<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799940945196702649</id><updated>2012-02-01T21:48:27.112+01:00</updated><category term='peacereporter'/><category term='soccorsi'/><category term='liberazione'/><category term='romania'/><category term='barcone'/><category term='omissione di soccorso'/><category term='Zerai'/><category term='pizzolante'/><category term='UNHCR'/><category term='norvegia'/><category term='profughi'/><category term='everyone'/><category term='fuggiti dalla libia'/><category term='AsKavusa'/><category term='Egitto'/><category term='carcere'/><category term='carceri'/><category term='Habeshia'/><category term='Senza Confine'/><category term='amisnet'/><category term='Diritti Umani'/><category term='Nato'/><category term='deportazione'/><category term='Sinai'/><category term='ARCI'/><category term='Tunisia'/><category term='respingimenti'/><category term='arisc'/><category term='l’ASGI'/><category term='reinsediamnto'/><category term='Lampedusa'/><category term='guardian'/><category term='immigrazione'/><category term='Consiglio Italiano per i Rifugiati'/><category term='elicottero'/><category term='fortresseurope'/><category term='Tripoli'/><category term='ospitalità'/><category term='Eritrei'/><category term='aircraft'/><category term='tortura'/><category term='ismailiya'/><category term='Libro'/><category term='migranti'/><category term='mediterraneo'/><category term='ra'/><category term='FCEI'/><category term='evacuazione'/><category term='prigione'/><category term='parlamento europeo'/><category term='mediterranean'/><category term='Etiopi'/><category term='ostaggi'/><category term='Libia'/><category term='trasferimento'/><category term='ACLI'/><category term='suez'/><category term='sopravvissuti'/><category term='misna'/><category term='Rifugiati'/><category term='gommone'/><category term='traversata'/><category term='perseguitati'/><title type='text'>A.H.C.S</title><subtitle type='html'>Agenzia Habeshia per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo.
E-mail: agenzia_habeshia@yahoo.it http://twitter.com/#!/AgenziaH</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Agenzia Habeshia per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13879849684419607117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O2jGbXtp5yw/SQzKZi-LBDI/AAAAAAAAAHA/WMBq-okN_Vg/S220/Logo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1615</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799940945196702649.post-4941842927734400476</id><published>2012-02-01T21:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T21:48:27.133+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Der Macher des Herrn</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #272627; font-family: SpiegelSans-Bold; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #272627; font-family: SpiegelSans-Bold; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #272627; font-family: SpiegelSans-Bold; font-size: xx-small;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Pater Zerai: Mittler und Mahner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Er kommt nie ohne Handy und selten&lt;br /&gt;
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im Talar. Er betritt den Petersplatz, er&lt;br /&gt;
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fällt auf unter den Ordensbrüdern und&lt;br /&gt;
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Vatikan-Pilgern. Er hat ein strahlendes&lt;br /&gt;
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Lachen, das Handy am Ohr und&lt;br /&gt;
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an den Füßen Sandalen. Seit drei Jahren&lt;br /&gt;
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lebt Pater Mussie Zerai, ein Priester&lt;br /&gt;
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aus Asmara in Eritrea, 34 Jahre alt,&lt;br /&gt;
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im Vatikanstaat und ist verbunden mit&lt;br /&gt;
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der Heimat und dem Meer.&lt;br /&gt;
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Vor bald 20 Jahren kam er als Einwanderer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
nach Italien. Priester wollte er&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
werden, solange er denken kann, sein&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vater bestand darauf, dass er studierte.&lt;br /&gt;
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In Rom jobbte er als Marktschreier,&lt;br /&gt;
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Schuhputzer, Zeitungsjunge, er&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
erforschte das Leben auf der Straße.&lt;br /&gt;
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Irgendwann bekam er eine Aufenthaltsgenehmigung,&lt;br /&gt;
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kümmerte sich um&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Eritreer und Äthiopier aus der katholischen&lt;br /&gt;
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Exilgemeinde in Rom und legte&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
2000 sein Priestergelübde ab.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Vor drei Jahren zog er hinter die Mauern&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
des Vatikans, ins Äthiopische&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Priesterkolleg, in dem sich Geistliche&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
aus dem Ex-Kaiserreich Abessinien&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
weiterbilden. Er bekam ein Stipendium,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
um seine Doktorarbeit über die&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Geschichte der Seelsorge zu beenden.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Zu den Mahlzeiten im Refekto rium&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
mit 25 Priestern und Nonnen erscheint&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
er selten. Denn lange vor der&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Berufung in den Vatikan findet er seine&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mission – Landsleute retten, die&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
nicht bequem wie er im Flieger nach&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Europa reisen, sondern in morschen&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Nussschalen ohne Wasser und Brot.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Pater Zerai ist der Rettungsschwimmer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Afrikas, kein Schleuser; ein Mittler,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
ein Mahner. Er springt nicht ins&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Wasser, er alarmiert diejenigen, deren&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Pflicht es ist, Menschen aus Seenot zu&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
retten. Seine Handynummer wird gehandelt&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
wie kostbares Gut an den&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Stränden von Zarzis, Djerba und Bengasi.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Sie wird im Radio von Tunesiern&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
und libyschen Rebellen verlesen und&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
im Flüchtlingslager von Lampedusa&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
auf Papier gekritzelt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Flüchtlinge melden sich bei Pater Zerai,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
wenn ihr Kahn leckt oder sie die&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Orientierung verloren haben. An den&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Satellitennummern auf seinem Display&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in Rom erkennt er diese Anrufer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sofort, auch an der Todesangst in ihrer&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Stimme. Er sagt, nach dem Ausbruch&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
der Revolution in Libyen habe&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
er bis zu 150 Anrufe am Tag bekommen.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dann macht Zerai das, was er&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
seit fünf Jahren macht: Er ruft die italienische&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Küstenwache an und gibt die&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Koordinaten an die Nato-Kommandozentrale&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in Neapel durch, die auch die&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Libyen-Mission leitet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Seit den Umstürzen im Maghreb kommen&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
noch mehr Flüchtlinge nach&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Europa, und Europa überlässt sie ihrem&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Schicksal auf See. Wie Ende März,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
als ein Boot mit 72 Insassen zwei Wochen&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
vor der libyschen Küste trieb und&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
nur neun Äthiopier überlebten. Ihr&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Kahn drehte im Kreis, sie hatten noch&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
zwei Tuben Zahnpasta, die sie auf die&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bootsplanken drückten und aufleckten.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Nach drei Tagen warfen sie die&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
ersten Toten über Bord. Die Überlebenden&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sagten, nach dem Anruf bei&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Pater Zerai hätten sie ein Nato-Schiff&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
gesichtet, dann einen Helikopter. Hilfe&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
war angekündigt, blieb aber aus.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Die Festung Europa, sagt Zerai, schotte&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sich ab, sie habe keinen Plan. Er ist&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
davon überzeugt, dass sich der Zustand&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
eines Landes daran messen&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
lässt, wie es Einwanderer behandelt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Zur Aufklärung des Dramas im Frühjahr&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
setzte der Straßburger Europarat&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
erstmals einen Untersuchungsausschuss&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
ein, auch dank des Kampfs von&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Pater Zerai.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Er sagt, der Herr habe ihn beschenkt&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
mit Talent für das Leben im Diesseits,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
er sei praktisch veranlagt, kein Denker,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
ein Macher. Ende des Jahres läuft&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
sein Stipendium aus, er soll in die&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Schweiz versetzt werden. Als Diener&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
im Weinberg des Herrn, als Seelsorger&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
in Genf, auch dort gibt es eine Gemeinde&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
von Flüchtlingen aus Eritrea&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
und Äthiopien. Er wird gehorchen,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
die Mauern um den Vatikan wird er&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
nicht vermissen, seine Mission bleibt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
FIONA &amp;nbsp;EHLERS&lt;br /&gt;
DER SPIEGEL&lt;br /&gt;
Italienkorrespondentin&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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Sweden plans to give priority to refugees from Somalia and Eritrea in its efforts to resettle 1,900 United Nations (UN) refugees in 2012. 
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”We are really happy, of course, that we can offer 1,900 places again this year,” said Christina Werner, the CEO of the Migration Board (Migrationsverket) to TT news agency.

Each year, the Riksdag allocates funding allowing the agency to bring between 1,700 and 1,900 refugees to Sweden under the UN’s quota programme.

Just like the previous two years, the agency will focus mainly on the areas of conflict on the Horn of Africa – but also people who are escaping unrest in north Africa.

The majority are Somalis fleeing to Kenya and Djibouti, but also Eritrean and Ethiopian citizens who are now in Sudan.

Sweden has cooperated with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) since 1950 regarding refugee quotas. 

This year Sweden allocated 250 places for people who are forced to flee from fast emerging conflicts.

This is a resource that will only be used when necessary, and has come about since the UNHCR increased the need for quick-relief efforts.

350 places were set aside for other emergency measures.

Werner pointed out that Sweden is the biggest recipient of refugees in Europe, and that the refugees are often forced to live for long times under appalling physical conditions and mentally desperate circumstances.

“It is people who have been in refugee camps for more or less long periods of time and who don’t have the chance to get out in any other way,” she said.

In terms of the novelty of the 250 places reserved for those affected by so called ‘flare-up’ conflicts, Werner points out that it allows Sweden flexibility in the areas where the refugees come from.

