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#refugees

Michael E. Pilarczyk
2 hours ago

Die unchristliche #FCKCDU & ihr rassistisch hetzender "KlemmNAZI" Friedrich #Merz ... 🤮🤬🤮

Hintergrund: https://www.n-tv.de/24427985 ...

#Migrationskrise #Refugees #Migration #CDU #CSU #FCKCSU #FriedrichMerz #FCKNZS #NoNAZIS #Bundestag

Bob Jamieson
5 hours ago

Normal Island News

Suella Braverman declares women and gay people aren't real refugees
She wants her title of UK's most evil person back
Suella Braverman has desperately tried to reclaim her title of “the UK’s most evil person” from Laurence Fox by declaring that gay people and women should not be allowed to claim asylum.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/suella-braverman-declares-women-and?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#NormalIslandNews #SuellaBraverman #refugees #asylum #fascism #ToryScum #politics

AnnasTochter
9 hours ago

"Our whole life was spent in war, our children could not enjoy life as is typical of the young in their years, and now we are running from our homes so that we will not be killed"
https://jam-news.net/stories-of-nc-residents-who-came-to-goris/
Stories of women who fled their homes. Photos and videos.
Fear, despair, grief. Does it never end?
#Artsakh #Armenia #karabakh #refugees

Flipboard News Desk
9 hours ago

The U.S. will aim to resettle up to 50,000 refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean in the next 12 months as part of a Biden administration plan to welcome as many as 125,000 people fleeing violence across the globe in fiscal year 2024.

CBS News reports on the plan: https://flip.it/BeSbPO

#Migrants #Refugees #Immigration #Biden #USPolitics #LatinAmerica

rads_official :mastodon:
10 hours ago

@spiegel

...Und der Spiegel fragt, stellvertretend für uns satte Europäer: Schaffen WIR das?

Und Bundeskanzler #scholz wird einer #krisenverordnung , durch die die Menschen noch länger in Lagern festgehalten werden können, zustimmen.

Da muss es doch jedem, der noch einen Funken Menschlichkeit in sich hat, hochkommen.

#asyl #proasyl #refugees #refugeeswelcome

rads_official :mastodon:
10 hours ago

#scholz will also der "Herabsetzung von Schutzstandards" zustimmen

Das bedeutet:

"So soll etwa in Krisensituationen der Zeitraum verlängert werden können, in dem Menschen unter haftähnlichen Bedingungen festgehalten werden können. Zudem könnte der Kreis der Menschen vergrößert werden, der für die geplanten strengen Grenzverfahren infrage kommt."

#asyl #refugees #proasyl
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/machtwort-von-scholz-deutschland-beendet-offenbar-asylblockade-in-der-eu-10537555.html

:kafeneio: Φου
14 hours ago

UK Home Secretary: "Multiculturalism has failed."

Braverman says multiculturalism has 'failed' in Europe during migration speech

"Uncontrolled immigration, inadequate integration and a misguided dogma of multiculturalism have proven a toxic combination for Europe over the last few decades."

#FortressEurope #Refugees

https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/26/suella-braverman-speech-america-global-asylum-rules-refugee-convention-19560681/

KB
15 hours ago

“And here was Suella out-Kemiing Kemi.”

Ah, John, you do make me laugh—even when the subject is shit. And no question, Braverman is a shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/26/smirking-suella-trashes-70-years-of-human-rights-in-30-minutes

#Braverman #Immigration #Asylum #Refugees

:kafeneio: Φου
16 hours ago

#BrusselsCalling #PodCast #FortressEurope #Refugees
Μαρία Ψαρά

Γίνεται χαμός στις Βρυξέλλες με την συμφωνία ΕΕ-Τυνησίας.

Πήγαν τον περασμένο Ιούλη οι Ούρσουλα, Μελόνι, Ρούτε και υπέγραψαν συμφωνία με την Τυνησία χωρίς να πάρουν άδεια και συναπόφαση από τους υπόλοιπους της ΕΕ.

