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Racism plays a key role in migrants’ exclusion and violations of rights in the European Union

Brussels, 2 May 2017 – Anti-migrant political discourses and exclusionary migration policies are having a disproportionate impact on racialised migrants, according to a new report by the European Network Against Racism, covering 26 EU countries. Migrants are increasingly the targets of racist violence and speech; and face discriminatory policies and attitudes hindering their access to the labour market.

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#cartographie #visualisation:
▻http://enar-eu.org/Visualizations

Lien vers le rapport:
▻http://enar-eu.org/IMG/pdf/shadowreport_2015x2016_long_low_res.pdf

Yemeni refugees find safety and hope at school in Djibouti

Using a scrunched up piece of tissue between her fingers, 20-year-old Gada dabs at her eyes between the slit in her black niqab face veil. After more than a minute’s silence it is obvious she can’t conjure words to answer the question: how bad was it in Yemen before you left?

▻http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/yemeni-refugees-find-safety-and-hope-at-school-in-djibouti-1.2703066

#Yémen #asile #migrations #réfugiés #réfugiés_yéménites #Djibouti #école #éducation

Fintan O’Toole: Brexit fantasy is about to come crashing down
▻http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-brexit-fantasy-is-about-to-come-crashing-down-1.2698974

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id you ever see a slightly drunk man trying that trick with the tablecloth? He thinks he can whip the cloth off the table with a fast, clean snap, but leave all the crockery perfectly intact. He gives a sharp tug and stands back with a triumphant flourish as the plates and glasses come flying to the ground and shatter all around him.

That’s what Brexit is like. Those who have driven it have successfully pulled the cloth off the table – the underlying fabric of modern Britain has been whipped away with a shocking suddenness.

They stand in triumph, sure that they have pulled off the trick of removing a whole layer of political reality without disturbing all the family tableware. They have yet to notice that so much that was on the table is now at their feet, broken, perhaps irreparably.

#brexit #irishtimes

Held in Greece beside a closed border and EU relocation law

’We try to explain the situation to them but many remain hopeful the border will reopen’

▻http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/held-in-greece-beside-a-closed-border-and-eu-relocation-law-1.2587159
#Grèce #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Ritsona #camps_de_réfugiés #campement

Selfishness on refugees has brought EU ‘to its knees’
▻https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/selfishness-on-refugees-has-brought-eu-to-its-knees-1.2477702

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The “ruinously selfish” behaviour of some member states towards refugees has brought the European Union to its knees, former attorney general Peter Sutherland has said.

In a sharp denunciation of Europe’s failures on migration and social integration, Mr Sutherland, who is special representative to the United Nations secretary general for migration, said political “paralysis and ambivalence” was threatening the future of the EU and resulting in the rise of xenophobic and racist parties.

With a population of 508 million, the EU should have had no insuperable problem welcoming even a million refugees “had the political leadership of the member states wanted to do so and had the effort been properly organised,” Mr Sutherland said. “But instead, ruinously selfish behaviour by some member states has brought the EU to its knees.”

Mapping the State: Ireland as you’ve never seen it

▻http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/mapping-the-state-ireland-as-you-ve-never-seen-it-1.2438285

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‘We didn’t call it ‘the state we’re in’, or ‘look at the state of us’. It’s Mapping the State. And it’s very deliberately meant to be nonpolemical,” says JP O’Malley of Zero-G, a Dublin design agency.

He was part of the team that has created a new visual aid to help people understand and navigate Ireland’s legislative, judicial, executive and local-government structures.

It has been done using a map, but not in a way that resembles any country we know. Instead this map of the Irish State is made up of parts of countries and islands around the world – including some choice selections, such as the Cayman Islands to represent AIB.

#irlande #cartographie #visualisation #cartoexperiment

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards ?
▻http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/the-comedy-wildlife-photography-awards-1.2452932

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et le clou du spectacle :

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(et j’ai pas tout mis !)

#animaux

Après les 343 universitaires du Royaume Uni, ce sont plus de 120 universitaires d’Irlande qui s’engagent pour le boycott universitaire d’israel :

Academics and Israel
The Irish Times, 4 novembre 2015
►http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/academics-and-israel-1.2415778

▻http://seenthis.net/messages/422386

#Palestine #BDS #Boycott_universitaire #Irlande

Une grande pétition d’universitaire britanniques pour le boycott universitaire d’israel :

« Nous ne travaillerons pas avec les universités d’Israël »
343 universitaires du Royaume-Uni, The Guardian, 27 octobre 2015
▻http://www.aurdip.fr/nous-ne-travaillerons-pas-avec-les.html?lang=fr

#Palestine #BDS #Boycott_universitaire #UK

La guerre contre l’État islamique : un nouvel épisode de guerre froide | Middle East Eye
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/opinions/la-guerre-contre-l-tat-islamique-un-nouvel-pisode-de-guerre-froide-17

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Après avoir affirmé que les « rebelles modérés » sont essentiellement #al-Qaida et similaires...