“We won’t need to be locked to specific locations, but we can act in the areas where UNHCR say are in need of the most help,” she said.
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Lampedusa lo sa - Assalti Frontali&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=nJ92cjWwQv8"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=nJ92cjWwQv8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Un museo dell'immigrazione creato dall'Associazione Lampedusana Askavusa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/799940945196702649-1803910660611496475?l=habeshia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=nJ92cjWwQv8' title='Museo dell&apos;immgrazione a Lampedusa'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/feeds/1803910660611496475/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=799940945196702649&amp;postID=1803910660611496475' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default/1803910660611496475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default/1803910660611496475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/2012/01/museo-dellimmgrazione-lampedusa.html' title='Museo dell&apos;immgrazione a Lampedusa'/><author><name>Agenzia Habeshia per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13879849684419607117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O2jGbXtp5yw/SQzKZi-LBDI/AAAAAAAAAHA/WMBq-okN_Vg/S220/Logo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799940945196702649.post-8185484996375114271</id><published>2012-01-24T19:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T19:27:52.056+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Inchiesta della TV Svizzera sul mancato soccorso in Mare da parte della NATO</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;
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Mare deserto&lt;/h4&gt;
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di Emiliano Bos e Paul Nicol&lt;/h5&gt;
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Fine marzo 2011. In Libia è appena iniziato l’intervento militare voluto dall’Onu a sostegno dei ribelli anti-Gheddafi. I migranti fuggono dalla guerra. Un barcone - uno dei tanti – salpa da Tripoli verso Lampedusa. Ma non ci arriverà mai, perché il carburante finisce prima. Nessuno li avvista. Com’è possibile, visto che in quel momento il Mediterraneo pullula di navi e velivoli militari, della Nato ma non solo? Un elicottero militare getta ai profughi bottiglie d’acqua e un po’ di biscotti. Poi se va e non torna a soccorrerli. Perché? Il gommone resta incredibilmente alla deriva per 15 giorni nel Canale di Sicilia, incrociando almeno un paio di grandi imbarcazioni militari e pescherecci. Dei 72 a bordo, moriranno in 63. Falò ha rintracciato tutti i 9 superstiti, tra Italia, Tunisia e Norvegia. Ha ascoltato le loro testimonianze. Ha raccolto documenti. E ha costretto la Nato – che per mesi ha negato ogni coinvolgimento - ad ammettere di aver ricevuto una chiamata d’allarme. Ora sulla tragedia indaga il Consiglio d’Europa.&lt;/div&gt;
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From the Office of Abune Berhaneyesus Souraphiel C.M, ArciEparchy of Addis Abeba: Fw: Shocking News please Urgent action is needed‏&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"&gt;To Whom It May Concern;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"&gt;We are concerned Ethiopians in Diaspora, who closely follow our detained 35 Ethiopians in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia while they were gathering in a home to celebrate Christmas in December 2011, which is allowed according to the law of the country. From these innocent prisoners, 29 of them are women who some of them left their children in their home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"&gt;We hope that you heard the news which is spread all over the world through different mass media including VOA Amharic Service on Jan 12, 2012. Our Ethiopian brothers and sisters are beaten and suffocated in a tiny space (10mx5m) together with 400 other prisoners without enough food and medical attention. For this reason many of them are sick and three people died. They are forced to stand or sleep on the top of other prisoners by taking turns. Above all, our sisters were humiliated and abused to the extent that they felt being raped as a religious police was allowed to put her hand in their private parts using a single glove to all of them without changing the glove that they couldn’t handle the situation but rather to die. All their crime is being Christians and celebrating Christmas in their home without breaking the country’s law.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"&gt;To defy these types of cruel activities, we sincerely urge the international community to remind the government of Saudi Arabia of this crime on humanity, to respect international law, and to comply with its own national law. We urge all international humanitarian bodies to save our brothers and sisters by providing necessities and medical support.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"&gt;To stand for humanity means to stand for ourselves!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"&gt;To Ethiopian government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"&gt;All concerned Ethiopians in Diaspora.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Polizia Sudanese coinvolti nel traffico di profughi Eritrei :- Ieri sera alle 21.00 ho ricevuto da 13 ragazzi ora in ostaggio nel Sinai, ma la cosa gravissima che questi ragazzi hanno raccontato circa un mese fa di essere stati venduti ai trafficanti di etnia Rashayda dalla polizia sudanese"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sudanese police involved in the trafficking of Eritrean refugees:&lt;/b&gt; - Last night I received at 21.00 hours from 13 young boys now hostage in the Sinai, but the most serious thing that these guys have reported about a month ago they were sold to traffickers by the police of ethnic Rashayda Sudan&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="."&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Questi ragazzi una volta varcato il confine eritreo-sudanese, si sono consegnati loro stessi alla polizia sudanese sperando di trovare protezione, successivamente la polizia doveva accompagnarli al campo profughi di Sheghrab come da prassi, questo credevano questi ragazzi."&gt;These guys once crossed the border of Eritrea-Sudan, surrendered themselves to the Sudanese police, hoping to find protection, then the police had to accompany them to the refugee camp Sheghrab as is normal, it believed these guys.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Invece la polizia di frontiera che si trova nella località chiamata Hafir (Kassela) gli ha venduti ai trafficanti a questi Rashayda, i quali gli hanno rivenduti ai predoni del Sinai, dove ora sono in ostaggio da un mese, gli viene chiesta per la loro liberazione"&gt;Instead, the border police found in the place called Hafir (Kassel) has sold to the traffickers in these Rashayda, who sold him to the robbers of the Sinai, where they are now hostage for a month, it is asked for their release&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="$25 mila a testa."&gt;$ 25 thousand to the head.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Altri casi il 12 gennaio 2012 alle ore 15.50 ho ricevuto una disperata richiesta di aiuto da una donna che si trova prigioniera dei trafficanti,
 insieme con lei ci sono altre 20 donne di cui 5 sono con figli quindi ci sono 6 bambini e 12 maschi adulti,"&gt;Other cases January 12, 2012 at 15:50 I received a desperate call for help from a woman who is a prisoner of the traffickers, along with her are 20 women, 5 of which are with children so there are six children and 12 adult males,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="gli uomini sono bendati e legati con catene mani e piedi, le donne in catene solo ai piedi."&gt;men are blindfolded and chained hands and feet, women in chains only to walk away.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="La donna che ha chiamato per chiedere aiuto, parla delle continue maltrattamenti, privazione di cibo, e violenze."&gt;The woman who called for help, talks about the continuous mistreatment, starvation, and violence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Altri gruppi di ostaggi parlano di abusi sessuali su le donne, ma ci sono stati anche diversi casi di abusi sessuali anche su ragazzi maschi."&gt;Other groups of hostages speak of sexual abuse of women, but there were also several cases of sexual abuse of young boys also.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Le diverse metodologie di torture utilizzate, dalle scariche elettriche a quelle bruciature con plastica fusa, sigarette o ferro arroventato."&gt;The various methods of torture used by electric shock to those burning with molten plastic, cigarettes or red-hot iron.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Le minacce dei trafficanti a chi non paga somme fino a 30.000 dollari restano quello della vendita degli organi
 che un mercato fiorente in quella regione come stato già dimostrato ampiamente anche da mezzi di comunicazione di massa."&gt;The threat of smugglers who do not pay money up to $ 30,000 of the sale of organs remain a thriving market in that region as has already been amply demonstrated also by means of mass communication.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Facciamo appello alla Comunità Internazionale, in particolare alla Comunità
 Europea, in primis al governo italiano, per un forte intervento presso le autorità sudanesi perché intervengano sulla gravissima complicità di alcuni poliziotti che sono divenuti complici dei trafficanti, che sopratutto nelle zone di confine e intorno ai"&gt;We appeal to the international community, particularly the EU, primarily to the Italian government, for a strong intervention from the Sudanese authorities to intervene on the complicity of some very serious policemen have become accomplices of the traffickers, especially in border areas and around&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="campi profughi sono dediti al traffico di persone."&gt;refugee camps are dedicated to trafficking in persons.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326883189743965" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Chiediamo un impegno della diplomazia del Unione Europea per spingere questi
 stati a porre fine a questi atti di crudeltà e crimini contro persone vulnerabili, chiediamo anche interventi per la prevenzione, quindi chiedere una lotta preventiva contro
 il traffico di organi e di esseri umani, con una"&gt;We ask a commitment of the diplomacy of the European Union to push these states to put an end to these acts of cruelty and crimes against vulnerable people, we also ask for the prevention interventions, and then ask for a pre-fight against the trafficking of organs and human beings, with a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="campagna informativa e offrire un alternativa ai profughi in Sudan e in Etiopia, è necessaria una azione dell'INERPOL per distruggere la rete dei trafficanti di esseri umani e di organi."&gt;information campaign and to offer an alternative to refugees in Sudan and Ethiopia, dell'INERPOL action is needed to destroy the network of traffickers in human beings and organs.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="La Comunità Internazionale deve
 pressare gli stati coinvolti da questo traffico e il flusso di denaro macchiato di sangue di innocenti che viene incassato in Eritrea, Sudan, Egitto, Israele, Dubai, e in
 buona parte del Nord Africa, Medio Oriente e l'Europa."&gt;The international community must press the states involved in this traffic and the flow of money stained with innocent blood that is collected in Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt, Israel, Dubai, and in much of North Africa, Middle East and Europe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: garamond, times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
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Sono partiti domenica dal campo per rifugiati di Shousha in Tunisia per la Norvegia, 33 minori non accompagnati nell’ambito del processo di reinsediamento.&lt;/div&gt;
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Fanno parte di un gruppo più numeroso di 90 minori arrivati non accompagnati dalla Libia durante il 2011. Alcuni di loro erano già senza genitori quando sono arrivati in Libia; altri li hanno persi o se ne sono separati successivamente. La maggior parte di loro proviene dalla Somalia, dal Sudan, dall’Etiopia o dall’Eritrea.&lt;/div&gt;
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Sono 3.400 i rifugiati che vivono a Shousha. Tra loro, i minori non accompagnati hanno potuto contare sull’aiuto di amici e parenti, oltre che sull’assistenza degli operatori umanitari locali e internazionali. Complessivamente - dei 90 minori - 39 sono stati reinsediati, principalmente in Norvegia, Svezia e Danimarca. Avevano creato forti legami tra loro e la partenza - per molti - è stata dolorosa. Così come per coloro che sono ancora in attesa di reinsediarsi.&lt;/div&gt;
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Resta difficile la vita nel campo di Shousha, in un’area battuta dal vento ed esposta al freddo pungente. L’Alto Commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i Rifugiati (UNHCR) e le agenzie partner auspicano che possano essere trovate soluzioni rapide per i minori non accompagnati che si trovano ancora nel campo. E per gli altri rifugiati ancora in attesa di soluzioni alla loro condizione.&lt;/div&gt;
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L’UNHCR nel campo fornisce assistenza, lavora con i minori e le loro comunità per stabilire l’interesse preminente di ogni minore, sostiene attivamente il reinsediamento e sottopone casi ai paesi di reinsediamento. L’Organizzazione Internazionale per le Migrazioni (OIM) fornisce orientamento sensibile alle specificità dei minori e organizza il trasporto verso le nuove case.&lt;/div&gt;
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Per la maggioranza dei rifugiati riconosciuti fuggiti dalla Libia verso la Tunisia e l’Egitto - secondo l’UNHCR - il reinsediamento costituisce l’unica opzione percorribile. I due paesi hanno consentito a centinaia di migliaia di migranti di soggiornare temporaneamente sul loro territorio prima di essere rimpatriati attraverso l’operazione congiunta UNHCR-OIM. Queste Agenzie hanno esortato gli stati - in particolare europei - a offrire un maggior numero di posti per il reinsediamento per i rifugiati che rimanevano alle frontiere di Egitto e Tunisia.&lt;/div&gt;
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L’UNHCR ha completato le procedure di determinazione dello status di rifugiato per tutti i 2.500 richiedenti di Shousha: 2.200 di loro sono stati riconosciuti rifugiati. Insieme ad altre 800 persone che sono state riconosciute come rifugiati in Libia prima dei disordini del 2011, sono oltre 3.000 i rifugiati che dal campo di Shousha hanno sottoposto il loro caso per il reinsediamento.&lt;/div&gt;
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Le richieste di reinsediamento inviate da Shousha e Saloum sono state sottoposte e accettate da Australia, Belgio, Canada, Danimarca, Finlandia, Irlanda, Norvegia, Paesi Bassi, Portogallo, Svezia e Stati Uniti. Più di recente Germania, Nuova Zelanda e Spagna si sono unite all’impegno per il reinsediamento, programmando l’invio di missioni di selezione nel campo di Shousha e a Saloum.&lt;/div&gt;
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Decisioni rapide sulle richieste di reinsediamento. È ciò che l’UNHCR chiede ai paesi di reinsediamento. Attualmente solo un caso di rifugiati su 5 viene accettato e finora solo 1 rifugiato su 6 - 731 in totale - è effettivamente partito.&lt;/div&gt;
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I centri di transito d’emergenza dell’UNHCR in Romania e Slovacchia stanno poi fornendo spazio aggiuntivo di fondamentale importanza per intervistare i rifugiati provenienti da Tunisia ed Egitto prima del reinsediamento, in particolare verso gli Stati Uniti e i Paesi Bassi.&lt;/div&gt;
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In risposta all’esodo di cittadini di paesi terzi nei paesi limitrofi della Libia, l’UNHCR e l’OIM hanno lanciato un programma congiunto di evacuazione umanitaria attraverso il quale nel corso del 2011 circa 210.000 persone hanno fatto ritorno in patria.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #595959; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;L'indagine dopo le accuse del portavoce militare di Nairobi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;(ANSA) - NAIROBI, 16 GEN - Il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'Onu ha dichiarato inconsistenti le accuse nei confronti dell'Eritrea di aver fornito armi ai militanti di al Shabaab in Somalia, come sostenuto dalle forze di difesa del Kenya. Il gruppo di sorveglianza dell'Onu ha indagato in particolare sul traffico aereo tra ottobre e novembre scorso verso Baidoa, citta' a sud della Somalia controllata dai miliziani islamici legati ad al Qaeda. Secondo l'Onu i rapporti forniti dall'esercito kenyano erano errati.&lt;/span&gt;
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There are concerns that the Israeli government's planned restrictions on migrants may exacerbate the plight of refugees and asylum seekers in the Sinai.&lt;/div&gt;
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The Illegal Migrants Bill passed in the Knesset last week allows for the arrest and imprisonment of anyone caught crossing into Israel illegally.&lt;/div&gt;
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Refugees may be detained for up to three years without trial or deported back to their country of origin. Israelis who assist them face between five and 15 years in prison.&lt;/div&gt;
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According to Italian NGO, Agenzia Habeshia, a group of 20 women, six children and 12 men from Eritrea are being held hostage in the Sinai.&lt;/div&gt;
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The men are reportedly blindfolded and chained by their hands and feet, while the women are shackled.&lt;/div&gt;
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There are reports that the women and some of the young boys are being subjected to sexual violence.&lt;/div&gt;
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In addition, the group is facing starvation and additional torture in the form of electric shocks and burns.&lt;/div&gt;
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The group is being held by Bedouin human traffickers, who are reportedly demanding $30,000 or the sale of an organ for their release.&lt;/div&gt;
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Christian Solidarity Worldwide said the majority of those likely to be affected by the new Israeli law are people fleeing brutal regimes in sub-Saharan Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It said the Bill will "effectively criminalise genuine refugees" and curtail the amount of assistance they can receive from humanitarian NGOs.&lt;/div&gt;
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CSW’s Advocacy Director Andrew Johnston called upon Israel to respect its obligations under the UN Refugee Convention and reconsider the law.&lt;/div&gt;
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“CSW appreciates that the flow of people in search of refuge may present challenges," he said.&lt;/div&gt;
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"However, the Illegal Migrants Bill will criminalise vulnerable and traumatised people, who deserve protection, and is in clear violation of international humanitarian law."&lt;/div&gt;
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High Commissioner António Guterres with Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees in Shagarab I camp, eastern Sudan.&lt;/div&gt;
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KHARTOUM, Sudan, January 13 (UNHCR)&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="arial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;UN refugee agency chief António Guterres ended a visit to Sudan this week by hailing efforts towards lasting solutions for thousands of long-staying refugees in eastern Sudan, while raising concerns about the trafficking of vulnerable people in the region, including asylum-seekers.&lt;/div&gt;
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"Our refugee programme in Sudan is one of the oldest in Africa, at 45 years. Since then, the government has been hosting refugees from many countries generously," Guterres told journalists in Khartoum on Thursday. Acknowledging the strain that generations of hospitality has put on the Sudanese people, he announced plans to launch an initiative "aimed at helping long-staying refugees become more self-reliant through livelihood projects while also supporting the local community through development projects."&lt;/div&gt;
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The transitional solutions initiative is supported by the government and will be jointly implemented by UNHCR, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank, starting with a few pilot camps in the east.&lt;/div&gt;
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Earlier on Thursday, the High Commissioner travelled to Kassala in eastern Sudan to meet the country's largest concentration of refugees, numbering more than 86,000. Many had fled fighting over the past half century between Eritrea and Ethiopia, but the majority were born in Sudan's camps, where they share the ethnicity, language and religion of their host community.&lt;/div&gt;
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At Shagarab I camp, Guterres met refugee women who had benefited from a micro-credit scheme funded by UNHCR. Among them was Asha Adam, 28, who has been trained to make handicrafts and to run a small business. With an initial loan of 150 Sudanese pounds (about US$56), she started a small "cupboard" shop in her parents' home, selling biscuits, tomato paste and soap bought from the local market.&lt;/div&gt;
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"It's going well," said the Eritrean refugee, who was born and bred in the camp. "I hope to expand my business into a proper shop that sells more daily necessities like sugar and coffee. My parents are old and my two brothers have daily-wage jobs in the market, so this will help to increase the family's income."&lt;/div&gt;
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While at Shagarab, the High Commissioner also met some of the recent arrivals. Every month, some 2,000 asylum-seekers reach the camp, mostly single young men from Eritrea. Some come to escape military service back home, others just want a better life elsewhere. Most of them leave the camp within two months of arrival, using smuggling networks to circumvent restrictions on movement and continue their journey to Khartoum, the Middle East or Europe.&lt;/div&gt;
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Younas, 25, fled Eritrea after enduring years of low pay and harsh conditions in the military. In his four months in Shagarab I camp, he has tried twice to go to Khartoum, which he feels is safer for a deserter. Twice he was arrested and sent back to the camp. But he is determined: "As long as I'm alive, I'll keep trying to find a safer place to go."&lt;/div&gt;
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Speaking to a group of recent arrivals, Guterres said, "It's painful to see so many young people become victims of trafficking and kidnapping. Some are even killed. We are prepared to support the government to crack down on the smugglers and to protect the victims."&lt;/div&gt;
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He added, "This is not only a Sudanese problem, it is a global problem that calls for many countries in the region to respond."&lt;/div&gt;
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During his Sudan visit, the High Commissioner addressed another pressing issue&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="arial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;the future of an estimated 700,000 southerners living in Sudan after South Sudan seceded in July last year. Some 110,000 of them have so far been registered to return to South Sudan, but are stranded in Khartoum and other areas due to a lack of funds, transportation and security.&lt;/div&gt;
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He listened to their problems when he visited a departure point at Mayo Mandella in south-eastern Khartoum on Wednesday. Some 245 families originally from the south have been living in makeshift shelters here, some of them for more than one year.&lt;/div&gt;
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"If you want to serve us, please help us to speed up the transportation," said one woman at Mayo Mandella. There are not enough trains and barges to go south, and some roads are unsafe for travel, especially through conflict-affected areas like South Kordofan.&lt;/div&gt;
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Guterres, who had visited South Sudan earlier this week, noted, "Both governments have agreed to a bilateral plan of action, which we hope will be established in the near future to allow for a more effective return to the south. This will involve air movements for the most vulnerable people, but the opening up of safe convoys by land will be most crucial."&lt;/div&gt;
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Israel encourages Jewish immigration and allows those with Jewish ancestry to immigrate and naturalize even if they are not considered Jewish under religious law. In addition, a migrant labour policy adopted in the 1990s has brought several hundred thousand workers from Asia, Africa, and South America. Meanwhile Israel limits Palestinian access to residency and family reunification, and denies Palestinian refugees’ right of return. Since the early 1990s, Palestinian work permits have been increasingly restricted while foreign migrant labour, which is considered a more secure alternative to Palestinian labour, has been encouraged.&lt;/div&gt;
