Greece's non-functional asylum service
UNHCR reports that between 1 April 2016 and 6 October 2017, 1,360 people have been returned from Greece to Turkey. The majority – 593 –...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 18, 20172 min read
Winter looms, but Greece remains unprepared
There are increasing signs that although the situation at refugee camps on the Greek mainland in terms of winterisation is likely to be...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 18, 20172 min read
Libya: refugees held in hangars following torture
More than 14,000 people are being held in a hangar by the Libyan ‘government’ according to the United Nations. They have been ‘rescued’...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 17, 20172 min read
Iraq and Yezidis: troops seize Sinjar
Iraqi and Iranian-backed forces have seized the Yezidi city of Sinjar, where in August 2014, IS committed one of its most horrific...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 14, 20174 min read
Operation Sofia: causing deaths at sea
Those of you who have been receiving these updates for a little while now will be well aware that the EU’s policy in Libya has less to do...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 12, 20173 min read
UNESCO - the US' attack on the UN
Israel and the US have announced that they will leave UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural protection body, with the latter citing...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 9, 20175 min read
The UN: defined by structural flaws
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Joanathan has told the Rhodes Forum that far from preventing wars, the UN has ‘only succeeded in...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 3, 20173 min read
The (lack of) Calm Before the Storm: Iraq, Syria and the international community
In an article for the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies, Lieutenant Colonel Dr Mordechai Kedar warns that Shias in Iraq and in...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 2, 20174 min read
A Spectre is haunting Europe; but not the one you may think
The official end of the EU’s refugee relocation programme, begun in September 2015, came at midnight on 26 September 2017. Despite...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 2, 201716 min read
A Tale of Two Cities: Referenda in Catalunya and Erbil
This week began with an internationally-condemned independence referendum in a regional capital in an intensely strategically-important...
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