En d’autres termes, les #États-Unis et la #Turquie soutiennent activement des rebelles syriens « modérés », en l’espèce al-Qaïda, qui représenteront dans les prochaines années « une menace plus importante que Daech pour la sécurité mondiale », selon les projections du cabinet d’analyse de risques Valen Global, basé à Washington D.C.

... l’auteur retourne l’accusation : le camp saoudo-turco-franco-étasunien combat-il vraiment ISIS ?

Cela ne veut pas dire que les questionnements au sujet de la Russie sont infondés. Il est clair que les interventions intéressées de Vladimir Poutine en Syrie ont pour objectif de maintenir au pouvoir le très dur Bachar al-Assad, et ce en écrasant les rebelles qui cherchent à le renverser.

Mais les journalistes occidentaux, qui répètent bien sagement les propos du Département d’État américain, ont tous oublié de lui poser les questions qu’ils ont à juste titre posées à la Russie : pourquoi la coalition sous commandement américain refuse-t-elle de bombarder les puits de pétrole de l’État islamique et ses convois pétroliers ?

Les surprenantes conclusions d’une étude de l’université de Greenwich, publiée en mars par la Maritime Security Review, au sujet des réseaux de trafic illégal de pétrole de l’État islamique donnent à réfléchir.

Dirigée par George Kiourktsoglou, maître de conférences sur la sécurité maritime et ancien stratégiste auprès de la compagnie Royal Dutch Shell, et par le Dr Alec Coutroubis, directeur par intérim de la faculté d’ingénierie et de sciences, cette étude montre que les attaques aériennes américaines, turques et du Golfe sur les « infrastructures pétrolières » de Daech ne sont pas allées assez loin : « Les puits d’extraction dans les régions bombardées n’ont pas encore été pris pour cibles par les États-Unis ou par les forces aériennes alliées, ce qui peut être imputé aux politiques parfois ‘’toxiques’’ menées au Moyen-Orient . »

Les deux universitaires, qui ont déjà apporté des preuves par le passé devant le Comité spécial des Affaires étrangères du parlement britannique, ajoutent que, malgré les importants convois qui transportent le pétrole de Daech à travers la Syrie, l’Irak et la Turquie, « les attaques aériennes américaines et alliées ne visent pas les camions par peur de provoquer une contre-réaction de la part des habitants » (même si tuer jusqu’à un millier de Syriens ne semble déranger personne). En conséquence, « les opérations de transport se déroulent efficacement et sont menées la plupart du temps en plein jour ».

Donc, les États-Unis ne s’attaquent pas directement aux ressources financières de l’État islamique — ses infrastructures pétrolières œuvrant sur le marché noir — mais, à la place, font équipe avec des groupes affiliés à al-Qaïda qui sont eux-mêmes à l’origine de l’apparition de Daech, et ce dans le but de s’en prendre à Bachar al-Assad. Et pour la Russie, bien qu’elle continue à montrer les dents, le plus urgent semble pour l’instant de contrer les manœuvres sous commandement américain visant à renverser Bachar al-Assad ; pour arriver à ses fins, l’armée russe s’attaque directement aux adversaires les plus directs du président syrien.

En d’autres termes, nous avons là une nouvelle guerre froide entre deux empires concurrents, dont les éternelles victimes sont les Syriens. Quant à l’État islamique, il n’est rien de plus que l’enfant illégitime d’un conflit par procuration prêt à escalader.

Quand des artistes irlandais évoquent à leur façon les enfants morts de Gaza sur une plage de Dublin...

Artists pay tribute to the lost children of Gaza
►http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/artists-pay-tribute-to-the-lost-children-of-gaza-1.2277699
#art#happening#gaza2014#irlande

Artists pay tribute to the lost children of #Gaza
►http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/artists-pay-tribute-to-the-lost-children-of-gaza-1.2277699

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Irish News 2 mins 7 secs To mark the one year anniversary of the 556 Gaza children killed last summer an installation has been set up on Sandymount Strand in Dublin to pay tribute to those lost.