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By the mid-1990s, the burgeoning number of non-Jewish migrants began to stir public agitation and the government responded by limiting migrant work permits and increasing the detention and deportation of migrants. Deportations dramatically increased after the establishment of the Immigration Authority (IA) in 2002, an agency tasked with implementing deportations along with the police (Berman 2007, pp. 7-8). IA also oversaw rapid expansion of Israel’s detention complex, with the number of places allocated for immigration detention increasing from 260 in 2002 to 1,300 by 2003 (Kav LaOved &amp;amp; HMW 2003, p. 1). By the end of 2010, Israel’s detention capacity had grown to an estimated 2,500 beds (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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Since 2006, Israel has experienced a new wave of immigration comprised of asylum seekers from Africa (HMW 2007, p. 3; Martins 2009, p. 7). Most of these asylum seekers—estimated to number some 30,000 by 2010—have come from Eritrea and Sudan, crossing the Egyptian border into Israel (IRIN 2010). The country was ill-prepared to deal with this influx and in the absence of national asylum laws these migrants have often faced ad hoc and arbitrary treatment (HRW 2008).&lt;/div&gt;
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The influx of asylum seekers and irregular migrants has triggered concerns that they pose socio-economic problems, and that they threaten the Jewish character of the state (Martins 2009; AP 2010). The government has responded with a number of increasingly restrictive measures.&lt;/div&gt;
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In 2009, the government created a specialized immigration force called the Oz Unit, which is tasked with deporting all of the country’s more than 200,000 irregular residents. In January 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to build a wall along the country’s border with Egypt because, according to Netanyahu, the country “cannot let tens of thousands of illegal workers infiltrate into Israel through the southern border and inundate our country with illegal aliens" (Al Jazeera 2010a). Several months later, in November 2010, Netanyahu announced that the government would build a massive new detention facility to confine up to 10,000 so-called infiltrators—unauthorized non-citizens—in order to “significantly reduce the economic incentive for them to arrive in Israel” (CNN 2010). And Israel’s Knesset has proposed a new “infiltration” law whose draconian measures regarding detention and deportation of asylum seekers led a coalition of Israeli human rights groups to describe it as “one of the most dangerous bills ever presented” (ACRI et al 2010).&lt;/div&gt;
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The majority of asylum seekers and irregular migrants arrive in Israel after transiting Egypt. Termed “infiltrators” by the government, these non-citizens are either detained under the authorisation of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) or immediately turned back to Egypt as part of an unofficial “Hot Return” policy, a practice that has been criticized by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as contrary to international law (Weiler-Polak 2009). In August 2007 a group of human rights organizations filed a petition to the High Court of Justice contesting the legality of this practice (&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Hotline for Migrant Workers et al v. Minister of Defence&lt;/em&gt;), which is still pending (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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Most people apprehended at the border are sent to Saharonim Detention Centre in southern Israel, which has been the subject of intense criticism for detaining migrant children alongside adults (Haaretz 2010). Immigration detainees at the facility are held under administrative orders of detention issued by the Ministry of Interior (MOI) (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;“Hot Returns.”&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Israeli authorities have undertaken coordinated border patrols with Egyptian police, who have been repeatedly condemned for shooting migrants who attempt to cross into Israel clandestinely (McCarthy 2010). Although there is no formal agreement between Egypt and Israel on returning asylum seekers, in 2007 then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that he had reached an oral agreement with then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak according to which Egypt agreed to accept asylum seekers apprehended at the border. Shortly after the announcement, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced on its website that no such agreement had been made (Berman 2011). Israel has continued to insist in proceedings at the High Court of Justice that such an agreement exists, and human rights groups and UN agencies have documented numerous cases of “coordinated returns” of asylum seekers to Egypt. Human Rights Watch’s 2008 report&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2008/11/12/sinai-perils-0" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Sinai Perils&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;discusses cases in which asylum seekers “sent back” to Egypt were “disappeared” (HRW 2008).&lt;/div&gt;
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In its&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.unhcr.org/4a2d07cd2.pdf" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Global Report 2008&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, UNHCR reported: “Israeli authorities returned several asylum-seekers without giving UNHCR a chance to assess their protection needs. Furthermore, the Office received reports of hundreds of persons of concern, mainly from Eritrea and Ethiopia, who were detained or forcibly returned from Egypt, again without UNHCR having an opportunity to assess their asylum claims. With the exception of some 180 individuals in a prison in Aswan, UNHCR’s efforts to obtain access to the detained Eritrean asylum-seekers in Egypt were unsuccessful in 2008. The Office also received reports about the forcible return of some 30 people to Southern Sudan” (UNHCR 2009).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Legal framework.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Two laws dictate Israeli detention policy for irregular migrants and asylum seekers: the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/emergencyregs/fulltext/preventioninfiltrationlaw.htm" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;1954 Prevention of Infiltration Law&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,LEGISLATION,ISR,,3ae6b4ec0,0.html" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;1952 Entry into Israel Law&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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The&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Prevention of Infiltration&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;law authorizes the Ministry of Defence to detain any “infiltrator,” regardless of whether the person poses a security threat. Article 30 of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Infiltration Law&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;allows the Minister of Defence to issue a deportation order to “infiltrators,” and states that the deportation order is also to be considered a detention order providing for administrative confinement until deportation. This law has no provisions for judicial or administrative review of detention (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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According to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Prevention of Infiltration&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;law, any citizen or resident of a select group of countries (as well as “visitors” to these countries)—including Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Saudi-Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, and Yemen—or any Palestinian who has “left his ordinary place of residence in an area which has become a part of Israel” can be designated an “infiltrator” and be subject to detention and deportation (art. 1). Article 10 adds that a person who “enters Israel without permission or who is in Israel unlawfully is … deemed to be an infiltrator so long as he has not proved the contrary.”&lt;/div&gt;
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An infiltrator can face criminal sanction and be imprisoned for up to five years (art. 2) or seven years if re-entering after having been deported (art 3). If entering while armed or in the presence of an armed person, the infiltrator may be imprisoned for up to 15 years; if carrying a firearm or explosives, life imprisonment (art 4). A person who assists an infiltrator may also be imprisoned for up to five (art. 6) or fifteen (art. 8) years.&lt;/div&gt;
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The 1952&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Entry into Israel Law&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;authorizes the Ministry of the Interior to administratively detain and deport non-citizens for irregular entry (art. 10). Border control officers, operating under the Ministry of the Interior, are empowered to detain a person awaiting deportation if they are not returned on the vessel on which they came. Additionally, irregular entry, the provision of false documents, and/or the violation of a residence permit can result in criminal imprisonment for a maximum of three months (art. 12).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Criminalisation.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Although both the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Infiltration Law&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Entry into Israel Law&lt;/em&gt;provide criminal sanctions for violations, according to a source in Israel, in practice criminal cases are not pursued except in cases dealing with&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Palestinians or persons who entered Israel without authorization several times (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Length of Detention.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;The law does not set a limit to the length of time a non-citizen can be held in administrative detention. After 60 days, authorities have the discretion to release “cooperative” detainees. According to a source in Israel, in practice such discretion is rarely exercised. Authorities consider asylum seekers who refuse to drop their asylum claims to be uncooperative, and thus they are not released until deported (Berman 2011b).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Judicial review.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;In contrast to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Infiltration Law&lt;/em&gt;, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Entry Law&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;provides for “semi-judicial” review of detention orders, although people can be detained for up to four days before the review must take place.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.hotline.org.il/english/index.htm" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Hotline for Migrant Workers&lt;/a&gt;characterizes this review as “semi-judicial” because it is undertaken by a panel of lawyers appointed by the Interior Ministry in consultation with the Justice Ministry, and thus it is not considered to be an independent panel (Berman 2011b).&lt;/div&gt;
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According to a source in Israel, persons apprehended at the border can sometimes be detained for periods exceeding four days before being afforded a review. Typically, border detainees are initially issued a deportation/detention order by the IDF. They are held by the IDF for a few days with no review, then they are transferred to a prison and issued an order under the provisions in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Entry Law&lt;/em&gt;. At this point, they are afforded a review within four days (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Revision of the Prevention of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Infiltration Law&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;In 2006, a bill was introduced in the Knesset amending the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Infiltration Law&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;that would have widened the scope of who is considered an “infiltrator” and increase the severity of penalties.&amp;nbsp;The proposed&amp;nbsp; law's hardline measures regarding detention and deportation of asylum seekers led a coalition of Israeli human rights groups to describe it as “one of the most dangerous bills ever presented” (ACRI et al 2010). Although this bill was eventually withdrawn, in December 2010 a new bill was introduced that would leave criminal penalties in the 1954 law untouched while modifying administrative measures of detention and deportation (Berman 2011). According to Amnesty International, the amendment proposals are intended to serve as a central component of Israel's policy towards refugees and asylum seekers, and would effectively annul Israel’s ratification of the 1951&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/law/legal-framework/international/treaties-and-protocols.html#c892" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self"&gt;Refugee Convention&lt;/a&gt;, which has never been incorporated into domestic law (AI 2010b).&lt;/div&gt;
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Like other migrants, asylum seekers stopped at the border without adequate entry papers are generally detained. While the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Entry into Israel&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;law requires that detention be reviewed within four days, asylum seekers&amp;nbsp;are often detained for weeks or months. Detention times vary widely, and often release only comes after intervention by UNHCR or an NGO (UNHCR 2009b) and sometimes doesn’t come even after such intervention. (HRW 2008, p.76; Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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Formerly, UNHCR was responsible for conducting first-instance refugee status determination and submitting recommendations to Israel’s National Status Granting Body (NSGB) (HRW 2008, p.75). As of July 2009, UNHCR began turning over the handling of refugee status determination to the MOI. This change was codified in guidelines that entered into force in January 2011 (State of Israel 2011). According to a source in Israel, all asylum seekers now have an initial “basic interview” that is undertaken by officials who are not generally trained to conduct RSD (refugee status determination). Following this basic interview, most applicants are summarily rejected. Those summarily rejected have no right to administratively appeal the negative decision, and their only recourse is to initiate a petition to the district court (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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Those who are not summarily rejected—a minority of asylum seekers—have their cases transferred to the RSD unit at MOI. The RDS unit’s recommendations are then sent to the NSGB, and the NSGB’s recommendations go to the Minister of Interior or the Head of the Population and Immigration Registry for a final decision (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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A non-governmental source in Israel characterized the handover of refugee status determination responsibilities from UNHCR to MOI as “simply a disaster.” He added: “Although the RSD clerks receive training, they have been pretty much indoctrinated to perceive all asylum seekers as economic migrants and imposters. For this reason, although MOI reviewed thousands of cases since July 2009, they have not given one single positive recommendation” (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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According to this source, beginning in January 2011, people who apply for asylum at the Ministry of Interior (MOI) have there applications summarily rejected and then they “are taken into custody at the MOI’s offices … creating a chilling effect on asylum seekers and discouraging people from even applying” (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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Although Israel became a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention in 1954, it has never incorporated the provisions of the treaty into domestic law, in part because of fears that doing so would encourage claims to right of return by Palestinian refugees, who fall under the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). A “roundabout route” for assessing non-Palestinian refugee claims has thus been adopted that provides for things like the right to work, temporary protection, and non-refoulement (UNHCR 2007). Despite these measures, Israel consistently refuses to review refugee claims, and many are turned away as part of the “Hot Return” policy along the Egyptian border, or designated as “infiltrators” (ACRI et al 2010).&lt;/div&gt;
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Migrant workers have been subjected to detention and deportation based on a number of grounds related to employment status, place of residency, economic needs, and family status. Until 2005, a controversial “binding agreement” gave employers control over a migrant’s visa. If a migrant wanted to change jobs, or if the employer refused or neglected to renew the visa, the migrant worker could be detained and deported (Kruger 2005).&lt;/div&gt;
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Despite changes to this policy in May 2005, in 2009 migrant rights groups continued to denounce efforts by authorities to detain and deport migrant workers before their work permits had expired in cases where they did not have a job during a three-month period, if their employers did not pay fees for their permits, or if an employer illegally transferred them to another employer (Friedman 2009).&lt;/div&gt;
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Additionally, women can lose their status because of pregnancy, and both men and women are not allowed to have romantic relations with non-Israelis, which can be grounds for revoking work permits. In a February 2011 report on Israel, the UN&lt;a href="http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/law/legal-framework/international/treaties-and-protocols.html#c896" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self"&gt;Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women&lt;/a&gt;highlighted these policies, stating:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;“[T]he Committee is seriously concerned at the State party’s existing policy that migrant workers who give birth must leave the State party with their baby within three months of giving birth or send their baby out of the State party's borders so as to safeguard their work permits. The Committee is equally concerned that marriage and intimate relationships between migrant workers under an existing State party policy constitute cause to revoke the couple's work permits” (CEDAW 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Order 1650 for the West Bank.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Order 1650, or the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.hamoked.org.il/items/112301_eng.pdf" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Order regarding Prevention of Infiltration&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Amendment no. 2)&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;effective April 13, 2009, expands the definition of “infiltrator” presented in a 1969&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.hamoked.org.il/items/112300_eng.pdf" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Order&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;from anyone entering Israel illegally through an “enemy state” to any one present in the West Bank without a valid permit (Hass 2010). Order 1650 subjects anyone without such a permit to deportation, transfer, criminal charges, fines, and/or imprisonment.&lt;/div&gt;
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According to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;B’Tselem&lt;/a&gt;, the order is part of a series of steps to remove Palestinians from the West Bank, and according to Amira Haas it will enable the deportation of thousands (B’Tselem May 2010; Hass 2010). The law employs the term “infiltrator” to describe any person “staying illegally” in the West Bank. Violators can be sentenced to up to seven years in prison. Those who entered the West Bank lawfully but remained after the permit expired are subject to up to three-year prison terms (B’Tselem May 2010).&lt;/div&gt;
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The law has been criticized as a breach of the fourth&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/law/legal-framework/international/additional-sources.html#c2677" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self"&gt;Geneva Convention&lt;/a&gt;, which prohibits forceful transfers or deportations of people in occupied territories, as well as a breach of the obligation undertaken by Israel in the Oslo Accords to recognise the West Bank and Gaza as a single territorial unit (B’Tselem May 2010; Guarnieri April 2010; UN 2010). According to the Israeli NGO&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.hamoked.org/home.aspx" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;HaMoked&lt;/a&gt;, because the order is “worded so broadly” it can allow “the [Israeli] military to empty the West Bank of almost all its Palestinian inhabitants” (Guarnieri April 2010). The Order has been condemned by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.euromedrights.org/en/" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(EMHRN 2010), Amnesty International (AI 2010), as well as other rights groups.&lt;/div&gt;
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An academic study of deportations during the period 2001-2005 concluded that the government’s “deportation campaign was designed to achieve two parallel goals: to lower labour costs by creating a large class of indentured workers through what has been referred to as the ‘binding arrangement’ (a neo-liberal goal) and to deny the grant of civic status to non-Jewish migrant workers (an ethno-national goal)” (Dahan and Gill 2006, p. 1).&lt;/div&gt;
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In July 2009, the government replaced the Immigration Police with a new agency called the Oz Unit (“oz” means strength in Hebrew), which is a specialized police agency that is part of the Ministry of the Interior’s National Immigration Authority. The unit was created with the goal of apprehending the estimated 280,000 undocumented foreigners in Israel by 2013.&lt;/div&gt;
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The unit has been plagued with controversy. According to one media report, “The former head of the Oz unit&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3789426,00.html" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;resigned&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;after only six months on the job in 2009 amid allegations of instilling fear in illegal immigrants and unpaid wages for employees, and the unit was&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=178455" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;faulted&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in a June 2010 State Department report for lacking will to combat human trafficking” (Rosen 2010).&lt;/div&gt;
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According to the U.S. State Department’s 2010 annual&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Trafficking in Persons Report,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;local advocacy groups accused the Oz Unit of “lacking awareness of trafficking and the will to combat it.” The report also stated, “While Oz inspectors were meant to convey information to the police if they encountered suspected crimes against migrant workers, NGOs asserted that this did not happen, and a report by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://newstopics.jpost.com/topic/Knesset" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Knesset’s&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Research and Information Center confirmed shortcomings in the operations of Oz inspectors” (Eglash 2010).&lt;/div&gt;
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Unaccompanied children under the age of 12 are cared for by the Ministry of Social Welfare, which is authorized to find foster homes for them. Minors aged 12-18 are often placed in Israeli boarding schools, depending on the individual circumstances of each case (HRW 2008, p. 78). According to a source in Israel, as of February 2011, there were several dozen unaccompanied minors in detention, most of whom were facing many months in detention awaiting alternative arrangements to be made at boarding schools or foster homes (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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The&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Entry Law&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;stipulates that detained non-citizens may be held in prisons, in places of arrest, in other places declared by the Minister of Interior or the Minister of Internal Security to be “special detention facilities,” or in any other place specified in the deportation order. All detention facilities are operated by the Israel Prison Service (not including the IDF bases used for short-term detention on Israel's border). According to Hotline for Migrant Workers (Berman 2011b), as of February 2011, Israel had an estimated total detention capacity of about 2,500, and six facilities were in use:&lt;/div&gt;