Πολλές χώρες έχουν διαμαρτυρηθεί. Γιατί μόνο αυτοί; Γιατί αυτοί οι συγκεκριμένοι; Γιατί δε συζητήθηκε η συμφωνία με τους 27; Ποιος ενέκρινε τους όρους και το ύψος του ποσού;

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0PoZkP9L2Kl2Nig9i2jIep?si=yJkQ3ZA5QxaLrAQHpb1-SA

European News 🇪🇺
20 hours ago

UN rebukes Suella Braverman over her attack on refugee convention

UNHCR defends 1951 convention after UK home secretary’s speech on ‘uncontrolled and illegal migration’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/26/un-suella-braverman-refugee-convention-unhcr-migration

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #UN #UnitedNations #UK #UnitedKingdom #Migrants #Migration #Refugees

Rosie Walters
22 hours ago

"Now, she had nothing against gay people or women. But really, it was about time they all toughened up a bit. If you can’t take a bit of discrimination and the odd death sentence then you’re not going to survive a moment in the modern world." John Crace

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/26/smirking-suella-trashes-70-years-of-human-rights-in-30-minutes

#CruellaBraverman #Refugees

Raymond Scott Pert
22 hours ago

Fit for our modern age'?: UK interior minister questions role of #UN refugee convention

> "But more than 70 years on, we now live in a completely different time," she said, citing a study that says the convention now gives at least 780 million people the potential right to move to another country

> ...called the 1951 Refugee Convention, which legally defines the term #refugees and outlines their rights, "an incredible achievement of its age"
https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2118687.html #UK #immigration #migration

Suella Braverman denounced 'outdated legal models' for handling asylum claims / © AFP
Rosie Walters
22 hours ago
Miro Collas
1 day ago

UN rebukes Suella Braverman over her attack on refugee convention | Suella Braverman | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/26/un-suella-braverman-refugee-convention-unhcr-migration

Rightly so.

#Braverman #UK #UN #Refugees #Tories

AngryBeast
1 day ago

Nochmal: dieses Land braucht pro Jahr mindestens 400.000 neue Zuwander*innen, um das im Median 4.-älteste Land der Erde, nach #Monaco, St. Pierre & Miquelon und #Japan aus der gerontischen Katastrophe einer völlig überalterten Gesellschaft, vor der sie im Osten gerade reißaus nehmen, – zu bringen.

In 2023 haben wir bisher eine Zuwanderung von #Refugees von gerade mal 217.000 und es sind nur noch 3 Monate übrig!

Und crossmedial wird mal wieder von einer "Flüchtlingskatastrophe" schwadruliert*.

Das sind die Tatsachen, – der Rest ist #Rassismus!

*Ja, ich weiß: schwadronieren ist der korrekte Begriff, aber Schwadrulieren trifft meiner Meinung nach besser die Äquidistanz sowohl zur Rechtschreibung als auch zur gesellschaftlichen, medialen Realität in diesem Land.

Darrin Nightingale
1 day ago

#SuellaBraverman is spouting some dangerous doublethink.

How can she claim #refugees are "uncontrolled and illegal migration" while also telling the international community they have “collectively failed” to reform the UN’s 1951 refugee convention and the ECHR?

She is either lying about refugees or international law, which is it?

Also, is it possible she's trying to reform international law to make her political lies true?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/26/un-suella-braverman-refugee-convention-unhcr-migration

European News 🇪🇺
1 day ago

UK’s Suella Braverman says LGBTQ+ persecution not enough for asylum claims

British home secretary argues fear of discrimination should no longer be sufficient grounds for granting asylum and that 1951 UN Refugee Convention must be reformed.

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-home-secretary-suella-braverman-lgbtq-asylum-refugee-convention/

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #UN #UnitedNations #UK #UnitedKingdom #Refugees #LGBT #LGBTQ

Dr Robert Minchin
2 days ago

There's a reason why the post-WW2 UN #refugees convention includes those with a well founded fear of persecution, not just those being persecuted. Replace Braverman's "Gay" with "Jewish" and you've got the anti-refugee arguments from the 1930s.

