Refugee campaigners for refugee rights arrested in Niger with the complicity of the UNHCR.

https://www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/urgent-appeal-refugee-human-rights-defenders-arbitrarily-arrested-in-niger

There are no western institutions not complicit in the abuse of people on the move.

#Refugees, #Migration, #UNHCR, #FerriesNotFrontex, #FreeMovement

A new post from @refugeesinlibya . it details some of the abuse at one of the official detention centres, Abu Salim, in Libya.

https://www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/samia-s-guards-sexual-humiliation-of-migrants-inside-abu-salim-detention-center-in-tripoli-libya

The post is also available in Arabic
https://www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%B0%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85-%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%B7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%B3

#Refugees, #Libya, #NoBorders, #FerriesNotFrontex, #RefugeesWelcome, #Migration

I cannot stress enough that you should read this essay.

In Libya, survival came at the cost of being erased even as I labored to sustain the lives of others. The militias do this with impunity, and why shouldn’t they? Europe pays them to keep us trapped, to break us before we reach its borders. The echoes of the past are loud in Libya. The auctions today carry the same cold calculations as those centuries ago: a man reduced to the strength of his arms, a woman to the curve of her back, a child to the potential of their years. And as I stood in the midst of it, I felt the weight of history pressing down, telling me that this is what Blackness has always meant to them, a body to be used, a soul to be ignored.

https://www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/chronicles-of-blackness-surviving-the-shadows-of-libya-and-europe

#FerriesNotFrontex, #NoBorders, #NoHumanIsIllegal

Those who eat together fight together.

Brighton's amazing Jollof cafe are putting on an evening of food and talks on 18 December at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church.

There is a veggie version of Jollof rice, fried plantain, Ewa Oloyin (a dish based on honey beans), followed by Puff-Puffs served with Zobo (a hibiscus and pineapple drink).

There are talks from Ubah Dirie, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers, Louise Purbrick of Radio Calais and Sara Alsherif of @openrightsgroup

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-freedom-to-move-freedom-to-stay-dinner-and-talk-tickets-1049481516467?aff=oddtdtcreator

#Brighton, #RefugeesWelcome, #Migration, #Immigration, #FreeMovment, #NoBorders, #FerriesNotFrontex, #JollofRice, @immigration @sarahalsherif

!This is Radio Calais! Talking Border Controls. Reaching across them to you. Click on the link for the new episode https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioReverb/radio-calais-episode-38-border-controls/

#Immigration, #Migration, #Refugees, #RefugeesWelcome, #FerriesNotFrontex, #FreeMovement, #NoBorders, @immigration

The Alarm Phone is 10 years old today. Here is an article from @openDemocracy talking about their work assisting people who the state would rather leave to drown. I think that it obscures how impressively transnational the project is and, more importantly, how much it relies on infrastructure built by people on move. It is still a good article about a phenomenal project:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/we-had-to-do-something-10-years-on-the-meds-rescue-hotline-alarm-phone-refugees/

#FerriesNotFrontex, #FreeMovement, #RefugeesWelcome, @immigration