📢 South African FM Ronald Lamola said Monday that the arrival in #johannesburg last week of a plane carrying Palestinian #refugees was a “clearly orchestrated operation” to displace Palestinians

🔹 Flights (2) appeared to be part of a “broader agenda”

🔹 Lamola: Matter is under investigation

#news #palestine #africa #southafrica
#humanrights #ihl #law

📰 Report Anadolu NOV-18

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/south-africa-flags-orchestrated-push-to-displace-palestinians-after-refugee-flight/3746575

South Africa flags ‘orchestrated’ push to displace Palestinians after refugee flight

‘We do not want any further flights to come our way because this is a clear agenda to cleanse out the Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank,’ says foreign minister - Anadolu Ajansı

Mark Elliott sees four areas where Labour's shift to worsen the rights of refugees is intended to confront the European Convention on Human Rights:

Removing obligations around destitution;

Reducing weight of private & family life;

(as noted yesterday) changing the threshold for inhumane & degrading treatment;

Shifting legal practice(s) on refugees.

Elliott sees this as explicitly intending to provoke the Courts into conflict with the Govt.

#politics #ECHR #refugees

https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/the-legal-and-constitutional-implications-of-the-asylum-white-paper-some-initial-thoughts/

The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts

Proposals for radical reform of the UK’s asylum system raise a number of legal and constitutional issues, with respect both to the European Convention on Human Rights and the domestic principle of …

Public Law for Everyone
www.economist.com/briefing/202... With trends such as these, it is not particularly hard to imagine the life in Sequoia, the fictional city of "A New Faith". What this #solarpunk #book explores is how these #climate #refugees figure out (or not?) how to live with this freedom. #booksky

All over the rich world, fewer...
All over the rich world, fewer people are hooking up and shacking up

Social media, dating apps and political polarisation all play a part

The Economist

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/11/06/all-over-the-rich-world-fewer-people-are-hooking-up-and-shacking-up

With trends such as these, it is not particularly hard to imagine the life in Sequoia, the fictional city of "A New Faith". What this #solarpunk #book explores is how these #climate #refugees figure out (or not?) how to live with this freedom.

#bookstodon #sciencefiction #climatefiction #detective #thriller #mystery #urbanfantasy #speculativefiction

More families to be deported under Home Secretary plans to stop UK being ‘destination of choice’ for refugees

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/17/families-deported-home-secretary-plans-stop-uk-destination-choice-refugees-24732918/

Al Dabbah, #Sudan
People displaced from El Fasher use a makeshift community kitchen in El Afadh camp in North Darfur state.

Photograph: Marwan Ali/AP

#photography
#refugees

"A Church of England bishop has said Shabana Mahmood’s comments on asylum seekers had shaken him “to the core” and argued people coming to the UK were being “scapegoated” for years of government policy failures."

#UKPol #Labour #Immigration #Refugees

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/anglican-bishop-home-secretary-shabana-mahmood-asylum-seeker-comments

Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments

Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures

The Guardian
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