#Israel #meurtre #enfants

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Notre chance, la spécificité de la situation grecque actuelle, ce sont les mouvements sociaux apparus au cours de la période précédente mais aussi les contradictions de Syriza : le fait que ce parti ne constitue pas (encore ?) une forme bureaucratique figée, fossile, définitivement centralisée, le fait qu’il demeure encore poreux aux mouvements sociaux, aux luttes et aux processus collectifs de réponse à la crise et à la réorganisation néo-libérale ― une réorganisation qui s’opère dans le cas de la Grèce par le vide, la table rase et la déstructuration de la production.

#dette #austérité #Grèce #Syriza #Tsipras #socialisme #luttes #mouvements #autogestion #occupation

Greek island is gateway to EU as thousands flee troubled homelands

Lesvos is doing its best to help huge numbers of refugees seeking a safer life in Europe

▻http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/greek-island-is-gateway-to-eu-as-thousands-flee-troubled-homelands-1.223
#Lesbos #Lesvos #Grèce #migration #asile #réfugiés

Marriage referendum: In the name of equality

▻http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorial/marriage-referendum-in-the-name-of-equality-1.2218506

On Friday when we vote on amending the Constitution to recognise same-sex marriage, this State will, we hope, take an important, modernising step to shake off a legal conservatism that our people have already put long behind them. We are no longer that country.

We will not, as some suggest, redefine marriage – those of a religious persuasion will continue to define it as they wish, the sociologists and anthropologists will keep their own definition. We will vote only to change the legal definition of marriage to extend protection and support to a new class of people who wish to commit themselves to a permanent loving union. Firstly in the name of equality: “I’m not sure it’s necessary to get into sexual orientation . . .” Chief Justice John Roberts argued in the ongoing US Supreme Court review of the issue. “I mean, if Sue loves Joe and Tom loves Joe, Sue can marry him and Tom can’t. And the difference is based upon their different sex. Why isn’t that a straightforward question of sexual discrimination?” It is.

#irlande #homosexualité #marraige_homosexuel

‘Black Tulip’ retrieves the fallen from Ukraine’s battlefields
▻http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/black-tulip-retrieves-the-fallen-from-ukraine-s-battlefields-1.2180062

Slyusar is one of about 30 volunteers who regularly cross into separatist-held territory to find and retrieve the bodies of Ukrainian troops killed in fighting with the Russian-backed militants. They call their organisation “Black Tulip”, which was the nickname of a Soviet plane that brought the Red Army’s dead home from Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Their work is always sensitive, sometimes dangerous and often horrific, but Slyusar describes it as a patriotic duty to Ukraine’s servicemen and their relatives.
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Based in a small town about 40km from the frontline, Black Tulip can be called into action at any hour, whenever the separatists give them clearance and security guarantees to work in a certain area.
“The militants didn’t want Ukrainian soldiers doing this task, so as civilians we stepped in to help,” says Slyusar.
“We have to watch for unexploded ordnance and mines, and sometimes it’s tense with the militants, but we’ve found a way to work.”
Black Tulip returns soldiers’ remains to government-held territory and then passes them to the Ukrainian military, which conducts DNA identification and contacts relatives of the deceased.
Donations
The group receives no government funding, and relies on donations to feed and equip its members and to maintain three ageing vans marked “Gruz 200” – “Cargo 200” – military code across the former Soviet Union for soldiers killed in action.
Black Tulip is one of countless volunteer organisations that have sprung up in Ukraine, since last year’s revolution, to perform vital services that are neglected by a crisis-ridden and near-bankrupt state.

New Government Bill to speed up asylum process

Requests for refugee status and other protection being streamlined

▻http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/new-government-bill-to-speed-up-asylum-process-1.2056888
#Irlande #asile #migration #révision #Loi_sur_l'asile

The protest of Syrian refugees trapped in Greece demand basic rights

On November 19 & 20, 2014 hundreds of Syrian asylum seekers including families, women and children,
gathered in front of the Greek parliament in Athens, calling Greek government and European Union to assist with their situation.
Thy held photographs of asylum seekers packed tightly onto boats at sea and placards demanding their fundamental right.

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#Syrie #réfugiés #asile #migration #Grèce #manifestation

Agence France-Presse : Ukraine creates de facto border around separatist zone
▻http://news.yahoo.com/ukraines-warring-sides-trade-blame-school-shelling-002533611.html

Ukraine announced passport controls around pro-Russian separatist territories Thursday, as heavy artillery fire erupted in rebel-held Donetsk and Russia accused its neighbour of “crudely” violating the ceasefire.

Ukraine’s border guards service said anyone crossing in or out of rebel areas will now have to present a passport. Foreigners will “be sent to filtration points to determine the purpose of their visit” and will have “to show a passport or the required visa,” a statement said.