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International protection and other provisions: Greece’s new (illegal) refugee law
Context The Greek government has, as expected, passed an Act which will significantly reduce the rights of men, women and children who...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Jul 31, 201934 min read
Idlib, Istanbul, Turkey and the EU: Review, 30 July 2019
2019 Statistics so far 1. New arrivals by sea 2. Transfers from the islands to mainland 3. Other removals from the islands 4. Detention...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Jul 23, 201933 min read
New democracy? A guide to Greece under Nea Dimokratia
People who like to deal in political aphorisms will tell you that the first weeks a government spends in power are its most important....
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Rory O'Keeffe
Jun 27, 201920 min read
The United Nations Does Not Exist: notes on the UN and humanitarianism for aid workers and other int
The United Nations does not exist. More to the point (though ‘more to the point’ may seem counterintuitive here), the UN Security Council...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 22, 20189 min read
Numbers: the missing 17,951?
There are at least 17,951 people who were registered as refugees and/or made an application for asylum, in Greece, from 1 January-18...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Apr 28, 201819 min read
Movement and the gathering storm
Thessaloniki, 28 April Arrivals to Eastern Aegean islands, 1 January – 26 April 2018, inclusive Lesvos, 4,613. Total arrivals since 3...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Mar 30, 201833 min read
Open Arms? Closing borders and refusing to talk is handing Europe to the far-Right
The – justified – outrage over the impounding of the ship ‘Open Arms’ has its roots in Italy’s refusal to make a case for aiding...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Jan 29, 20188 min read
Politicians, and the problem we face
Rob Wilson, the former UK Charities Minister, has used his column in the national newspaper the Daily Telegraph to attack an...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 21, 20173 min read
UN rejects US' declaration of Jerusalem as Israeli capital
The United Nations has voted – overwhelmingly – to reject the US’ recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel. Of the 193...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 16, 20173 min read
The system isn't working: debt, poverty and coercion forces refugees back to the unsafe places t
At Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, an increasing number of people are being forced to return to Somalia even as the war they fled there...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 3, 20174 min read
US uses migration to further undermine UN
In yet another measure which signals both its withdrawal from actively participating in international agreements, and its ongoing desire...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 17, 20172 min read
Russia uses vetoes to end investigations into Syrian chemical weapons use
Russia has used its veto at the UN Security Council for the tenth time in the almost seven years of the Syrian civil war, once again to...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 13, 20174 min read
UNHCR's flawed approach to Africa
The United Nations says it has moved 25 ‘extremely vulnerable’ refugees from Libya to Niger, in the first stage of its new – deeply...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 10, 20172 min read
Refugees forced to Europe by Libyan chaos, slavery
Refugees in Italy note that they had no real intention of coming to Europe, until they experienced the chaos in Libya, and realised they...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 30, 20174 min read
Sahel force; an exercise in folly
The UN meets today to discuss the formation of a five-nation, 5,000 soldier armed force to operate across the Sahel and into Libya. The...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 27, 20171 min read
Assad 'used gas against Syrian civilians' - UN
The United Nations’ Joint Investigative Mechanism reports that Bashar al Assad launched sarin gas projectiles at Khan Sheikun, a...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 24, 20173 min read
UN, Amnesty, call for Europe and US to do more to help refugees
The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has visited Washington DC to request the US does more to ‘show leadership’ on...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 12, 20173 min read
UNESCO - the US' attack on the UN
Israel and the US have announced that they will leave UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural protection body, with the latter citing...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 9, 20175 min read
The UN: defined by structural flaws
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Joanathan has told the Rhodes Forum that far from preventing wars, the UN has ‘only succeeded in...
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