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Israel’s detention estate has undergone numerous changes since the 1990s. According to one report, until 2002, its immigration-related detention infrastructure was limited to a couple hundred places in the Ma’asiyahu Prison, which were generally used to hold&amp;nbsp;unauthorized foreign&amp;nbsp;workers (Kav LaOved &amp;amp; HMW 2003, p. 1). However, with the creation of the Immigration Authority (IA) in 2002 and its mandate to increase deportations of unauthorized residents, the detention infrastructure expanded rapidly. According to a 2003 NGO report, shortly after IA’s founding, “At Nazareth’s Renaissance Hotel, which was converted into a detention facility for migrant workers, 500 places were earmarked. In the south of Israel, a new detention facility called Tsohar was opened, initially with 67 places for detainees but soon slated to have room for 300 inmates. In Hadera, a police facility was turned into a special jail for migrant workers known as Michal, for 84 detainees. As a result, a total of some 1,300 places will be available to the IA for housing detained migrant workers” (Kav LaOved &amp;amp; HMW 2003, p. 1).&lt;/div&gt;
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According to one source, since this 2003 report Maasiyahu has been replaced&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;by Givon Prison; Renaissance and Tsohar were closed; and Michal was closed and then reopened as an administrative juvenile detention centre&amp;nbsp;under the name Matan (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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Until 2006, Israel exclusively used prisons for holding immigration detainees. However, beginning in 2005, the government came under increasing public pressure because of growing numbers of asylum seekers coming to Israel. In 2006, the government began creating separate wards for immigration detainees in prisons. Then, in 2007, in response to public pressure led by student groups concerning the treatment of Sudanese asylum seekers dropped off by the military in the streets of Beersheba, the government established the Saharonin facility, which at first was nothing more than a few caravans located on the site of the Ketziot prison. Now Saharonim is under separate administration and is comprised of several tents (which have cement floors) and buildings (Berman 2011b).&lt;/div&gt;
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According to Human Rights Watch, there have been complaints about inadequate heating in the winter and overheating in the summer, and inadequate educational and recreational activities for children at Saharonim (HRW 2008; see also Wheeler 2007 and UNHCR 2009b). The detention centre has also been the subject of intense criticism for detaining migrant children alongside adults (Haaretz 2010). Saharonim now has separate sections for criminal and immigration detainees, and also for women and children (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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According to HMW, “After a long and intensive campaign by Israeli human rights organizations, a new prison for unaccompanied minors arriving in Israel from the Egyptian borders was established. … The new prison is called ‘Matan’ and it is situated in Hadera, in the same building of the old ‘Michal’ women prison. While ‘Michal’ was run by the Immigration Authority, ‘Matan’ is run by the Prison Authority (HMW 2010).&lt;/div&gt;
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In November 2010, the Knesset voted to build a new detention facility to hold&amp;nbsp; an estimated 10,000 irregular migrants and asylum seekers. It was originally due to be completed in May-June 2011, but Holtine for Migrants Workers told the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/" style="color: #951314; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Global Detention Project&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that it is unlikely the facility will be completed on schedule. In a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu, HMW and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel called the proposed centre "nothing more than a ghetto" (AP 2010). Netanyahu has said that the facility is part of a “multi-pronged” approach that includes construction of a 220-250 kilometre long wall along Egyptian border and increased fines for employers of illegal foreign workers (AP 2010, Al Jazeera 2010b).&lt;/div&gt;
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A September 2010 HMW report provided detailed statistics about the situation of detained families at&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Saharonim (HMW 2010). According to the report:&lt;/div&gt;
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As of August 2010, 1,042 unauthorized residents were being “unlawfully” held for more than 60 days by the Israeli prison authorities. 415 of them had been in detention for more than a year (HMW 2010). "The average imprisonment period of foreign citizens is 521 days. Among them there is a resident of Togo who has been incarcerated in the Givon Prison since 2004—that's six years” (quoted in Branovsky 2010). Commenting on these statistics, the organization said: "Instead of these huge amounts, the State could have released and allowed these detainees to work for a living, or at the very least decided who among them should be granted refugee status. Instead the country just imprisons over 1,000 people, including children who have harmed no one and whose only vice was to enter Israel illegally” (quoted in Branovsky 2010).&lt;/div&gt;
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HMW reports that as of February 2011, Israel had an estimated total detention capacity of about 2,500, and six facilities—three prisons, two migrant detention facilities, and one airport transit facility—were in use (Berman 2011b).&lt;/div&gt;
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According to the Immigration Authority, nearly 11,000 “illegal migrants” entered Israel from Egypt during January-November 2010, a record number (BBC 2010).&lt;/div&gt;
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An estimated 300,000 migrant labourers now reside in Israel, with the largest number coming from the Philippines. There are also large numbers of migrant workers from Thailand, China, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. According to the Interior Ministry (MOI), in 2009 there were some 300,000 “illegal migrants” and approximately 70,700 legal foreign workers in Israel (Paiss 2009). Other government sources report that 120,000 foreign workers with expired visas were working illegally in Israel (AP 2010). However, according to Hotline for Migrant Workers, “there is no actual way to know the exact number of 'illegal migrants.' The MOI regularly disseminates conflicting information. At a certain point they even stated that there were one million ‘illegal migrants’” (Berman 2011).&lt;/div&gt;
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The number of asylum seekers in Israel as of November 2010 was estimated to be 30,000 (IRIN 2010). UNHCR registered nearly 7,500 new asylum claims in 2009, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea. Between 9,000-11,000 Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers received temporary protection that year (UNHCR 2009). Nearly 5,000 asylum seekers entered Israel via Egypt in 2009 (ACRI 2010, p. 7).&lt;/div&gt;
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Only 190 asylum seekers have been granted refugee status in Israel since it signed the 1951 Convention in 1954 (ACRI 2010, p.4; IRIN 2010). In 2009, detention periods for asylum seekers averaged four months (UNHCR 2009b). Most of the asylum seekers detained in 2009 were held in Saharonim/Ketziot prison (1,500) and Givon prison (350) (HMW 2009, p. 5, HMW 2009b, p. 10). 3,300 people were deported in 2008 (HMW 2009, p. 2).&lt;/div&gt;
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A September&amp;nbsp;2010 Hotline for Migrant Workers report (HMW 2010) offered the following detention statistics:&lt;/div&gt;
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A new Israeli law allowing for automatic and lengthy detention of asylum-seekers is an affront to international law, Amnesty International said today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Early on Tuesday the Israeli parliament passed the “Prevention of Infiltration Law”, which mandates the automatic detention of anyone, including asylum-seekers, who enters Israel without permission. It is aimed at those entering via the Egyptian border.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The law allows for all such detainees to be held without charge or trial for three or more years. People from countries considered “hostile” to Israel, including asylum-seekers from Darfur in Sudan, could be detained indefinitely.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Children travelling with parents may also be subjected to the same prolonged detention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Passing and implementing this law flies in the face of Israel’s obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention and other international human rights instruments,” said Ann Harrison, Amnesty International’s Interim Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Israel has the right to protect its borders, but it does not have the right to abandon its international human rights obligations to asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants, or to criminalize them as ‘infiltrators’, which only fuels xenophobia and discrimination.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Together with many Israeli human rights NGOs, Amnesty International opposed the law in its draft form. It was promoted by the Netanyahu government and passed by a vote of 37 to 8 after an overnight debate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Knesset’s legal advisor Eyal Yinon argued that the bill did not meet “minimum constitutional standards”. Legal challenges against the law are expected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Automatic and prolonged detention under the new law violates international standards, which demand that state authorities demonstrate that immigration detention is “necessary and proportionate” and based on detailed individual assessments. Detention should never be used as a punitive or deterrent measure, and irregular migrants and asylum-seekers should not be treated as criminals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An earlier draft of the bill would have criminalized any assistance to those considered “infiltrators”, which would have threatened Israeli human rights organisations and humanitarian groups. The legislation passed would only apply criminal penalties to those assisting people who were armed or engaged in trafficking people or drugs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The “Prevention of Infiltration Law” is part of a larger Israeli strategy to deter asylum-seekers and migrants.&amp;nbsp; The government is planning new immigration detention facilities to hold thousands more people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Many Israelis have a family history which includes asylum-seekers and refugees. This law is yet another betrayal of Israel’s international human rights obligations,” said Ann Harrison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Instead, Israel should deal with asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants in keeping with its stated values and obligations. It should abandon plans to build more immigration detention facilities.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 1951 Refugee Convention was drawn up following World War II in the wake of mass forced displacement of Jewish and other war refugees fleeing persecution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But historically, Israeli asylum procedures have not been fair, consistent or transparent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 2005, approximately 45,000 people have entered Israel via the Egyptian border to seek asylum, the majority of them Eritreans and Sudanese. For the past few years, Israel has barred Eritreans and Sudanese asylum-seekers outright from having their refugee claims heard, in blatant violation of the 1951 Refugee Convention, and has only granted refugee status to a handful of the thousands of applicants from other countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently, most Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers crossing from Egypt are detained for a few weeks before being released.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;(AGIAFRO) - Asmara, 3 gen. - Sara' attivato entro febbraio un progetto che prevede il lancio di corsi di formazione in Eritrea, per soddisfare la domanda di personale tecnicamente qualificato. L'iniziativa sara' finanziata dalla Banca africana per lo Sviluppo (AfDB) e dal governo di Asmara, che per l'iniziativa hanno stanziato rispettivamente 19,2 e 2,06 milioni di dollari. Un comunicato della banca con sede a Tunisi ha precisato che "circa 50.000" giovani eritrei frequenteranno i corsi, che formeranno "tecnici di medio livello", attualmente richiesti dal sistema produttivo di questo Paese. Il vice presidente di AfDB, Kamal Kheshen, ha rilevato che il progetto e' "in linea con la strategia della banca per quanto riguarda i settori dell'istruzione, della scienza e della tecnologia, oltre che con le priorita' attribuite a questi settori dal governo eritreo".&lt;/span&gt;
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Despite great attention paid to the Arab Spring, a ghastly silence prevails about the largest African 'open air prison': Eritrea is so isolated from the outside world that many inhabitants haven't even heard about the revolutions in Libya or the uprising in Syria.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;BRUSSELS (IDN) - The Arab Spring should not stop in Egypt, Yemen or Syria. An even more powerful movement, or an Arab Spring 2.0, is needed for one of the most brutally governed nations in Africa: Eritrea. The people there suffer from there regime more than the people in Libya, Tunisia or Egypt ever have.&lt;/div&gt;
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Eritrea, with about 5 million inhabitants at the coast of the Red Sea, is in the hands of President Isaias Afewerki since April 1991. Leaving the country is almost impossible. The president has laid minefields at the borders. Guards shoot to kill the ones that dare to escape.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;Eritrea is called the "North Korea of Africa". Daniel Bekele, director of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.hrw.org/africa" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 0px; color: #272727; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;Human Rights Watch Africa&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;described it as an "open air prison" in 2011. Despite the huge risks some manage to get out: Eritrea is in the top-three of the world's countries most fled from per capita: about 3,000 Eritreans fleeing the country monthly, according to UNHCR. [1]&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;Children have to leave school to be enlisted in the army, for dozens of years. That is also the case for women, some of whom have to serve as sex slaves for the leaders. The army is so large, that there are hardly men left to sow or to harvest, causing a food shortage. And the country already has a shortage of manpower due to the war with Ethiopia. However, those who escape national service and manage to flee the country without permission are treated as traitors and imprisoned.&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;President Afewerki doesn't even bother to pretend to be democratic. The constitution has never entered into force. The country doesn't have a parliament that meets. Eritrea has only one political party (PFDJ), that doesn’t allow criticism. Ministers that asked the president in 2001 to allow somewhat more democracy were never seen again.&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;The government prosecutes journalists and people with an undesired religion, like Christians. Of the many political prisoners, Dawit Isaac is the most well-known. This Swedish-Eritrean author has been locked up since September 2001, when eight independent papers were forced to close. Human Rights Watch stated in 2011 at the 10th anniversary of the detention of Dawit Isaac: "President Isaias should end the inhumanity of prolonged secret, silent detention and allow family members and international monitors to see the prisoners." [2] According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Eritrea ranks second after Iran, with 28 journalists in detention. [3]&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;Why do people not protest? One reason is of course that the president and the army keep them under control. This control is so strict, that most inhabitants of Eritrea don't even know about the revolution in Libya, where Muammar Gaddafi had to flee and was shot dead. President Afewerki is able to censor this news, to prevent people from getting ideas. To form a group to discuss such matters is of course illegal. The president of Eritrea only allows one movement for men, one for women and one for youth. He considers this to be a sufficient number of non-governmental organisations.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;What can the West do to help the people against this dictator? Theoretically we could spawn him by offering food help or force him by threatening to stop subsidies. The country in the Horn of Africa must also suffer drought and hunger, like neighbouring countries. But no, Eritrea keeps its door closed for aid organisations. It also supports the extremist Muslim group Al-Shabaab that hunts down western aid workers in neighbouring countries.&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;And Eritrea is not interested in receiving EU subsidies, the government has written in a letter sent to the EU recently. [4] According to a blog by Daniel Berhane the Eritrean decision coincided with and "was announced only hours before a scheduled EU-Eritrean Human Rights Dialogue meeting." [5]&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;The EU had reserved dozens of millions of euros for Eritrea, but – I am happy to note – that this money was never paid out. I had written to EU Development Cooperation Commissioner Andris Piebalgs in October 2011 to pledge him not to transfer the funds to the dictator. The West shouldn't support dictatorships, I implored.&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;But then what? Can the United Nations do something? A little, I am afraid. The UN Security Council has placed more sanctions on Eritrea in December 2011, because the country continues to deliver arms and other support to Al-Shabaab. [6] But it remains to be seen whether arms and travel sanctions are of much concern to the dictator.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;The least the EU should do is to support the Eritrean refugees. The millions of euros the EU now has set aside for Eritrea could be spent on supporting refugees in Sudan, South Sudan, Libya, Egypt or Yemen. The camps there are overcrowded: the UN refugee agency UNHCR can hardly handle the situation. Because of the bad situation in the camps, many refugees travel further. They place their fate in the hands of people smugglers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;Some die during their journey in the desert, some drown in the Mediterranean. Others are robbed and extorted. According to interviews with refugees, confirmed in a recent CNN telecast, some refugees even robbed of their organs. Desperate and heart rendering appeals for help are regularly reaching the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://iceritreanrefugees.org/ic/" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 0px; color: #272727; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;International Commission on Eritrean Refugees&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(ICER).&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;Children in the camps grow up to be a 'lost generation' depressed and full of hatred with no future. President Afewerki is well aware of the potential challenge the young generation living outside Eritrea will pose to his country, as they live in growing despair and anger. In an attempt to avert an Arab Spring he recently declared a general amnesty for all the young people who would return to Eritrea.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;A purposeful task for the EU is to offer education for young refugees from Eritrea. The European Commission can pay for scholarships for bright Eritreans to go to African universities. If they are well educated and can one day return to a free Eritrea, they can help establish democracy.&amp;nbsp; Because for sure president Isaias Afewerki, now 65, will die one day, offering an opportunity for change if there will be a trained generation knowing democratic values and able to practise them. Hopefully change can come sooner rather than later – thanks due to an Arab Spring 2.0.&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /&gt;*Mirjam van Reisen is professor International Social Responsibility at the Tilburg University, founding director of the Europe External Policy Advisors (&lt;a href="http://www.eepa.be/" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 0px; color: #272727; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;EEPA&lt;/a&gt;) in Brussels and member of the International Commission on Eritrean Refugees (ICER). A short version of this article was published in Dutch newspaper&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.trouw.nl/" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: dotted; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 0px; color: #272727; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;TROUW&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on January 10, 2011. - IDN Viewpoints reflect opinions of respective writers, which are not necessarily shared by the InDepthNews editorial board. 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&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Lo Stato di Israele nei Giorni scorsi ha discusso e approvato Una Legge Contro l'Immigrazione illegale,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://scr.bi/AwZHVf" id="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196656" style="background-color: white; color: blue !important; cursor: text !important; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;http://scr.bi/AwZHVf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;ma senza distinguere tra richiedenti asilo e gli immigrati, chi in cerca di lavoro e da chi fugge &amp;nbsp;a causa di guerre o dittature che negano la libertà alle persone. Rischiano tutti la deportazione, la nuova legge stata ripresa in particolare contro i richiedenti asilo che entrano nello Stato di Israele dal confine egiziano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Questa legge approvata dal parlamento israeliano è un vero affronto al diritto internazionale. "Il passaggio e l'attuazione di questa legge si scontra con degli obblighi di Israele ai sensi della Convenzione di Ginevra sui rifugiati del 1951 e di altri strumenti internazionali sui diritti umani", come giustamente ha dichiarato Ann Harrison, vice direttore ad interim di Amnesty International per il Medio Oriente e Nord Africa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Israele ha il diritto di proteggere i suoi confini, ma non ha il diritto di abbandonare i suoi obblighi internazionali sui diritti umani, e quello dei richiedenti asilo, rifugiati e migranti, o di criminalizzarli come 'infiltrati', questo genere di politica sono i combustibili per la xenofobia e la discriminazione in molti ambiti della vita dei migranti, ci sono già dei segnali preoccupanti di intolleranza e discriminazioni nei posti di lavoro, scuole.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Secondo la Convenzione di Ginevra del 1951, un rifugiato, o qualcuno che è fuggito dal suo paese per un motivo ben fondato, non possono essere espulsi dal paese in cui lui o lei si è rifugiato, anzi verificati i requisiti devono essere concessi i diritti di base.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Tuttavia, in sostanza, la nuova legge contraddice tale obbligo, permettendo che i richiedenti asilo e profughi siano trattati come dei criminali, solo in virtù della loro situazione di essere persone in fugà.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 20px;"&gt;I richiedenti asilo provenienti dall'Eritrea e dal Sudan, spesso costretti a fare il viaggio attraverso l'Egitto in Israele, anche se il viaggio è diventato più pericoloso i rapporti di attacchi nella penisola del Sinai sono in aumento. Lo confermano le tante testimonianze di Persone che hanno subito violenze indicibili. La nuova legge speriamo solo che abbia lo scopo di scoraggiare ulteriormente le persone che tentino di entrare in Israele.