#Bigotry #Tories

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/26/appeal-to-lgbtq-tories-to-condemn-suella-braverman-over-gay-persecution-comments

Mike Grindle
2 days ago

Unsurprisingly, much like Sunak’s climate u-turn, home secretary Braverman’s speech has drawn fierce backlash, with Enver Solomon, the chief executive of the Refugee Council saying:

“A world where the UK and other western nations pull up the drawbridge and turn their backs on those who have been tortured, persecuted and faced terror because of their gender, sexuality or any other reason, is a world which turns its back on a belief in shared humanity and shared rights,”

#refugees #UN

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pennine
2 days ago

Every time #Braverman speaks she disgraces the UK. Tory Illegal Immigration Act is a cruel attempt 2 return #refugees 2 whatever fate awaits them, #UN refugee regulations get in the way of the Act, so abolish them say these inhuman Tories. They are despicable.https://tinyurl.com/5curxmtb #ToryLiars #ToryCorruption

Matt Green
2 days ago

New video:

Suella Braverman on Refugees!

https://youtu.be/5VV-a3fURTs

The Home Secretary is going to make a speech on Refugees - but what will she say? Top Correspondent Jonathan Goodenough has more...

#comedy #funny #satire #ukpolitics #politics #suellabraverman #immigration #refugees

Poetry News
2 days ago

Exodus from Karabakh
Armenians seek refuge abroad
Fear of ethnic cleanse

#nagornokarabakh #armenia #azerbaijan #refugees #haiku #poetry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66905581

penwing (they/them)
2 days ago

Later "Most people in Britain want to see strong border security and a properly managed asylum and resettlement system so that the UK does its bit to help vulnerable refugees who have fled persecution and conflict - like the Afghan interpreters who helped our armed forces."

No mention of the queer people Braverman is attacking here...

That's the level...

#UKPol #Labour #asylum #refugees

Isla
2 days ago

Could the UK government’s cosy relationship with #SaudiArabia -where it’s not just “difficult to be gay” but illegal and a death sentence- have anything to do with this latest bigoted stance?

#UKPol #UKPolitics #LGBTQrights #HumanRights #refugees #AsylumSeekers

“Suella Braverman says being gay isn’t reason enough for asylum“
https://apple.news/AfoL3DNx9SMGd6kti66gIeg

Simon Lucy
2 days ago

In order to criticise a Treaty, Protocol, Law or Contract one must first understand it. There is no discernable evidence that the UK Home Secretary, Suella Braverman does understand either the 1951 Refugee Treaty or the Treaty Protocol of 1966/67 and still less the UK's legal duties and responsibilities as a signatory.

#Refugees #Asylum #HomeOffice

Raymond Scott Pert
2 days ago

Italy Criticises Germany for Funding Migrant Charity Groups

> A German plan to finance charities helping migrants in the Mediterranean causes difficulties for Italy, defence minister Guido Crosetto said on Sunday, as Rome tries to enforce tougher measures to stem the flow of sea arrivals.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-09-24/italy-criticises-germany-for-funding-migrant-charity-groups #migration #refugees #asylum #Italy #Germany

A woman reacts, as she disembarks from a vessel after being rescued at sea, on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, September 18, 2023. REUTERS/Yara NardiREUTERS
Kriszta Satori
2 days ago

#BBCNews - #UK Home Secretary Suella #Braverman asks if international #refugee rules are fit for modern age
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66919416
The Refugee Convention's main principle states that #refugees should not be returned to countries where they face threats to life or freedom.

penwing (they/them)
2 days ago

Ahhh Suella Braverman has opted to target #queer #refugees as a group to start her vile international war on refugees against - great…

I think there is maybe one LGBT Action Plan thing implemented - The NHS LGBT Advisor… anyone heard from them recently… say over trans healthcare? NHS Trans Youth Guidance? Are they still working?

