Episode 7 of a podcast series about the socio-political climate faced by Syrians and their host communities through their own eyes as the pressure rises for refugees to return to Syria.

Politicians, media and some academics have spent years peddling narratives that racism and Islamophobia are the ‘will of the people’, but the facts tell a very different story.

It is easy to ignore the context that made this crime possible.

Episode 6 of a podcast series about the socio-political climate faced by Syrians and their host communities through their own eyes as the pressure rises for refugees to return to Syria.

The EU will continue to provide material and political support to the Egyptian regime, as long as it serves its goals.

Russian rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina has been defending the rights of refugees and displaced persons for years. Here she talks about the decay of the judicial system in Russia, Chechnya and pessimism. RU

Throughout history, the story of Exodus has inspired people around the world fleeing persecution.

This Russian-Kazakh film explores how people who migrate to Russia are often subject to forces far greater than themselves.

La crisis humanitaria provocada por la precariedad absoluta de miles de migrantes, que sueñan con llegar a Estados Unidos y obtener asilo y trabajo, pone en encrucijada a toda una región. English

Only a more open policy of migration would neither threaten migrants nor European citizens. To foster such a policy, the Mediterranean mobility conflict must be addressed.

This is probably part of the intention of the European Commission… not only to outsource migration control to other countries but to put its obvious consequences for human lives out of sight.

In Lebanon, a women-only group of migrant domestic workers have come together to fight for rights in the workplace. 

As the EU turns away from international human rights commitments, asserting border controls at almost any cost including that to humanitarian activists, what role can art play?

Tougher internal controls under Macron are only giving police more powers, allowing them to conduct identity checks in emergency shelters. Brutality towards migrants is likely to become even more common.

While many Amazigh were marginalized and discriminated against during the Gaddafi era, they are now the vanguard in promoting minority rights. -->

Refugee rights are reserved for the few lucky enough to evade the sophisticated deterrence regime, while the vast majority of the world’s refugees are referred to a life in semi-permanent limbo.

“I left Afghanistan because I didn’t want to kill for the Taliban... I could not do that, but European life is very dangerous too: I never thought it would be like this.”

“Let us first understand the problem. The power to define is at the heart of the struggle of people that are usually (made) invisible, unheard, disposable.”

When states criminalise help, is it a sign of active citizenship to disobey?