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Attualmente, i richiedenti asilo che vengono presi mentre attraversano la frontiera sono detenuti per alcune settimane prima di essere rilasciati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Fonti attendibili hanno anche riferito che Israele ha un centro di detenzione per immigrati previsto che sarà in grado di contenere 10.000 detenuti, diventando così il più grande impianto di tale livello globale. Creare un Lager di questa entità nello stato di Israele, stride fortemente con la storia stessa del popolo ebraico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196533" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;Israele spero che tratti le Persone richiedenti asilo e i profughi che sono senza documenti, in linea con i valori del rispetto dei diritti umani e civili dichiarati e suoi obblighi internazionali. Israele dovrebbe abbandonare il progetto di &amp;nbsp;criminalizzazione dei profughi e la costruzione di strutture detentive per richiedenti asilo e immigrati, inviterei a spendere più risorse per la prevenzione e lotta contro il traffico di esseri umani e di organi, impegnarsi nella creazione delle condizioni favorevoli per una vita dignitosa e liberi nei loro paesi di origine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196549" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Lo Stato di Israele nei Giorni scorsi ha discusso e approvato Una Legge Contro l'Immigrazione illegale, http://scr.bi/AwZHVf ma senza distinguere tra richiedenti asilo e gli immigrati, chi in cerca di lavoro e da chi fugge a causa di"&gt;The State of Israel in recent days has discussed and approved a law against illegal immigration,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://scr.bi/AwZHVf" id="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196649" style="color: blue !important; cursor: text !important;"&gt;http://scr.bi/AwZHVf&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;but without distinguishing between asylum seekers and immigrants, people seeking work and those fleeing because of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196596" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="guerre o dittature che negano la libertà alle persone."&gt;wars and dictatorships that deny freedom to people.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196598" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Rischiano tutti la deportazione, la nuova legge stata ripresa in particolare contro i richiedenti asilo che entrano nello Stato di Israele dal confine egiziano."&gt;All risk deportation, the new law was taken in particular against asylum seekers entering the State of Israel from the Egyptian border.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196600" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Una volta arrestati, i profughi possono essere detenuti senza accusa né processo per tre o più anni."&gt;Once arrested, the refugees may be detained without charge or trial for three years or more.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196602" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="La legge consente inoltre la detenzione a tempo indeterminato di una persona da un paese considerato &amp;quot;ostile&amp;quot; a Israele, compreso il Sudan."&gt;The law also allows for indefinite detention of a person from a country considered "hostile" to Israel, including Sudan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196604" id="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196650" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Quindi i profughi sudanesi che sono le vittime del regime Sudanese, pagheranno anche per l'ostilità di chi gli ha costretti a fuggire, nei confronti del paese che speravano che gli accogliesse."&gt;So the Sudanese refugees who are victims of the Sudanese regime, will pay for the hostility of those who are forced to flee to the country hoping that uphold.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196606" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Doppiamente Vittime!"&gt;Victims twice over!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196608" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="I bambini che viaggiano con i loro genitori sono incondizionatamente soggetti alla nuova legge, tutto ciò comporterà un grave danno alla vita dei bambini, non che una grave violazione del diritto del infanzia."&gt;Children traveling with their parents are unconditionally subject to the new law, all this will severely damage the lives of children, not that a serious violation of the right of childhood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196610" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite sui diritti del fanciullo (UNCRC), approvata nel 1989."&gt;United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which was approved in 1989.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196612" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Questa legge approvata dal parlamento israeliano è un vero affronto al diritto internazionale."&gt;This law passed by the Israeli parliament is an affront to international law.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196614" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="&amp;quot;Il passaggio e l'attuazione di questa legge si scontra con degli obblighi di Israele ai sensi della Convenzione di Ginevra sui rifugiati del 1951 e di altri strumenti internazionali sui diritti umani&amp;quot;, come giustamente ha dichiarato Ann Harrison, vice direttore ad interim di Amnesty"&gt;"The passage and implementation of this law clashes with Israel's obligations under the Geneva Convention on Refugees of 1951 and other international instruments on human rights", as rightly said Ann Harrison, deputy director of Amnesty's interim&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196616" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="International per il Medio Oriente e Nord Africa."&gt;International for the Middle East and North Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196618" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Israele ha il diritto di proteggere i suoi confini, ma non ha il diritto di abbandonare i suoi obblighi internazionali sui diritti umani, e quello dei richiedenti asilo, rifugiati e migranti, o di criminalizzarli come 'infiltrati', questo genere di politica sono i combustibili"&gt;Israel has the right to protect its borders, but has no right to abandon its international obligations on human rights, and that of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants, or criminalize them as 'infiltrators', this kind of politics are the fuels&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196620" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="per la xenofobia e la discriminazione in molti ambiti della vita dei migranti, ci sono già dei segnali preoccupanti di intolleranza e discriminazioni nei posti di lavoro, scuole."&gt;for xenophobia and discrimination in many spheres of life of migrants, there are already worrying signs of intolerance and discrimination in jobs, schools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196622" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Secondo la Convenzione di Ginevra del 1951, un rifugiato, o qualcuno che è fuggito dal suo paese per un motivo ben fondato, non possono essere espulsi dal paese in cui lui o lei si è rifugiato, anzi verificati i requisiti devono essere concessi i diritti di"&gt;According to the Geneva Convention of 1951, a refugee or someone who has fled his country for a reason well-founded, can not be expelled from the country where he or she has taken refuge, even checked the requirement must be granted rights to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196624" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="base."&gt;the base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196626" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Tuttavia, in sostanza, la nuova legge contraddice tale obbligo, permettendo che i richiedenti asilo e profughi siano trattati come dei criminali, solo in virtù della loro situazione di essere persone in fugà."&gt;However, in essence, the new law contradicts that requirement, allowing asylum seekers and refugees are treated like criminals, just by virtue of their situation to be people on the run.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196628" id="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196661" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="I richiedenti asilo provenienti dall'Eritrea e dal Sudan, spesso costretti a fare il viaggio attraverso l'Egitto in Israele, anche se il viaggio è diventato più pericoloso i rapporti di attacchi nella penisola del Sinai sono in aumento."&gt;Asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan, are often forced to make the journey through Egypt to Israel, although the journey has become more dangerous reports of attacks in the Sinai Peninsula are on the rise.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196630" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Lo confermano le tante testimonianze di Persone che hanno subito violenze indicibili."&gt;This is confirmed by the many testimonies of people who have suffered unspeakable violence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196632" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="La nuova legge speriamo solo che abbia lo scopo di scoraggiare ulteriormente le persone che tentino di entrare in Israele."&gt;Let's just hope the new law is intended to further discourage people from attempting to enter Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196634" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Attualmente, i richiedenti asilo che vengono presi mentre attraversano la frontiera sono detenuti per alcune settimane prima di essere rilasciati."&gt;Currently, asylum seekers are taken as they cross the border are being held for several weeks before being released.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196636" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Fonti attendibili hanno anche riferito che Israele ha un centro di detenzione per immigrati previsto che sarà in grado di contenere 10.000 detenuti, diventando così il più grande impianto di tale livello globale."&gt;Reliable sources have also reported that Israel has a detention center for immigrants expected to be able to hold 10,000 prisoners, making it the largest such facility globally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196638" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Creare un Lager di questa entità nello stato di Israele, stride fortemente con la storia stessa del popolo ebraico."&gt;Create a camp of this magnitude in the state of Israel, clashes sharply with the history of the Jewish people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196640" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Israele spero che tratti le Persone richiedenti asilo ei profughi che sono senza documenti, in linea con i valori del rispetto dei diritti umani e civili dichiarati e suoi obblighi internazionali."&gt;People hope that Israel treats asylum seekers and refugees who are undocumented, in line with the values ​​of respect for human and civil rights, and declared its international obligations.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196642" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="Israele dovrebbe abbandonare il progetto di criminalizzazione dei profughi e la costruzione di strutture detentive per richiedenti asilo e immigrati, inviterei a spendere più risorse per la prevenzione e lotta contro il traffico di esseri umani e di organi, impegnarsi nella creazione delle condizioni favorevoli per una vita"&gt;Israel should abandon plans for criminalization of refugees and the construction of detention facilities for asylum seekers and immigrants, would ask you to spend more resources for the prevention of and fight against trafficking in human beings and organs involved in the creation of favorable conditions for life&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196644" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="dignitosa e liberi nei loro paesi di origine."&gt;dignity and freedom in their countries of origin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yui_3_2_0_15_1326534393196646" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px;" title="don Mussie Zerai"&gt;Fr. Mussie Zerai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Kassala, Sudan, January, 12, 2012. Eritrean refugees are being kidnapped and sometimes killed by human traffickers, the head of the UN's refugee agency said in Sudan on Thursday, calling for global action against the crimes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, spoke after a tour of the Shagarab refugee camp which receives about 2,000 asylum-seekers every month, largely from neighbouring Eritrea where many have fled military service.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;"Taking profit of the desperate situation of many Eritreans that are leaving the country we have now a network, a criminal network, of smugglers and traffickers," Guterres told reporters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;"People are kidnapped for ransom," and in Egypt's Sinai peninsula where some end up, they have been "killed for the traffic of organs", he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;To deal with the "extremely serious" problem, the UNHCR will work with Sudanese authorities and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), an intergovernmental body, to strengthen local police with additional vehicles, computers and other equipment, Guterres said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;"This is not only a problem of Sudan" because the gangs are global, he added, and countering their "very lucrative" activity requires combined action by different governments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;UNHCR is seeking $2 million from donors for its joint project with the IOM to research the trafficking and kidnapping issue, improve security in the refugee camps and develop local authorities' ability to deal with the problem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Young migrants are turning to illegal transportation by smugglers to reach the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the Middle East or Europe, where they hope to find greater opportunities, UNHCR said in a briefing paper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;But the agency said it received "numerous reports" last year of refugees and others being held for thousands of dollars in ransom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;"They're being taken through the country by criminal groups and subject to kidnapping. This is happening here in the east of Sudan regularly," said Felix Ross, the UNHCR's senior protection officer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;"Daily, human trafficking is happening here," one Eritrean refugee told AFP.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="yiv907971865yui_3_2_0_16_1326380298569112"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Centinaia di profughi Eritrei ancora oggi sono nelle mani dei predoni nel Sinai, oggi 12 gennaio 2012 alle ore 15.50 ho ricevuto una disperata richiesta di aiuto da una donna che si trova prigioniera dei trafficanti, insieme con lei ci sono altre 20 donne di cui 5 sono con figli quindi ci sono 6 bambini e 12 maschi adulti, gli uomini sono bendati e legati con catene mani e piedi, le donne in catene solo ai piedi. La donna che ha chiamato per chiedere aiuto, parla delle continue maltrattamenti, privazione di cibo, e violenze. Altri gruppi di ostaggi parlano di abusi&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="yiv907971865yui_3_2_0_16_1326380298569127"&gt;&lt;span id="yiv907971865yui_3_2_0_16_1326380298569133"&gt;sessuali su le donne, ma ci sono stati anche diversi casi di abusi sessuali anche su ragazzi maschi. Le diverse metodologie di torture&amp;nbsp;utilizzate,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="yiv907971865yui_3_2_0_16_1326380298569136" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;dalle scariche&amp;nbsp;elettriche a quelle bruciature con plastica fusa,&amp;nbsp;sigarette&amp;nbsp;o&amp;nbsp;ferro arroventato. Le&amp;nbsp;minacce dei trafficanti a chi non paga somme fino a 30.000 dollari restano quello della vendita degli organi che un mercato fiorente in quella regione come stato già dimostrato ampiamente anche da mezzi di comunicazione di massa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="yiv907971865yui_3_2_0_16_1326380298569143" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Da più di un anno che stiamo denunciando questi gravissimi crimini contro persone in fuga da situazione di pericolo, e alla ricerca di una Vita e Dignità !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="yiv907971865yui_3_2_0_16_1326380298569196" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;C'è un bisogno di una azione forte congiunta tra le due sponde del&amp;nbsp;Mediterraneo per la lotta contro il traffico di esseri umani e di organi. Spaventoso i numeri che negli anni scorsi, sono stati vittime del traffico di esseri umani, più di 100 mila nella sola zona di Sudan, Egitto, Libia, questa cifra, si parla solo di popolazioni provenienti dal Eritrea, Etiopia, Sudan e Somali. Sono migliaia di minori scomparsi una stima parla di 4000, e più di 3000 persone che sono sparite nel nulla, solo nella zona del Sinai, e centinaia di persone che sono morte uccise dai trafficanti, o pure delle guardie di frontiera.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;La Comunità Europa in collaborazione con Unità Africana, in particolare gli stati interessati da questo&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;fenomeno&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;, come Israele, Egitto, Sudan, Eritrea ed Etiopia può fare una forte azione di prevenzione, che altre migliaia di profughi disperati non finiscano nelle mani dei trafficanti di esseri umani o di organi. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span id="yiv907971865yui_3_2_0_16_1326380298569158" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Facciamo appello alla Comunità Internazionale, in particolare alla Comunità Europea, in primis al governo italiano, per un forte impegno a porre fine a questi atti di pura crudeltà, ai danni di persone vulnerabili, chiediamo anche interventi per la prevenzione, quindi chiedere una lotta preventiva contro il traffico di organi e di esseri umani, con una campagna informativa verso i profughi in Sudan e in Etiopia, una azione della polizia internazionale per distruggere la rete dei trafficanti di esseri umani e di organi e le sue&amp;nbsp;ramificazione&amp;nbsp;in buna parte del Nord Africa, Medio Oriente e l'Europa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="yiv907971865long_text" id="yiv907971865result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 19px; min-height: 93px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;" title="Centinaia di profughi Eritrei ancora oggi sono nelle mani dei predoni nel Sinai, oggi 12 gennaio 2012 alle ore 15.50 ho ricevuto una disperata richiesta di aiuto da una donna che si trova prigioniera dei trafficanti, insieme con lei ci sono altre 20 donne di cui 5 sono"&gt;Hundreds of Eritrean refugees are still in the hands of robbers in the Sinai, today, January 12th, 2012 at 15:50 I received a desperate call for help from a woman who is a prisoner of the traffickers, along with her are 20 women, 5 of which are&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;" title="con figli quindi ci sono 6 bambini e 12 maschi adulti, gli uomini sono bendati e legati con catene mani e piedi, le donne in catene solo ai piedi."&gt;with children so there are 6 children and 12 adult males, men are blindfolded and chained hands and feet, women in chains only to walk away.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;" title="La donna che ha chiamato per chiedere aiuto, parla delle continue maltrattamenti, privazione di cibo, e violenze."&gt;The woman who called for help, talks about the continuous mistreatment, starvation, and violence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;" title="Altri gruppi di ostaggi parlano di abusi sessuali su le donne, ma ci sono stati anche diversi casi di abusi sessuali anche su ragazzi maschi."&gt;Other groups of hostages speak of sexual abuse of women, but there were also several cases of sexual abuse of young boys also.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;" title="Le diverse metodologie di torture utilizzate, dalle scariche elettriche a quelle bruciature con plastica fusa, sigarette o ferro arroventato."&gt;The various methods of torture used by electric shock to those burning with molten plastic, cigarettes or red-hot iron.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;" title="Le minacce dei trafficanti a chi non paga somme fino a 30.000 dollari restano quello della vendita degli organi che un mercato fiorente in quella regione come stato già dimostrato ampiamente anche da mezzi di comunicazione di massa."&gt;The threat of smugglers who do not pay money up to $ 30,000 of the sale of organs remain a thriving market in that region as has already been amply demonstrated also by means of mass communication.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yiv907971865long_text" id="yiv907971865result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 19px; min-height: 93px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;"&gt;&lt;span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326382570709782" style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span title="Da più di un anno che stiamo denunciando questi gravissimi crimini contro persone in fuga da situazione di pericolo, e alla ricerca di una Vita e Dignità!"&gt;For more than a year that we are denouncing these very serious crimes against persons fleeing from danger, and looking for a Life and Dignity!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="C'è un bisogno di una azione forte congiunta tra le due sponde del Mediterraneo per la lotta contro il traffico di esseri umani e di organi."&gt;There is a need for a stronger joint action between the two shores of the Mediterranean to the fight against trafficking in human beings and organs.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Spaventoso i numeri che negli anni scorsi, sono stati vittime del traffico di esseri umani, più di 100 mila nella sola zona di Sudan, Egitto, Libia, questa cifra, si parla solo di popolazioni provenienti dal Eritrea, Etiopia, Sudan e Somali."&gt;Scary numbers than in previous years, have been victims of human trafficking, more than 100 000 in one area of ​​Sudan, Egypt, Libya, this figure refers only to people from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan and Somali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Sono migliaia di minori scomparsi
 una stima parla di 4000, e più di 3000 persone che sono sparite nel nulla, solo nella zona del Sinai, e centinaia di persone che sono morte uccise dai trafficanti, o pure delle guardie di frontiera."&gt;There are thousands of missing children an estimate of about 4000, and more than 3000 people have disappeared into thin air, only in the area of ​​Sinai, and hundreds of people who died were killed by traffickers, or even border guards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326382570709779" title="La Comunità Europa in collaborazione con Unità Africana, in particolare gli stati interessati da questo fenomeno, come Israele, Egitto, Sudan, Eritrea ed Etiopia può fare una forte azione di prevenzione, che altre migliaia di profughi disperati non finiscano nelle mani dei trafficanti di esseri"&gt;Europe in collaboration with the Community of African Unity, in particular were affected by this phenomenon, such as Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia can make a strong preventive action, thousands of desperate refugees who do not fall into the hands of traffickers&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="umani o di organi."&gt;or human organs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="Facciamo appello alla Comunità Internazionale, in particolare alla Comunità Europea, in primis al governo italiano, per un forte impegno a porre fine a questi atti di pura crudeltà, ai danni di persone vulnerabili, chiediamo anche interventi per la prevenzione, quindi chiedere una lotta preventiva"&gt;We appeal to the international community, particularly the EU, primarily to the Italian government, for a strong commitment to put an end to these acts of pure cruelty, against people who are vulnerable, we also work to prevent, fight and then ask for a preventive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title="contro il traffico di organi e di esseri umani, con una campagna informativa verso i profughi in Sudan e in Etiopia, una azione della polizia internazionale per distruggere la rete dei trafficanti di esseri umani e di
 organi e le sue ramificazione in buna parte del Nord Africa"&gt;against trafficking in organs and human beings, with an information campaign to refugees in Sudan and Ethiopia, an international police action to destroy the network of traffickers in human beings and organs and its running fine branching parts of North Africa&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span title=", Medio Oriente e l'Europa."&gt;, Middle East and Europe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yiv907971865long_text" id="yiv907971865result_box" lang="en" style="color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 19px; min-height: 93px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span title=", Medio Oriente e l'Europa."&gt;Fr. Mussie Zerai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Un ponte aereo nell'area dei conflitti
Il sostegno al giovane governo della neonata nazione per la reintegrazione di 660 mila profughirientrati in patria, di cui 360 mila dal Sudan e altri 300 mila dai paesi vicini. Andrà a Kassala, nell'est del paese, teatro di una delle situazioni di rifugiati di più lunga data al mondo: 70.000 rifugiati eritrei che risiedono in 12 campi
GINEVRA - Sarà il Sud Sudan il primo paese visitato dall'Alto Commissario delle Nazioni Unite per i Rifugiati (UNHCR 1)  António Guterres questo fine settimana. Oggi farà visita alla capitale Juba e domenica ad un insediamento di rifugiati a Mabaan. Guterres si recherà poi in Sudan, dove rimarrà dal 10 al 13 gennaio. In Sud Sudan l'Alto Commissariato sostiene il governo del paese - di recente indipendenza - nel processo di reintegrazione di circa 660.000 rifugiati rientrati in patria, di cui 360.000 dal Sudan e gli altri 300.000 soprattutto dai paesi limitrofi.
 