Everything else has turned to fuck the queers…

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/25/suella-braverman-to-ask-leaders-to-rewrite-refugee-rules-that-are-fit-for-modern-age

#UKPol

AhaAchja
2 days ago

@technotramp 🤩 Hach! 🤩
💚 Good morning, dear. 💚
Yes, we #TwitterniX- #refugees feel very comfortable in the #Fediverse, explicitly on/at #Mastodon.
The brilliant 💚 Doris Dus 💚 @Doris and her partner @Steffen even brought their own #server and a new #instance. 😃
We're from the "doing is like wanting, only crasser." department.
#German:
💙„Machen ist wie Wollen, nur krasser.“💙
Thanks a lot, have a good Tuesday too.
💚 Best regards. 💚

The administration of US President Joe Biden has reached out to Mexico for help confronting the spike in migration.#BorderDisputes #JoeBiden #Politics #Refugees #US-MexicoBorder #LatinAmerica #Mexico #UnitedStates #US&Canada
Texas cities struggle to address influx of arrivals along US-Mexico border
TriciaB
2 days ago
Kristian Harstad
2 days ago

100 km line of #refugees pouring into #Armenia from #NagornoKarabakh: 120,000 people abandoning their homes.

If you look closely, you can see one of the reasons why.

Refugees
Putin
Raymond Scott Pert
3 days ago

Texas border town ‘at a breaking point’ amid jump in migration

> El Paso (Texas): The dramatic increase in migrants crossing the #US border from #Mexico has pushed the city of El Paso, #Texas, to “a breaking point,” with more than 2,000 people per day seeking asylum, exceeding shelter capacity and straining resources, its mayor said on Saturday.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1777744 #migration #asylum #refugees #immigration

MIGRANTS walk along razor wire looking for a place to cross the Rio Grande river, near the US-Mexico border. —AFP
City of El Paso in Texas pleads for help amid a dramatic increase in asylum seekers crossing into the US from Mexico.#Migration #Politics #Refugees #Honduras #LatinAmerica #UnitedStates #US&Canada #Venezuela
El Paso, Texas, ‘at breaking point’ amid surge in refugee, migrant arrivals
JuneSim63
5 days ago

I missed this. Hauptführerin Suella Braverman is now starving an estimated 1000 of the 8,000 Afghan refugees brought to the UK under its resettlement scheme. Their food & cooking facilities have been withdrawn from the hotels they have been ordered to quit by the end of this month.
As ever, the cruelty is the point.
#Refugees #HomeOffice #Afghanistan #SuellaBraverman

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-office-afghan-resettlement-scheme-hotels-meals-food-withdrawn/?_kx=Y6Jr9DX7uTfIhCWL5xh7Xk6toSLI9GmA13iML-VdLDs%3D.YjCYwm

To date, #Canada has provided nearly $10 billion in aide to #Ukraine, and welcomed 175,000 #Ukrainian #refugees

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@Natasha_Jay #Westminster: "Ah, so you'll be wanting us to be crueller to #refugees then? We'll get right on it!" 🤡

Luna Vives
6 days ago

"Far-right leaders are setting many parts of the #EU agenda. Aggressive #migration policies that include the illegal pushback of #refugees, and are grounded in racist, demonising narratives, are increasingly favoured by mainstream European leaders."

Europe is sleepwalking into a far-right trap. Who will sound the alarm? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/21/europe-welcome-threat-eu-far-right-refugees?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Timo
1 week ago

Stacker referenced data from The Refugee Processing Center to compile statistics on the number of refugees and their countries of origin resettled in New Mexico in August 2023. #NewMexico #Refugees

https://stacker.com/new-mexico/where-refugees-new-mexico-are-arriving

Christine T
1 week ago

Seen earlier today. Asking for permanent visas to be granted sooner - not to be stuck in years and years of limbo without access to schooling, Medicare and stable work.

#protest #activism #refugees #AsylumSeekers #Australia

A peaceful street protest. Signs: 14 years too long! Permanent visas for 12000 refugees in limbo. 11 years for Iranian asylum seekers is too long. Help us for better future.
A peaceful street protest. Signs: Refugee not Refuse. Eleven years is too bloody long. 12000 refugees stuck in limbo, we need change. Permanent visas for all refugees now.
A peaceful street protest. Chanting around the crossing and traffic lights during every red light.
A lady holding a sign: do not tell me go back to where you came from. Ask me "why you came here"
Kriszta Satori
1 week ago

#BBCNews - Pain and #humiliation at toxic #Brook House, inquiry finds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-66846891
#migrants at Brook House, near Gatwick Airport, were subjected to #degrading treatment and to #racist and derogatory language by staff.
#refugees #UKImmigration

Michal Pawinski
1 week ago

In August, the gov. of #TrinidadandTobago deported #Venezuelan migrants and refugees in contravention of #humanrights and 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of #refugees

I am organazing a #webinar The Ebb and Flow of Trinidad and Tobago's Migratory Legal System: Impact and Challenges on Venezuelan Migrants.

