Eritrean refugee radio hotline gears up for looming winter
Show host #Meron_Estefanos helps refugees navigate everything from the perilous Mediterranean sea crossing to Europe’s complex asylum process
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/eritrean-refugee-radio-hotline-erena-winter
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‘After Lampedusa, everybody was talking about protecting refugees; now we’re talking about how to keep them away’
Radio host, activist and co-founder of the International Commission on Eritrean Refugees, #Meron_Estefanos is a leading voice on irregular migration and human trafficking on both sides of the Mediterranean. Now living in Sweden, Estefanos is from Eritrea, a country ruled by a repressive, military dictatorship which uses forced labour, indefinite military service and brutality to sustain itself. As a result, Eritrea has produced tens of thousands refugees. According to UN figures, around 4,000 Eritreans left the country each month in the first half of 2014. Here Estefanos explains exactly what Eritreans are fleeing from and what Europe can do to help them.
“They beg to be called #refugees, but #Israel calls them infiltrators”
▻http://africasacountry.com/they-beg-to-be-called-refugees-but-israel-calls-them-infiltrators
Since February 2011, #Meron_Estefanos has acted as an interpreter, negotiator and kind of lifeline for Eritrean refugees held hostage in the #Sinai_desert. Meron’s story recently appeared on #This_American_Life, the Chicago based radio program. As the show documented in a one-hour episode on August 9 (you can still download and listen to […]