Il ponte aereo. I recenti combattimenti negli stati sudanesi di Kordofan Meridionale e Blue Nile hanno causato la fuga di 75.000 persone oltre frontiera - negli stati del Sud Sudan di Unity e Upper Nile - oltre che di 23.000 persone verso l'Etiopia. Per assistere i rifugiati in arrivo, l'UNHCR ha avviato un ponte aereo di aiuti umanitari su Malakal e Mabaan. Dal 20 dicembre, 16 voli hanno trasportato 1.450 tende per famiglie, 10.000 set da cucina, 18.000 coperte, 18.000 taniche per l'acqua, teli di plastica, materassi, zanzariere e altri beni di prima necessità. Il ponte aereo prosegue poiché è necessaria ulteriore assistenza.
 
I 70 mila eritrei in 12 campi profughi. Nel frattempo, nello stesso Sud Sudan, la recente insorgenza di combattimenti inter-etnici nello stato di Jonglei tra i gruppi Lou Nuer e Murle ha provocato ingenti esodi interni. Martedì prossimo Guterres volerà su Khartoum, la capitale del Sudan, da dove poi si sposterà verso Kassala - nell'est del paese - teatro di una delle situazioni di rifugiati di più lunga data al mondo. Sono infatti 70.000 i rifugiati di origine eritrea che risiedono in 12 campi e che - come la popolazione locale - devono affrontare estrema povertà, siccità e rischio carestia, mancanza di accesso a sanità e istruzione, degrado del territorio e alti livelli di disoccupazione. Oltre ai 70.000 rifugiati, ogni mese circa 1.700 richiedenti asilo entrano nel paese, in maggioranza dall'Eritrea.
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«S iete vecchi! Vecchi! Vecchi!». Il tormentone di Oliviero Toscani è ripreso nei dati Istat: l' età media degli italiani, che è già a 43,5 anni, è destinata a salire quasi a 50. E andrebbe ancora più su senza gli immigrati. Che in mezzo secolo dovrebbero triplicare. C' è chi si sentirà gelare il sangue. Ma mai come in questo caso i numeri vanno presi con le pinze. E possono aiutare a capire. Gli anziani con oltre 65 anni che sono un quinto (20,3%) della popolazione, dovrebbero nel 2043, cioè fra poco più di tre decenni (il tempo che ci separa, per dire, dal festival di Sanremo segnato dal «Wojtilaccio» di Benigni) passare il 32%. Uno su tre. Il numero dei bambini e dei ragazzi sotto i 14 anni dovrebbe scendere parallelamente nel 2037 al 12,4%: uno su otto. Mentre cresceranno i pensionati, caleranno gli italiani al lavoro per pagare quelle pensioni e accantonare le proprie: la popolazione in età lavorativa (15-64 anni) scenderà in tre lustri dal 65,7% al 62,8% per precipitare infine nel 2056 a un minimo del 54,3%. Non c' è Paese al mondo che possa reggere con numeri così. Impossibile. Men che meno un Paese industriale che tale voglia restare. Ed è in questo contesto che vanno letti i dati sull' immigrazione. Dice dunque l' Istituto di statistica che, sulla base delle tendenze attuali (da prendere con le molle perché la storia prende spesso pieghe inattese), gli arrivi dovrebbero proseguire incessanti con un aumento dei residenti con cognome estero dai 4,6 milioni di oggi a 14,1 milioni nel 2065. Per capirci: «L' incidenza della popolazione straniera passerà dall' attuale 7,5% a valori compresi tra il 22% e il 24% nel 2065». Ma qui, appunto, bisogna capirci. Partiamo dall' età media: spiega una tabella Istat che gli italiani sono mediamente, in realtà, ancora più vecchi (44,4 anni) e portano sul groppo 12 anni e mezzo in più rispetto agli stranieri, che stanno sotto i 32. Peggio ancora andrà in futuro se è vero che in quel 2065 preso a riferimento l' età media degli italiani arriverà a 51 anni e otto mesi. Contro i 43 scarsi dei nostri «ospiti». Insomma, piaccia o non piaccia saranno gli immigrati e i loro figli a pagare in modo determinante le nostre pensioni. Andassero via tutti, saremmo nei guai fino al collo. Bruno Anastasia, a capo dell' Osservatorio immigrazione di Veneto Lavoro, ha fatto due conti prendendo ad esempio la sua regione, una di quelle che tirano. La popolazione veneta aumenterà nei prossimi vent' anni di circa mezzo milione di abitanti grazie in gran parte ai nuovi arrivi: «È evidente che gli italiani rimarranno costanti solo grazie ai naturalizzati». Di più: se passeranno dal 10% di oggi al 18% fra vent' anni, gli immigrati «nelle classi di età centrali (trentenni-quarantenni) sfioreranno il 30%». Un terzo della forza lavoro. Nonostante il fatto che molti, appena possibile, torneranno a casa andando a coprire circa il 95% di quanti (5,9 milioni a livello nazionale) lasceranno l' Italia. C' è chi pensa sul serio che possiamo «prendere in affitto» milioni di persone tenendoli qui «appesi» per decenni? «Se io fossi uno xenofobo me lo chiederei», dice il demografo Massimo Livi Bacci: «Se il saldo positivo sarà davvero di 11 milioni di persone mi spaventerebbe meno avere 11 milioni di immigrati emarginati, senza casa, senza diritti, ignari della lingua, senza una famiglia che come in tutte le emigrazioni è quella che aiuta l' inserimento? Non credo proprio. L' inserimento non è solo un interesse loro: è anche interesse nostro». Giorgio Napolitano l' ha detto bene invitando le Camere ad affrontare il tema della cittadinanza ai bambini nati in Italia da immigrati: «Negarla è un' autentica follia, un' assurdità». Sia chiaro, in un' epoca in cui per il Cestim «il 16,6% degli abitanti del pianeta vive in una regione diversa da quella di nascita», passare dallo «ius sanguinis» (la cittadinanza dipende dai genitori) allo «ius soli» (chi nasce sul suolo di uno Stato è cittadino di quello Stato) impone massima cautela. Perfino gli studiosi più aperti invitano a procedere coi piedi di piombo. Come non ha senso che Leonardo DiCaprio, un americano che a dispetto del nome non sa quasi nulla dell' Italia, possa rivendicare il passaporto e votare un «suo» deputato, non ha senso che quel documento possa chiederlo il figlio di una turista nato casualmente a Capri. Del resto, spiegano Graziella Bertocchi e Chiara Strozzi nel saggio L' evoluzione delle leggi sulla cittadinanza: una prospettiva globale , proprio gli epocali esodi migratori hanno spinto nel dopoguerra molti Paesi a cambiare le loro leggi. Lo «ius soli» integrale applicato mezzo secolo fa dalla metà dei 162 Paesi studiati è integralmente conservato oggi solo da 36. Altri 31 (soprattutto colonie africane che si sono radicalizzate con l' indipendenza) sono passati allo «ius sanguinis». Ma in gran parte, sia che venissero dal primo (l' Irlanda) sia dal secondo sistema (la Germania), hanno finito per scegliere un mix. Che cerchi di tutelare insieme la maggior integrità possibile delle etnie nazionali e la maggiore integrazione possibile dei nuovi cittadini. Come può l' Italia non rivedere le leggi che hanno permesso a Mario Balotelli, nato a Palermo e cresciuto da genitori bresciani, di diventare italiano solo al compimento dei 18 anni? 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migliaia di profughi fuggiti dal Corno d'Africa o dall'Africa sub-sahariana risulterebbero ridotti in stato di schiavitù da bande di predoni beduini nel Sinai;
ad essere imprigionati sarebbero, soprattutto, giovani, donne e numerosi adolescenti e bambini, vittime di un traffico inumano, organizzato da criminali che si arricchiscono con la richiesta di riscatti di migliaia di euro o, peggio, con il mercato clandestino di organi, al quale vengono sacrificati quelli che non riescono a «pagarsi la libertà»;
si tratta di una delle maggiori emergenze umanitarie degli ultimi anni, che si sta consumando nella sostanziale indifferenza del mondo e nel silenzio assordante dell'Europa e dell'Italia, ovvero di quei Paesi verso i quali quei profughi disperati intendevano dirigersi, in nome dei più elementari diritti umani, fuggendo guerre, persecuzioni politiche o religiose, fame, carestia;
in genere, i profughi partono dai grandi campi di raccolta allestiti in Etiopia (che ospitano soprattutto eritrei) o nel Sudan (ancora eritrei, somali ed etiopi), dove sono arrivati dopo aver corso rischi pesantissimi e dove speravano che, riconosciuta a livello internazionale la loro condizione di rifugiati e perseguitati, potessero essere accolti in Europa entro un periodo di tempo ragionevole;
a causa della lentezza e dalla sostanziale chiusura di quasi tutti i Governi occidentali questi profughi, nel tentativo di giungere in Europa risalendo il Sudan e l'Egitto per puntare poi verso il confine israeliano nel Sinai (Tunisia e, soprattutto, Libia e il Mediterraneo non erano vie praticabili con le rivolte esplose dall'inizio del 2011), cadono nella rete di organizzazioni clandestine o singole guide che offrono il «passaggio» fino al confine israeliano per un compenso che va da mille a duemila euro, ma che spesso si rivelano emissari delle bande di predoni beduini che gestiscono il traffico di schiavi;
i pochi che riescono a sottrarsi a questa trappola spesso vengono uccisi a fucilate dalle guardie di frontiera del Cairo mentre tentano di entrare clandestinamente in Israele, o finiscono nelle carceri egiziane, dove i maltrattamenti e le percosse, la malnutrizione e la scarsità d'acqua, le terribili condizioni igieniche e logistiche provocano malattie e non di rado anche la morte, senza nessuna assistenza;
stessa sorte è toccata anche a molti giovani che avevano inizialmente raggiunto la Libia per essere o respinti in mare o espulsi al confine sud, in pieno Sahara, e da qui - non potendo rientrare nei Paesi d'origine dove rischiavano l'arresto o la morte - diretti verso il Sinai;
l'allarme è stato lanciato per la prima volta, nel novembre 2010, da Habeshia, l'agenzia che si occupa in Italia dei profughi eritrei, e da numerose altre organizzazioni umanitarie internazionali, ma da allora non è cambiato nulla, anzi la situazione è peggiorata;
un anno fa si parlava di circa 250 prigionieri, mentre l'ultimo rapporto del pool di organizzazioni, che, insieme ad Habeshia, segue costantemente il problema, parla di almeno 350-400 ostaggi, ma altre organizzazioni non governative internazionali ne stimano oltre mille;
è il caso di ricordare che su molti giornali sono comparsi anche i nomi di personaggi fortemente sospettati di essere ai vertici dell'organizzazione, con presunte complicità a vari livelli sia in Egitto che in Israele;
è una tragedia che non può lasciare indifferente l'Italia -:
se non ritenga opportuno adottare urgenti iniziative, anche presso le competenti sedi europee od internazionali, volte a:
a) coinvolgere l'Interpol per aprire un'inchiesta su questo traffico di esseri umani, con l'ausilio delle polizie egiziana ed israeliana ai massimi livelli e con la prospettiva di emettere mandati di cattura internazionali contro i trafficanti;
b) aprire un'inchiesta specifica per cercare di risalire alla catena che porta al traffico clandestino di organi, un mercato che richiede necessariamente una organizzazione ad alto livello, con la complicità di medici, specialisti e cliniche (l'Egitto, tra l'altro, è nell'elenco delle nazioni più sospette, per questo tipo di traffico, anche a prescindere dal caso del Sinai);
c) sensibilizzare il Governo egiziano affinché consenta l'accesso nelle sue carceri alle organizzazioni umanitarie internazionali che si occupano dei profughi, per verificare la loro condizione di richiedenti asilo politico o di rifugiati; 
d) invitare il Governo dei Paesi interessati, anche attraverso l'Unione europea, ad aprire le frontiere almeno ai profughi sfuggiti ai «predoni» e, contemporaneamente, rendere più celeri e meno fiscali le pratiche sull'emigrazione e la concessione dello status di rifugiati o di esuli politici ai profughi;
e) modificare in Italia la politica dell'accoglienza, sulla base del sistema in vigore in Svezia;
f) contribuire a realizzare progetti di sostegno nei Paesi di transito (Etiopia e Sudan) per frenare l'emigrazione disperata di migliaia di profughi.
(2-01294)
«Pezzotta, Galletti, Adornato, Enzo Carra, Volontè, Binetti».
(13 dicembre 2011)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/799940945196702649-1682601621545143129?l=habeshia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/feeds/1682601621545143129/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=799940945196702649&amp;postID=1682601621545143129' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default/1682601621545143129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default/1682601621545143129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/2011/12/interrogazione-parlamentare-presentata.html' title='Interrogazione Parlamentare presentata dal UDC'/><author><name>Agenzia Habeshia per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13879849684419607117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O2jGbXtp5yw/SQzKZi-LBDI/AAAAAAAAAHA/WMBq-okN_Vg/S220/Logo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799940945196702649.post-7691032414769221502</id><published>2011-12-23T10:11:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T10:11:30.968+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Interrogazione Parlamentare sul caso Sinai, On. Savino Pezzotta</title><content type='html'>SAVINO PEZZOTTA. Signor Presidente, sono veramente dispiaciuto di dover intervenire un'altra volta su questo tema, ma la situazione sta continuamente drammatizzandosi. Ho sperato, come tanti altri, che in questo anno la situazione potesse trovare una soluzione. Da molto tempo, ormai troppo, si sta consumando nella penisola del Sinai un dramma umano che inquieta, che turba, che crea profonda emotività e lo si sta consumando nella totale indifferenza dell'Europa e anche, devo purtroppo dire, del nostro Paese.
Migliaia di profughi fuggiti dal Corno d'Africa, in particolare dall'Eritrea e dalla Somalia, di cui conosciamo le situazioni politiche, economiche e anche di conflitto, sono stati ridotti allo stato di schiavitù o
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forse anche peggio della schiavitù. Sono stati ridotti a cose da poter scambiare, da poter vendere, da poter utilizzare, da una banda di predoni. Sono in larga maggioranza giovani, donne e bambini e sono vittime di un traffico inumano, organizzato da criminali che si arricchiscono da un lato con le richieste di riscatto verso le famiglie, verso gli amici, verso i conoscenti o, peggio, con un traffico clandestino di organi ai quali vengono obbligati e sottoposti quelli che non sono in grado di pagarsi la libertà.
Abbiamo racconti, telefonate veramente raccapriccianti e tremendi su quello che sta avvenendo in quell'area, anche se poi ci dicono che non riescono a localizzarli, ma basterebbe poco per localizzare dove sono, visto che si riesce ad avere contatti telefonici e la localizzazione di dove sono collocati credo che sia in una cosa anche abbastanza facile. Sono persone in fuga da situazioni di guerra, di persecuzioni, dalla dittatura e che speravano sicuramente di poter riconquistare, raggiungere una posizione nella quale farsi riconoscere nella loro condizione di profughi e di richiedenti asilo. In questo cammino verso la libertà, oserei dire verso la sopravvivenza, anche fisica, condotto in situazioni estreme, non sono riusciti ad arrivare ai luoghi che gli avrebbero consentito questa possibilità, cioè di pervenire a luoghi più sicuri, a luoghi dove avrebbero potuto farsi riconoscere il loro status di profughi, di rifugiati, e sono caduti nella rete di organizzazioni clandestine che, approfittando della loro situazione, ne hanno veramente utilizzata la condizione di estrema difficoltà, magari offrendogli un passaggio fino al confine israeliano, ma molte volte sono caduti nelle mani di predoni che gestiscono il traffico di persone. I pochi che sono riusciti a sottrarsi a questa cattura sono molte volte stati vittime delle guardie di frontiera che impediscono il loro espatrio, qui necessariamente clandestino, in Israele. Molti finiscono nelle carceri egiziane, dove sicuramente la loro situazione di trattamento, la loro situazione umana è diventata sempre più drammatica.
Molti giovani sono riusciti ad arrivare in Libia. Sono stati respinti, respinti quando hanno tentato, in mare, di uscirne, respinti verso il Sahara e dal Sahara verso il Sinai e, pertanto, diventati oggetto di cattura. Nel 2010 l'agenzia Habeshia, che in Italia si occupa dei profughi eritrei, e altre organizzazioni umanitarie, avevano lanciato un grido d'allarme, avevano segnalato questa situazione. Un anno fa si poteva parlare di 250 persone, oggi si comincia a parlare di migliaia.
Noi vorremmo che su questo vi fosse un'attenzione e una riflessione. Con questa interpellanza urgente chiediamo un'attenzione, pertanto, al nostro Governo, pur sapendo qual è la situazione politica di quei territori e di quegli ambiti, sicuramente molto più difficile oggi di quella che non era un po' di tempo fa. Noi chiediamo un'attenzione a questo problema e di ammettere e di definire delle iniziative presso le competenti sedi, europee ed internazionali. Chiediamo che il nostro Governo si attivi per coinvolgere l'Interpol, perché apra un'inchiesta su questo traffico di esseri umani, coinvolgendo la polizia egiziana e israeliana, con l'obiettivo di emettere mandati di cattura internazionali. Tanto, più o meno, si conoscono coloro che dirigono questo traffico. Chiediamo che si apra un'inchiesta specifica per risalire la catena che porta al traffico clandestino di organi, un traffico che sappiamo dove va a finire. Vi sono cliniche, medici e persone che si prestano, per motivi di denaro, a utilizzare il corpo e parti del corpo di persone per arricchirsi.
Bisogna sensibilizzare il Governo egiziano perché consenta l'accesso alle carceri alle organizzazioni umanitarie internazionali, per verificare se vi sono dei profughi, dei richiedenti asilo e per vedere, allora, di immetterli in questo status, in questa condizione di protezione internazionale. Inoltre, chiediamo che il nostro Governo intervenga presso l'Unione europea, in modo che si possa agire perché si aprano le frontiere per coloro che rischiano di cadere nelle mani dei predoni. Anche in questo caso, alla fine deve essere
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riconosciuto, a quelli che ne hanno il diritto, lo status di rifugiati, di esuli politici e di profughi.
Inoltre, credo che sia arrivato il tempo di modificare, in Italia, quella che è la politica dell'accoglienza. Noi prendiamo come esempio quanto avviene in Svezia, ma il tema della politica di accoglienza è un tema che va affrontato, soprattutto per quanto riguarda i rifugiati, per quanto riguarda i profughi. Ricordo che nella nostra Costituzione vi è un capitolo preciso sul diritto d'asilo. Tuttavia, devo anche ricordare che il nostro è uno dei pochi Paesi europei che non ha ancora una legge organica sul diritto d'asilo. Credo che il nostro Governo dovrebbe contribuire a realizzare progetti di sostegno nei Paesi di transito, in modo da consentire una via d'uscita a queste persone che per necessità devono andare via. Queste persone sono molto diverse da coloro che fuggono magari per altre esigenze, perché qui vi è la necessità della vita e della libertà.
Ciò affinché il transito sia tranquillo, sia assistito e affinché queste persone, alla fine, possano arrivare ad essere riconosciute nel loro status internazionale di profughi o di richiedenti asilo. Credo che dobbiamo fare in fretta perché ogni giorno che passa è un dramma in più. Pensiamo che il nostro Governo dovrebbe - per la nostra storia e la nostra tradizione, per quello spirito umanitario che anima il nostro essere, ma anche soltanto perché ogni persona che viene trattata in tal modo è un'offesa anche al nostro modo di pensare alla democrazia e alla libertà -, nel limite delle possibilità attuali, agire in fretta perché questa situazione trovi una sua soluzione.