You are invited to register and join the event via
https://form.jotform.com/232605055907859

Please also distribute the flyer to promote the event. #venezuela @politicalscience @academicchatter

Pact that promised Tunisia financial support in return for stopping migration is being debated in Europe.#EuropeanUnion #Migration #Racism #Refugees #Europe #Italy #MiddleEast #Tunisia
Europe frets over migration; Tunisia moves refugees to departure points
Daba is determined to cross the English Channel and finish the journey his brother started 17 years ago.#Documentary #ShowTypes #Migration #Refugees #Europe #MiddleEast #Sudan
Fleeing Sudan: A refugee’s journey to Europe
Kriszta Satori
2 weeks ago

'It was either the sea, lynched, or abandoned in the desert'

Accounts from #Tunisia of #migrants and #refugees gathered on board of #GeoBarents , the #MSF rescue ship, published by Medecins sans Frontieres

https://searchandrescue.msf.org/testimonies/it-was-either-the-sea,-lynched,-or-abandoned-in-the-desert.html
Contains graphic descriptions of torture ans violence

Erika Sumner
2 weeks ago

P.S. I'm a #humanist, #progressive & expert in #policy whose parents were #WWII #refugees & whose grandfather died b/c he couldn't get a visa. That govt pays my family #reparations to this day b/c of what the Nazis did to him. Abandoning humans fleeing war is inhumane, abandoning #Afghanistan when the #US promised safety AND when the only result would be Taliban rule, DEMANDS we honor the the military we sacrificed & help the #Afghans who worked w/ & BELIEVED in us that now fear for their lives.

AllyD
1 month ago

#OTD in 1939, on the cusp of WWII, Max Baum, a former stage performer from Germany then Lithuania and Latvia, a Jewish #refugee from the Nazi advance, was remanded at #Falkirk Sheriff Court after entering #Scotland on a boat.

#ScottishHistory #refugees

31 August 1939 newspaper clipping describing the travails of Max Baum in his efforts to escape the Nazi advance into Eastern Europe.
Geri
1 month ago

The much hated #braverman was on #SkyNews bemoaning that charities, amongs, other organisations, were thwarting her plans for deporting #Refugees

Age UK, that very militant organisation FFS

Kriszta Satori
1 month ago

How is the #war in #Sudan impacting #Chad ?

Conflict in Sudan has forced more than 300,000 #refugees to flee to neighboring Chad
https://www.rescue.org/article/how-war-sudan-impacting-chad-0

Kriszta Satori
1 month ago

#Krakow main square on #Ukraine independence day - it has been preempted by a dozen or so of what looked like #Polish ultranationalists suggesting " #Poland had enough of the Banderovites" (there were three times more police than protesters) but they couldn't spoil the mood of hundreds of #Ukrainian and #Belarusian #refugees , celebrating indepent #Ukraine's 32nd birthday

Plenty of people with Ukrainian and Belarusian flags celebrating Ukraine independence day on the main square in Krakow, Poland - beautiful historic buildings lit up in the background
Kriszta Satori
1 month ago

'A far-right backlash against the home secretary’s asylum policy has brought a deluge of hate to a peaceful Welsh town'
By Aditya Chakrabortty, v @therightarticle

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/24/south-wales-suella-braverman-welsh-stradey-park-hotel?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#refugees #Llanelli #SuellaBraverman

Autonomie und Solidarität
1 month ago

Solche und ähnliche autoritäre Kontrollvorhaben werden von Staaten und Behörden (oft in Kooperation mit privaten Unternehmen) gerne an Geflüchteten oder anderen Gruppen getestet und optimiert, die rechtlich schlechter gestellt und ihrer Gnade ausgeliefert sind. So gibt es etwa in #Australien seit einigen Jahren eine "Cashless Welfare Card", die arbeitslose und #Sozialhilfe empfangende Menschen statt Bargeld/Kontoeinzahlungen erhalten und die so programmiert wurde, dass nur bestimmte Waren an bestimmten Orten damit erworben werden können.

