Tag: Syria

  • Migrant smugglers using social media

    Evil trade using Twitter and Facebook. Human traffickers use social media to advertise trips to Italy Smugglers use Twitter and Facebook to lure migrants seeking passage to Europe. Trips start […]

  • Australian policy won’t work in Med

    Turning migrants back won’t work. Italian navy chief sceptical of Australian solution to Med migrant crisis Rome: An Italian navy chief on Tuesday poured cold water on suggestions Europe should adopt Australia`s […]

  • 5,800 migrants rescued by Italy

    Huge number rescued at weekend. Mediterranean migrant crisis: Thousands of migrants rescued at sea More than 5,800 migrants have been rescued and 10 bodies recovered off the Libyan coast over […]

  • EU must focus on root causes of migration

    Analysis of recent EU moves. The EU must focus on the root causes of migration The EU is planning to act against human traffickers in the Mediterranean. But the plight […]

  • NATO calls for comprehensive migrant response

    Will work with Libya once security situation allows. NATO calls for ‘comprehensive response” to migrant crisis Lisbon (AFP) – The plight of migrants in the Mediterranean requires a “comprehensive response”, […]

  • Migrants: Libya is Not Somalia

    The legal issues surrounding migration. Migrants: Libya is Not Somalia Op-ed by David Hammond EU leaders have suggested that military capabilities should be used to deny Libyan human traffickers the […]

  • Mediterranean migrants crisis

    Analysing the options. Mediterranean migrants crisis: Is military force the solution? By Jasmine Coleman European leaders are scrambling to find a way of stemming the flow of migrants across the […]

  • Concerns over proposed EU migrant tactics

    Cornered by foreign naval vessels, people traffickers may simply throw their human cargo overboard. Why fighting piracy won’t work as a model for fighting people traffickers By Colin Freeman, Chief foreign correspondent […]

  • Migrant deaths: EU holds urgent talks

    Huge death toll over weekend. Mediterranean migrant deaths: EU holds urgent talks EU foreign and interior ministers are due to meet in Luxembourg to discuss the deaths of migrants trying […]

  • EU: Intolerable Inaction Costs Lives at Sea

    Set Up Robust, Mediterranean-wide Search and Rescue Operation EU: Intolerable Inaction Costs Lives at Sea (Milan) – Reports of 400 lives lost in the Mediterranean between April 11-13, 2015, should […]