PRESIDENTE. Il sottosegretario di Stato per gli affari esteri, Staffan de Mistura, ha facoltà di rispondere.

STAFFAN DE MISTURA, Sottosegretario di Stato per gli affari esteri. Signor Presidente, onorevole Pezzotta, prima di tutto la ringrazio per aver sollevato questa questione. Prima di tutto, a nome del Governo, posso dire che la questione dei profughi e dei rifugiati del Corno d'Africa è nota e guardata con molta attenzione e - se mi permette - personalmente, basandomi sulla mia storia personale, la sento profondamente. Quindi, le sono grato di sollevare e di risollevare questo argomento.
Leggerò con attenzione, sono quindici punti, articolati in maniera tale da essere, per quanto possibile, precisi su quella che è una situazione complessa e complicata.
Il primo punto è che grazie anche - e francamente molto - alla sua interpellanza noi ci siamo molto attivati, sia nell'ambasciata de Il Cairo, che altrove con le autorità locali, in particolare egiziane, e le organizzazioni internazionali, su questo argomento. Tutto questo però - per avere una massa critica - è stato e viene fatto in stretto coordinamento con la delegazione dell'Unione europea: è inevitabile, perché così abbiamo maggiore capacità di pressione.
Da parte egiziana va detto - e dobbiamo confermarlo, perché l'abbiamo visto ogni volta che c'è stato un intervento - che c'è collaborazione, c'è attiva collaborazione. È stato confermato quello che lei dice, ossia una presenza di eritrei in Alto Egitto e, in più, essi hanno un contatto - molti almeno, ma non tutti, ma quelli a cui lei si riferisce credo che siano proprio quelli - con l'Alto Commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i rifugiati (UNHCR) e, proprio alcuni di loro, dall'Alto Egitto, sono stati trasportati su base volontaria, da quanto ci risulta, in Etiopia. In più, basandosi sui contatti con le organizzazioni internazionali competenti, in particolare, di nuovo, con l'UNHCR, L'OIM, l'Organizzazione internazionale per le migrazioni, e le ONG più direttamente interessate, è stato notato - e, devo dire, con apprezzamento - che le autorità egiziane hanno consentito a loro di visitare i centri di accoglienza di Luxor e Assuan, gestiti dal Governo egiziano. Abbiamo anche notato, tramite i nostri contatti, che le autorità egiziane, alle quali viene ricordata l'importanza che questo problema ha ai nostri occhi, ma anche ai loro occhi,
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hanno intensificato, per quello che possiamo notare, l'impegno nel contrasto ai traffici di esseri umani.
Ora arriviamo al Sinai, ossia alla questione che lei solleva in particolare. Immagino che lei sia stato nel Sinai, bene, vedo che c'è stato. Io ci sono stato varie volte: è un territorio vastissimo, complesso, che proprio in una fase molto fragile, come quella che esiste adesso, non solo in Egitto, ma in tutta quella che chiameremo la «primavera avanzata araba», non è facile da controllare. Rimane quindi una zona difficile da controllare e, in particolare, in una certa zona dell'Egitto la sicurezza è inoltre peggiorata in questa fase politicamente di transizione. Questo non vuol dire che non possono usare i telefoni, ma arrivare a raggiungere quelle zone dove questi personaggi, in particolare organizzazioni criminali, operano, è difficile. Abbiamo la conferma - anche tramite alcune inchieste condotte dalla nostra Polizia di Stato insieme a quella egiziana - del coinvolgimento di gruppi criminali organizzati, e - lei ha ragione - del fatto che le tribù beduine vengono in qualche maniera collegate o utilizzate per questo.
Ora, il fatto non è solo egiziano, possiamo dire che non è circoscritto solo all'Egitto, ma anche ad altre zone, come la Libia e la Tunisia, dove, per motivi di transizione politica interna, è difficile da parte delle autorità locali poter focalizzarsi su quelli che, invece, sono problemi che riteniamo importanti ed urgenti, ma rispetto ai quali abbiamo notato, anche da parte loro, sensibilità e attenzione. Quindi, non vi è una risposta negativa, anzi. I rapporti da parte israeliana - lei ha fatto riferimento a questo - restano molto efficaci, anche perché la situazione, il controllo e l'accoglienza alla frontiera sono per loro tecnicamente più facili e il risultato è molto efficace. Per quello che riguarda l'azione in favore dei profughi del Corno d'Africa in Sinai, continueremo, anche grazie al fatto che lei ci sta stimolando - abbiamo bisogno di questi stimoli, onorevole, perché il mondo è grande, e quindi, a volte, ci si dimentica quanto urgenti siano delle situazioni che toccano anche i nostri principi umanitari -, a sensibilizzare direttamente il Cairo, il quale sta reagendo con grande collaborazione, devo dire e ripeto.
Intendiamo anche stimolare lo sviluppo della collaborazione tra l'Unione europea e l'Egitto proprio nel settore migratorio. Ora, nel contesto europeo potremmo vedere opportunamente valutate delle iniziative in materia di sistema generale di accoglienza, che è un argomento che va ben oltre rispetto a quello sul quale riferiamo. Sulla questione del traffico di organi, è orribile soltanto pensare che questo possa avvenire, come forse - lei mi pare avere informazioni chiare - sta avvenendo. Al riguardo, le autorità egiziane stanno dimostrando una particolare disponibilità, e non soltanto al dialogo. Le do un esempio: mentre stiamo parlando, in questo momento, il 22 dicembre, al Cairo, proprio adesso, vi è un convegno organizzato dall'Organizzazione mondiale delle migrazioni, la IOM, proprio sull'argomento delle migrazioni, ma, soprattutto, sulla sensibilizzazione delle autorità locali verso le tematiche che lei ha sollevato.
Per guardare, invece, lontano, cioè alle origini, l'Italia contribuisce, nonostante la nostra situazione, che, come lei ben sa, è molto attenta ai costi, in questo periodo, ad alleviare le sofferenze dei profughi anche nei Paesi di transito, cioè Etiopia e Sudan. Nel Sudan orientale la cooperazione italiana realizza interventi a sostegno del sistema sanitario locale, sia direttamente sia tramite Agenzie dell'ONU, in special modo l'UNICEF, in particolare con 500 mila euro, che sono stati dati anche in favore dell'UNHCR. In più, 44 mila rifugiati somali sono stati, come lei sa, accolti dai campi delle Nazioni Unite presenti nel Paese (in particolare, quello di Dolo Ado). Comunque, grazie di nuovo. Abbiamo bisogno di questi stimoli e nel 2012 intendiamo continuare questo lavoro di sensibilizzazione, ma anche di attivismo, perché i punti che lei ha sottolineato sono validi.

