More
Dutch government under growing pressure to take in child refugees
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, protests across the Netherlands call for the government to take in 500 unaccompanied child refugees stuck in appalling conditions on Greek islands. Read More
UN agrees to urgent debate on racism and police violence
African states have requested an urgent debate at the UN Human Rights Council. Read More
Remote control: the EU-Libya collaboration in mass interceptions of migrants in the Central Mediterranean
A new report from Alarm Phone, Borderline Europe, Mediterranea and Sea-Watch. Read More
Open letter: The European Commission must prioritise addressing police violence and structural racism in the EU
An open letter coordinated by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). Read More
UK: Police presence in schools ‘criminalises BME students’
A new report, Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools, argues that increasing the number of police in schools has particularly negative affects on black and other ethnic minority pupils. Read More