Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Labour: please change the focus, and conversation, on UK immigration
...stop talking about immigration as if it's a security issue, improve the immigration system and massively reduce deaths at sea...
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Mar 711 min read
Israel and Gaza 3) What should happen next
The Israeli government's attack on Gaza has delivered misery, death, and little else. There is a far preferable alternative.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Mar 78 min read
Israel and Gaza 2) 8 October 2023: What should have happened
The Israeli government's attack on Gaza has delivered misery, death, and little else. It could have chosen a very different response.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Mar 711 min read
Israel and Gaza: 1) (A bit of) History
The Israeli government's attack on Gaza has delivered misery, death, and little else. Misrepresenting its history is a part of the problem.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Feb 291 min read
Pushbacks: Together Magazine, December 2023
Our article Pushbacks, in Finland's Together magazine, highlighting the Greek government's vicious and illegal anti-refugee campaign.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Feb 88 min read
Synelefsi and analysis
Synelefsi announces with regret it must pause operations. We also offer some advice on more effective advocacy.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Oct 11, 20234 min read
Greek government carries out highest ever number of illegal pushbacks
In September this year, the Greek government illegally pushed back the highest ever number of men, women and children arriving in Greece.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Sep 15, 202311 min read
Labour in the UK: chasing the votes of racists, and risking an election to do so
With his most recent comments on immigration, Keir Starmer has set the UK back decades, and further risks the lives of people seeking safety
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Sep 8, 20234 min read
Pushback proportions, not numbers, fall in August
Although the proportion of people being illegally pushed back from Greece has fallen, the reason is not what one might expect or hope.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 9, 202315 min read
EU must use power to protect rights activists
UN human rights expert Mary Lawlor says the EU must demand Tajikistan ends attacks on human rights defenders or not upgrade trade relations.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 2, 202312 min read
EU must abandon plans to wreck, end, human lives
The EU has agreed two of the worst 'migration initiatives' in human history. Both must be abandoned, as they will kill people seeking safety
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 1, 20237 min read
Serious problems with NGO allegations
The Greek government is committing libel against aid workers and organisations in the state.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jul 31, 202317 min read
'New' government, same abuse of the legal system
The Greek government is attacking human rights defenders because they are the people's last line of defence of against the Greek government
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 23, 20234 min read
Caretaker government breaks, misleads regarding, refugee law
Correcting some elemental errors on refugee law, and noting the quickest, smartest and most effective way to end people 'smuggling'.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 22, 202327 min read
Seven days from the Pylos catastrophe: lies, persecution and protest
Several updates from the week following the Pylos catastrophe: the Greek government running from responsibility, the law and human decency.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 21, 20239 min read
Mitsotakis: shifting blame and attacking those who have human feeling
Kiriakos Mitsotakis has caused Greece's worst ever rail and maritime catastrophes. How many people does he want to kill before he resigns?
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 16, 20237 min read
Pylos: an unfolding catastrophe in which 650 deaths are still largely ignored
A note which includes the fact that the Greek Coastguard may have actively killed 650 men, women and children, and on what pushbacks are for
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 14, 202310 min read
Greece, Italy, ‘Eastern Libya’ and the EU: killers of 650 people
Greece, Italy, 'Eastern Libya' and the EU are responsible for killing 650 men, women and children today. We should not pretend they are not.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
May 24, 202317 min read
Greece, Nea Dimokratia and ‘second chances’
Nea Dimokratia took a far greater lead over SYRIZA than expected on Sunday. But just one in four registered Greek voters voted for it.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
May 18, 20238 min read
Lesvos’ turn to revel in ND carnival of lies
Anyone unfortunate enough to be addressed by Nea Dimokratia on its ‘fair’ refugee policy should ask: what happened to our €3.2bn?
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