Dazu drehte juicemedia bereits 2020 eine sehenswerte Folge:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9RZSTx9khWw

#Überwachung #Autoritarisierung #Bargeld #Staat #Herrschaft #Migration #Refugees #Diskriminierung

Forget oil, the next global wars will be over water.

It’s bad now because humans have chosen to ignore increasingly dire warnings for well over 50 years.

It’s only going to get much, much worse — really quite quickly.

The coming tsunami of drought refugees moving north will make the Channel crossings look like a day at the boating lake.

You can’t whine you weren’t warned.

#ClimateBreakdown #ClimateEmergency #Refugees

https://news.sky.com/story/quarter-of-worlds-population-living-with-extreme-annual-water-stress-12940995

JuneSim63
1 month ago

Until last month, newly recognised refugees and survivors of trafficking had 28 days to find alternative accommodation after receiving a “notice to quit” before being evicted from Home Office accommodation they had lived in while officials were processing their claims. The Home Office has now reduced this to a minimum of seven days, so thousands could become homeless.

As ever, with the Tories, the cruelty is the point.
#Refugees #AsylumSeekers #UKPolitics #HomeOffice

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/15/thousands-of-refugees-could-face-homelessness-after-home-office-policy-change?CMP=GTUK_email

Tu Thanh Ha
1 month ago

Two years after the Taliban swept back to power, many Afghans who helped Canada’s military and qualify for resettlement programs remain in limbo in Pakistan.

They live precariously, fearing deportation, confined to hotel rooms, their children unable to attend school.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-afghanistan-taliban-takeover-canada/

#Afghanistan #Canada #Refugees

Second Chance Bikes
2 months ago

Anybody want to help get this in some little kid's hands Tuesday? It is it great shape except tires are shot. I have training wheels and a replacement seat previously donated. I added this set of two tires and tubes to the wish list. I have six other larger kids bikes to fix and probably have most needed parts.
#bike #RecycledCycles #kids #refugees

14 inch "hot wheels" red  kids bike
Amazon posting for the needed tires and tubes added to wishlist
Kriszta Satori
2 months ago

'The number of people taking the world’s deadliest #migratory route – across the central #Mediterranean – to reach the #EU has more than doubled.

As #migration returns to the top of #Europe ’s political agenda, including in Britain, Europe’s border and coast guard agency said on Friday irregular arrivals had risen by 13% between January and July to 176,100, the highest number for the period since 2016'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/11/more-than-2000-people-missing-at-sea-as-use-of-deadliest-route-to-eu-doubles?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#refugees #Med

Natalie Sedacca
2 months ago

Weeks of the government screaming that of course the Bibby Stockholm barge is safe and anyone suggesting otherwise is an idiot biased lefty lawyer - then days after the first asylum seekers are moved there they have to be evacuated because of potentially deadly bacteria. Their lives have been uprooted and health put at risk for performative cruelty https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/11/legionella-discovery-forces-asylum-seekers-off-bibby-stockholm-just-days-after-arrival

#AsylumSeekers #refugees #health #humanrights

Alexander Hay
2 months ago

But oh, it gets worse, as #Refugee charity, #Care4Calais is now reporting the government did NOT inform #Refugees about the presence of #Legionnaire's disease on the #BibbyStockholm prison barge, or immediately move them off once they knew it was there.

Worse, there is the possibility they were still moving refugees onto the barge even once the problem was known.

#UK #News #Dorset #Tories

https://web.archive.org/web/20230811192112/https://www.facebook.com/care4calais/posts/pfbid0qKeAmU8Rro7ucZY9TkAULLYpzRypmBqAzVGNrMeyURfUGkGHZPpGvkSC2B25rUrzl

A Facebook post (oh, do stop complaining), published 11/08/2023, at 18:57 BST, by Care4Calais, a charity supporting refugees in France, Belgium and the UK. It documents serious allegations against the British government and its handling of the notorious Bibby Stockholm prison barge. 

