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Poland will no longer receive Ukrainians

10 June 2022

As from July 1, Poland will suspend the allocation of funds for the 2 million Ukrainian refugees on its soil. This measure will not apply to pregnant women, women with many children and the disabled.

Turkey to repatriate one million Syrian refugees

10 May 2022

A tiny secular far-right group in Turkey, the Victory Party, was successful in widely circulating a video against Syrian immigrants in the context of the current economic crisis.
As a result, all the political parties are calling for them to be returned to Syria.
Initially, in 2011, Turkey (...)

France deprives Lebanon of its caregivers

20 September 2021

Following a visit to Beirut, the Director-General of the World Health Organization and the Regional Director of its Eastern Mediterranean office lamented the fact that 40% of doctors in Lebanon and 30% of registered nurses have emigrated from the country in the span of a few weeks.
Tedros (...)

Clinton, Bush and Obama welcome Afghan refugees

15 September 2021

Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have launched Welcome.US, an organization aimed to help bring Afghan refugees to the United States of America.
"We are a nation of welcomers called to meet this extraordinary moment.
The United States has long been a beacon of hope for (...)

Turkey to expel Daesh jihadists starting on 11 November

11 November 2019

On 7 November, at a press conference with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared that his country would continue to receive migrants, but that without the financial aid of the European Union, he was going to "open the gates."
The European Union (...)

UNHCR Communiqué on Northern Syria

Geneva (Switzerland) | 10 October 2019

Hundreds of thousands in harm’s way in northern Syria
The escalation of conflict in northern Syria risks causing more human suffering and adding new displacement to what is already the largest displacement crisis in the world.
Tens of thousands of civilians are on the move to escape the (...)

The Venezuelan Disinformation Campaign

6 September 2019

In August 2018, the international press reported on a massive exodus of Venezuelans fleeing the famine and chavist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro. There were 18,000 to cross the border each day. At the time, the UN predicted that there would be 5.3 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees (...)

Donald J. Trump’s Address to the Nation on the Crisis at the Border

by Donald Trump

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 8 January 2019

My fellow Americans: Tonight, I am speaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border.
Every day, Customs and Border Patrol agents encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country. We are out of space to hold them, and we (...)

Letter from Donald Trump to the Congress dealing with immigration

by Donald Trump

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 4 January 2019

Dear Members of Congress:
Congratulations to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and her entire team, on her election to be Speaker of the House. I look forward to working together on our shared priorities for the American People, including rebuilding our infrastructure, reforming unfair trade deals, and (...)

The Aim of the Global Pact on Migration

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 17 December 2018

While seven states have already refused to sign the Global Pact on Migration, (which it is claimed was drafted in their interests), Thierry Meyssan revisits the history of this document and the philosophy which inspired its authors. The two strands of thought that thread this document together (...)

António Guterres and the “fakes news” of the Pact on Migration

14 December 2018

More than 150 states have registered for the conference on the adoption of the Global Pact for sure, orderly and regular migration of Marakesh [Note: the reference document in English is entitled Global Pact but the UN translates it as the World Pact].
In his introductory remarks, the UN (...)

«Current Concerns», n°26, November 28, 2018

Migrations as weapons of war

Zurich (Switzerland) | 14 December 2018

For a factual clarification of history, causes and effects of migration. A new book by Hannes Hofbauer, An Interview with Hannes Hofbauer / Sustainability and free trade – No to one-way liberalisation. Consistent approach to sustainable development, by Schweizerische Vereinigung für einen starken (...)

Trump authorizes those that fled Syrian to return under the protection of President al Assad

31 July 2018

Following the Nato Summit and the Helsinki Summit, Russia and the United
States have agreed to evacuate Western personnel from Syria and to
repatriate Syria refugees.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US partner Donald Trump have
agreed to consider only a very small minority (less (...)

António Vitorino: New Head of the IOM

2 July 2018

The Portuguese Socialist Antonio Vitorino has been elected director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
This organization had been created the day following the Second World War to manage the displacement of people, a direct consequence of implementing peace treaties. It is (...)

“The Art of War”

Neocolonialism and the « migrant crisis »

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 28 June 2018

The « migrant crisis » is currently diminishing in Europe, but will probably amplify dramatically in the next few years. The gigantic population displacements which are in preparation are the consequence of the on-going economic exploitation of (...)

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