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Jul 16, 2019
15 min

The St Valentine’s Day Charade: Khalifa Haftar, the cause of and main actor in, Libya’s second civil

In April this year, Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar declared that he would ‘push the (Libyan government) out of Tripoli’. Since then, he ha...

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The United Nations Does Not Exist: notes on the UN and humanitarianism for aid workers and other int

Rory O'Keeffe

Jun 27, 2019
20 min

The United Nations Does Not Exist: notes on the UN and humanitarianism for aid workers and other int

The United Nations does not exist. More to the point (though ‘more to the point’ may seem counterintuitive here), the UN Security Council...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Feb 22, 2019
7 min

Refugee evictions to begin in Greece

HUNDREDS of men, women and children in Greece are to be removed from their homes by the end of March. Thousands more are expected to foll...

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The withdrawal of funds from Idlib will strengthen, not weaken, HTS

Rory O'Keeffe

Feb 12, 2019
5 min

The withdrawal of funds from Idlib will strengthen, not weaken, HTS

Having been working on the international humanitarian response to the Syrian Civil War – and its effects across the world – for several y...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Dec 10, 2018
10 min

Curious November: movement and winter

More than 30,000 (30,138) people have arrived in Greece by sea since 1 January 2018: 254 more than arrived by sea in the whole of 2017. A...

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Blame; or, very few stories have only one side

Rory O'Keeffe

Nov 5, 2018
13 min

Blame; or, very few stories have only one side

In brief: More than 1,000 people arrived by sea to the Aegean islands this week; Vagiochori closes (officially on 2 November, but some pe...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 22, 2018
9 min

Numbers: the missing 17,951?

There are at least 17,951 people who were registered as refugees and/or made an application for asylum, in Greece, from 1 January-18 Octo...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Apr 28, 2018
19 min

Movement and the gathering storm

Thessaloniki, 28 April Arrivals to Eastern Aegean islands, 1 January – 26 April 2018, inclusive Lesvos, 4,613. Total arrivals since 3 Apr...

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Greece - an ongoing, and growing, crisis

Rory O'Keeffe

Apr 6, 2018
29 min

Greece - an ongoing, and growing, crisis

Arrivals to Eastern Aegean islands, 1 January – 4 April 2018, inclusive Lesvos, 3,079. Total arrivals since 30 March: 351. Chios, 397. To...

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Open Arms? Closing borders and refusing to talk is handing Europe to the far-Right

Rory O'Keeffe

Mar 30, 2018
33 min

Open Arms? Closing borders and refusing to talk is handing Europe to the far-Right

The – justified – outrage over the impounding of the ship ‘Open Arms’ has its roots in Italy’s refusal to make a case for aiding refugees...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Mar 20, 2018
20 min

The EU/Turkey Deal, two years on

The exact date of the anniversary of the initiation of the EU/Turkey Deal is a matter of some debate, as the document was signed on 16 Ma...

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Oxfam - 'reveal', shame and threaten: the UK government's effort to revenge campaigning

Rory O'Keeffe

Feb 12, 2018
10 min

Oxfam - 'reveal', shame and threaten: the UK government's effort to revenge campaigning

Two weeks ago to the day, we published a piece here about the rising attacks on Oxfam and the entire humanitarian sector by the UK and in...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Jan 29, 2018
8 min

Politicians, and the problem we face

Rob Wilson, the former UK Charities Minister, has used his column in the national newspaper the Daily Telegraph to attack an internationa...

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UN rejects US' declaration of Jerusalem as Israeli capital

Rory O'Keeffe

Dec 21, 2017
3 min

UN rejects US' declaration of Jerusalem as Israeli capital

The United Nations has voted – overwhelmingly – to reject the US’ recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel. Of the 193 member-states...

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The problem with the EU/Turkey Deal is not its 'failure', but its absolute immorality, and i

Rory O'Keeffe

Dec 21, 2017
3 min

The problem with the EU/Turkey Deal is not its 'failure', but its absolute immorality, and i

In an actually quite dangerous article, Greek national newspaper Kathimerini this morning pretends that the EU/Turkey Deal ‘is failing’. ...

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US threatens aid cut, aims to wreck international system, using Jerusalem

Rory O'Keeffe

Dec 20, 2017
4 min

US threatens aid cut, aims to wreck international system, using Jerusalem

The US government has threatened to cut aid to states which vote against it tomorrow at the UN General Assembly. As noted here previously...

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Men at refugee camps: overlooked and under-served

Rory O'Keeffe

Dec 17, 2017
5 min

Men at refugee camps: overlooked and under-served

The following is a note about a topic on which the author of this review has written at length, on a number of different occasions, for a...

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The system isn't working: debt, poverty and coercion forces refugees back to the unsafe places t

Rory O'Keeffe

Dec 16, 2017
3 min

The system isn't working: debt, poverty and coercion forces refugees back to the unsafe places t

At Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, an increasing number of people are being forced to return to Somalia even as the war they fled there cont...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Dec 16, 2017
2 min

What's in a name? Greece and Macedonia

Greek national newspaper Kathimerini reports with outrage this morning that Radmila Sekerinska, the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Min...

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Greece and EU policy of refugee detention is unjustifiable; torture

Rory O'Keeffe

Dec 16, 2017
3 min

Greece and EU policy of refugee detention is unjustifiable; torture

Human Rights Watch warns that the Greek government is failing to provide protection to women and girls in the Aegean detention centres, l...

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