At the bottom is an aerial shot of the barge, which does indeed look rather carcereal. There are 72 likes, including   Angry and Sad faces, plus 11 comments and 27 shares.

The post says (edited for length):

"...This morning, it emerged that unsafe levels of Legionella pneumophila bacteria had been found in the barge's water supply... Because of this risk, everyone on the barge should have been evacuated immediately. 

"However this did not happen. 
At lunchtime we were contacted by three men on the barge who had not been informed of the outbreak, nor warned to avoid the water....  It transpired that other refugees were on the barge, but none knew of the danger....

"The Government must now explain:

"• When the results of the legionella testing, which took place on July 25 were known. 
• If it followed its own guidelines in re-commissioning the heating and ventilation systems on board the barge.
• Why people were not told about the risk to their health once the authorities were aware of it.
• Why people were kept on the barge, and why more transfers were attempted, when the presence of the bacteria was known.
• If everyone who was aboard the barge has been tested for Legionnaire's disease..."
eurozerozero
2 months ago

Every day, Britain slips closer to the dystopian end-times world from Children of Men…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-12/bibby-stockholm-evacuated-after-bacteria-found-in-water/102721780

(seriously, what kind of psychopath thought up the idea of putting them on a barge?)

#ChildrenOfMen #UK #Britain #Refugees #AsylumSeekers #BibbyStockholm

Alexander Hay
2 months ago

...And it ends with this total kicker.

"...Even before news of the #Legionella #Bacteria broke, other health concerns over the barge were emerging.

"Oxford-based GP Dr Dominik Metz said that he was concerned about risks to #AsylumSeekers, after one of his patients who was being treated for latent #Tuberculosis was told he was being moved to the barge."

#UK #News #Dorset #BibbyStockholm #Refugees #Tories

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-66476538

Alexander Hay
2 months ago

The slowest of slowclaps now ensues. Also, note the use of 'migrants'.

"#Migrants are being temporarily removed from the #BibbyStockholm barge after traces of #Legionella #Bacteria were found in the on board water system.

"The #BBC understands that routine testing was done before migrants moved on to the vessel, moored in #Dorset.

"But test results showing traces of the bacteria came back only after migrants had moved to the barge..."

#News #UK #Refugees #Tories

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-66476538

Natalie Sedacca
2 months ago

“I feel they are being treated like livestock, only slightly worse, as livestock are prohibited from being transported with active infection” - the doctor treating an an asylum seeker with latent tuberculosis who’s been told they will be moved onto the Bibby Stockholm barge https://inews.co.uk/news/home-office-asylum-seeker-tb-bibby-stockholm-health-fears-2537035

#AsylumSeekers #refugees #migration #Health #PublicHealth

Greg Dance
2 months ago

@erictopol

This Friday we see refugees being herded into prison barges & being micro monitored with all resources available to UK authorities

While a ‘Variant of Interest’ (WHO) runs amok across the country as authorities announce that no one under 65 will get a booster.

Long Covid has, & still is smothering the lives of millions, but that isn’t important, whereas kettling thousands of victims in a cramped barge is 'OK'

Arrogant & irresponsible, the Tory’s new norm!

#covid #refugees

Lauren Hall-Lew
2 months ago

From Homeless Network Scotland: "The Illegal Migration Act bans almost everyone fleeing war and persecution from claiming asylum in the UK. You can add your name to this open letter to the Prime Minister organised by the joint council which includes the Scottish Refugee Council and Just Right Scotland. Take action now" -- https://www.jcwi.org.uk/not-in-our-name-sign-our-open-letter-to-the-pm

#sign #pleasesign #petition #asylum #refugees #UK

David Stirrup
2 months ago

Corporate profits are responsible for 60% of inflation, but sadly no one can think of a way to slow inflation down, not even the politicians who are owned by corporations. It’s not like taxing the shit out of profits would help us transition to clean energy to avoid an influx of refugees when wild fire reduces southern Europe to ash. #politics #ClimateChange #refugees #corruption #Profit https://normalislandnews.substack.com/p/british-gas-thrilled-to-announce?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email