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Jul 16th, 2008 - 10:35:20 |
stefan barbic
Hi, new group members! Please share your stories and post articles/images/blog. Thanks- Stefan
May 21st, 2008 - 09:27:29 |
stefan barbic
The Goree Gazette is online! Please visit www.freedimensional.org or you can also click the link in the Documents & Links section (Goree Gazette).
May 8th, 2008 - 20:03:45 |
stefan barbic
Please read this article by Renata Goldirova on EU and migrant detention.
EU states oppose putting lid on migrants' detention
> 08.05.2008 - 09:17 CET | By Renata Goldirova
> EU member states have failed to agree the maximum
> period an migrant can be kept in detention after
> setting foot onto the union's territory, further
> prolonging nearly three-year-long wrangling between
> EU institutions.
>
> On Wednesday (7 May), EU diplomats discussed the
> draft of a return directive, which would set out
> common rules on how to deal with Europe's eight
> million migrants found to be here illegally,
> including the length of time they can be detained
> and banned from re-entry.
>
> The draft law suggests a maximum detention policy of
> six months, with the possibility of extending it to
> up to a total of 18 months, but only in very
> specific circumstances.
>
> According to the Reuters news agency, more than 10
> countries voiced their opposition towards the text.
>
> Currently, the maximum detention period is decided
> by each government. For example, France has a 30-day
> limit on detention, while Malta have an 18-month
> maximum and the UK imposes no limit.
>
> Last month, Maltese interior minister Carmelo Mifsud
> Bonnici was cited as saying by the Malta Star that
> his country prefers that the detention arrangements
> remain in the hands of member states "because of our
> particular circumstances".
>
> Austria, Germany and Greece are also reported to
> have reservations about EU-wide rules on the issue.
>
> In addition, the draft EU law has already been
> attacked by Socialist members of the European
> Parliament and non-governmental sector, although for
> different reasons. They consider the six-month
> detention period too long.
>
> According to the European Council on Refugees and
> Exiles (ECRE), a network of 63 organisations active
> in asylum policy affairs, detention should only be
> used as a last resort.
>
> "We consider that systematic detention of people who
> have committed no crime, including families and
> vulnerable persons is inhumane and unwarranted," the
> NGO says.
>
> ECRE also opposes the idea of member states being
> able to impose a five-year-long entry ban on
> immigrants' return to the EU, claiming such a move
> could be an obstacle to family reunification as well
> as to the right to international protection.
>
> "Changes in a country of origin, and thus the
> individual's need for international protection,
> cannot be predicted," reads the statement.
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May 7th, 2008 - 13:08:47 |
stefan barbic
We've arrived in Dakar and are meeting with organizations and media to help spread the word about the Dakar Action Lab. Please look at article we just posted from the NY Times about Boubacar Bah, a 52-year-old tailor from Guinea, who died at the Elizabeth Detention Center, an immigration jail in New Jersey.
May 2nd, 2008 - 17:28:29 |
stefan barbic
The Action Lab (and its resulting pamphlet) has
been included in Transcultural Exchange's 'Here, There
and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of the Future'
(http://transculturalexchange.org/herethere/rules.htm)
series of events and publication.
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