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PRESIDENTE. Saluto gli studenti e i docenti dell'Istituto Comprensivo Statale «Alessandro Manzoni» di Castellanza, in provincia di Varese, che stanno assistendo ai nostri lavori dalle tribune (Applausi).
L'onorevole Pezzotta ha facoltà di replicare.

SAVINO PEZZOTTA. Signor Presidente, ringrazio il sottosegretario. Voglio solo fare osservare alcune cose: comprendo pienamente la complessità di agire in quell'area dopo la «primavera» e quello che si sta determinando è anche, probabilmente, una sorta di debolezza transitoria di potere che si può determinare e che rende molto più difficile di un tempo l'intervento. Credo che alcune risposte mi possano soddisfare. Mi rimane solo il dubbio - lo dico, anche qui, in modo molto pacato e certamente non polemico - di quanto tempo queste persone che sono prigioniere nel Sinai rimangano lì.
Infatti, se non diamo un termine entro il quale evacuarle, portarle via, la questione degli organi continuerà ad esistere. Anche per le forze sul confine israeliano succede qualcosa, perché non penso che l'espiantazione di organi possa avvenire nel deserto. Per cui, bisogna sensibilizzare lo stesso Governo israeliano su quello che succede sulla sua frontiera.
Sono d'accordo sulla conferenza che si sta svolgendo in questi giorni a Il Cairo, però sappiamo quanto le organizzazioni internazionali abbiano dubbi su ciò che avviene in Egitto rispetto alla questione dell'espiantazione degli organi. Pertanto, credo vi sia bisogno di una maggiore pressione da parte del nostro Governo.
Accolgo con molto interesse quanto lei ha detto rispetto al coinvolgimento dell'Unione europea, ma rimane, a mio avviso, ancora aperta la questione di quando liberare queste persone. La polizia egiziana non può fare finta di non sapere dove sono, perché lo sappiamo noi. Telefoniamo, parliamo con i prigionieri e, se noi che siamo in Italia sappiamo dove si trovano, credo che una polizia minimamente dotata - non mi sembra che la polizia egiziana non lo sia - sia in grado di arrivare dove queste persone sono prigioniere e rinchiuse. Lo abbiamo fatto presente anche ai diplomatici egiziani, ma non sempre otteniamo delle risposte forti.
Pur accogliendo con attenzione quanto lei ha detto, insisterei perché vi sia un'azione molto più pressante affinché queste persone siano liberate.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/799940945196702649-7691032414769221502?l=habeshia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/feeds/7691032414769221502/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=799940945196702649&amp;postID=7691032414769221502' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default/7691032414769221502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default/7691032414769221502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/2011/12/interrogazione-parlamentare-sul-caso.html' title='Interrogazione Parlamentare sul caso Sinai, On. Savino Pezzotta'/><author><name>Agenzia Habeshia per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13879849684419607117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O2jGbXtp5yw/SQzKZi-LBDI/AAAAAAAAAHA/WMBq-okN_Vg/S220/Logo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799940945196702649.post-6805571883174832095</id><published>2011-12-19T11:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-19T11:58:50.549+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Boats 4 People action video in the Netherlands / Vidéo de l'action Boats 4 People aux Pays Bas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;
&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;EN :&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boats4people.org/index.php/en/" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1324286717209113" style="background-color: white; color: #234786; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.boats4people.org/index.php/en/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;FR:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boats4people.org/index.php/fr/" style="background-color: white; color: #234786; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.boats4people.org/index.php/fr/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;IT:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boats4people.org/index.php/it/" style="background-color: white; color: #234786; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.boats4people.org/index.php/it/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Here's a 3 min. film of the Dutch Boats 4 People action. The police was&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;blocking the harbour where the detention boats are located, but .... And&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;three of the seven boats got a fine of 420 euro's each. The benefit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;after was a big success with very good spirit and lots of intentions for&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;boats4people on the Mediteranean!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Voici le film de l'action Boats 4 People à Amsterdam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;La police&amp;nbsp; bloquait le port où les bateaux-prisons pour étrangers sont localisés,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;mais... trois des sept bateaux ont recu une amende de 420 euro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;chacun. le concert qui a suivi a été un grand succès avec beaucoup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;d'intentions pour les actions de Boats 4 People en Méditerranée!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Facebook : Boats4People&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Twitter: Boats4People&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;
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congratulations to the &lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;Russian Federation&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;,
&lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;Montenegro&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, Samoa and &lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region w:st="on"&gt;Vanuatu&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;The eighth Ministerial Conference of the WTO
takes place at unprecedented times for the world economy. The recovery from the
financial crisis of 2008 lasted only few months and there are already clear
signs of a slowing down of economic activity in advanced and emerging
economies. If these signs are confirmed, the world risks to plunge in a double
dip recession which could entail prolonged periods of stagnation and high
unemployment.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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in &lt;st1:place w:st="on"&gt;Europe&lt;/st1:place&gt; is reason for particular concern.
The debt crisis is forcing several European countries to implement tough fiscal
policies, with the risk of worsening the economic cycle. In these cases the
weakest are penalised the most, in particular young adults, who experience an
unemployment rate at the highest level in decades, and the poor confronted with
a strong increase in inequality in all countries.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;4.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;Evidence from the recent financial crisis has
shown us that trade has been an effective tool in helping a rapid recovery. Now
the primary challenge WTO faces is to sustain this approach and discourage
countries to give in to the temptation of protectionism that promises to
deliver some illusory short-run benefits while preventing more conspicuous long-term
gains.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;5.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;An additional burden could be imposed on the
shoulders of the young and of the poor if they are deprived of &amp;nbsp;such an effective tool for improving the
economy as an open trade.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;6.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;In this context, the Delegation of the Holy See would
like to recall the ethical foundation of trade. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;Ethics is not an external element of the
economy and the economy does not have a future if it does not take into account
the ethical dimension. The economy functions not only through self-regulation
of the market and much less through agreements limited to reconciling the
interests of the most powerful countries, but it needs also to take into
account that it functions at the service of man. The production of resources
and goods and their strategic management require a sense of ethics and of the common
good &amp;nbsp;since without them the economy becomes&amp;nbsp; naïve, cynical &amp;nbsp;and destined to failure. In fact, every
economic decision has a moral consequence. The economy needs an ethical
perspective centered on the person and able to offer sure points of reference to
new generations. Economic and commercial activities oriented to development
should be able to reduce poverty effectively and to alleviate the suffering of
the most unprotected. On several occasions the Holy See has called attention to
the urgency of a new and profound reflection on the meaning and objectives of
the economy and of a far-sighted revision of the global financial and
commercial architecture in order to correct problems of functioning and
distortions. This revision of international economic rules must be integrated
in the framework of a new global model of development. In reality, it is required
by the planet's ecological state of health, and, above all, by the cultural and
moral crisis of man, and the symptoms have been evident everywhere for a long
time. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;As Pope Benedict XVI states: “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;taking care of the needy means not just giving bread to the
hungry, but also letting yourself ponder the causes why the other person
is&amp;nbsp;hungry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;nly with
the acceptance of&amp;nbsp; effective rules that
protect the management of the economy in an ever more interdependent world, our
efforts will be directed toward the pursuit of the common good&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;7.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;Despite the seriousness of the general economic
condition and despite the strong need for improving trade, we observe that
trade negotiations are at an impasse. This stalemate has lasted for several
years and there is no sign that the current round of negotiations will be
concluded in the near future. There is a concrete risk that the entire Doha
Development Round may end in failure jeopardising all the efforts devoted to
the promotion of development through trade.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;8.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;However, looking at the work conducted during the
last years, as the "Easter package" clearly shows. significant
progress has been made in several areas, and an agreement can be within reach.
In other critical areas such as agriculture, positions are distant and a
solution does not seem to be close.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;9.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;During the current year serious attempts have
been conducted in order to reach an agreement on a smaller set of issues - the
so called LDC plus package - &amp;nbsp;in order to
take a step forward toward the implementation of the Doha Development Agenda. Despite
the failure of this new attempt, the Delegation of the Holy See supports the adoption
of a pragmatic approach and the consolidation of the progress made so far. This
option ensures that countries will reap the trade liberalisation benefits that,
in some areas, remain significant. If the opportunity is missed, the poor will
end up paying the highest cost.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;10.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;The success of the Aid-for-Trade
initiative gives evidence of the potential benefits deriving from trade and, on
the other hand, of the cost of inaction. In fact, lack of decision seems to
turn into an effective tool through which several countries are pursuing
protectionist policies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;11.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Another positive achievement is given by the
group of countries whose accession has so significantly advance that they are
at the threshold of completion. The creation of an "Accessions Commitments
Database" (ACDB) allows Members, acceding&amp;nbsp;governments and the
Secretariat, to rapidly and efficiently retrieve information on
"commitment language", for all completed accessions under Article XII
of the Marrakesh Agreement. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"&gt;Ensuring tr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;ansparency
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"&gt;and predictability in the accession process remains a key
priority for the Membership and the Secretariat. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;In this sense my
Delegation, appreciating all the efforts made by the Director General and the
Secretariat,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"&gt; underlines the need for enhanced technical assistance
and capacity building to help LDCs to complete their accession process,
implement their commitments and become integrated into the multilateral trading
system.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;12.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;One area where progress will deliver significant
and tangible benefits to poor and developing countries is that of the Rules of
Origin (ROO). Negotiations to harmonise non preferential rules of origin were
launched sixteen year ago, but an agreement has not been reached so far. A solution
to this problem will determine a significant step towards a more stable clear
and predictable set of rules for trade talks. Transparency and predictability
are particularly valuable for developing countries which are much penalised by
the complexity of the current set of rules.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;13.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;Preferential Rules of Origin
(ROO) should be amended in favour of poor countries. Often for these economies,
the potential benefits deriving from the margin of preferences are not captured
because of the presence of strict ROO. In practice ROO go against the
realisation of comparative advantages since poor countries tend to specialise
in very simple activities characterised by low added value. If advanced
economies wish to use trade as an effective tool to lift countries out of
poverty they need to recognise that giving poorer countries a margin of
preference is not enough without rules of origin that allow these economies to
really exploit the preferences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"&gt;
&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;14.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;Mr. Chairman,
after years of standstill, the Ministerial Conference provides an opportunity
to start taking tangible steps toward the implementation of the Doha Development
Agenda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"&gt; WTO members must "think big" in order to
conclude a broad deal, otherwise the risk of the marginalisation of the
multilateral trading system will become real. A positive conclusion of the Round
will represent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;a win-win
situation: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;a chance for
developed countries to strengthen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yiv985080663apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;the
confidence in the multilateral trading system,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yiv985080663apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;guard
against the rise of protectionism, and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yiv985080663apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="yiv985080663apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;to boost
the global economy while reducing its asymmetries; a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt; chance for newly emerging economies
to lock in those benefits permanently while avoiding new trade arrangements
that may well exclude them; &amp;nbsp;last but not
least, a chance for the poorest developing countries to realize the gains of
the Doha Development Agenda promised long ago.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;15.&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mr. Chairman,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;To sum up, the human family has not
been created to serve the market, but the market, to serve the human family. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;If this principle is respected, even
though times are difficult, fear will give way to hope.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: IT;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/799940945196702649-63377597967049943?l=habeshia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/feeds/63377597967049943/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=799940945196702649&amp;postID=63377597967049943' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default/63377597967049943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default/63377597967049943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/2011/12/ministerial-conference-of-world-trade.html' title='Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization'/><author><name>Agenzia Habeshia per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13879849684419607117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O2jGbXtp5yw/SQzKZi-LBDI/AAAAAAAAAHA/WMBq-okN_Vg/S220/Logo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799940945196702649.post-1807845256403194067</id><published>2011-12-17T10:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-17T10:18:22.276+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Eritrea - Escape To Freedom - By GZ - Part 1, 2, 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;amp;v=0KDQoRjc6p8"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;amp;v=0KDQoRjc6p8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;amp;v=6vBj1Al1-IU"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;amp;v=6vBj1Al1-IU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/799940945196702649-1807845256403194067?l=habeshia.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/feeds/1807845256403194067/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=799940945196702649&amp;postID=1807845256403194067' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default/1807845256403194067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/799940945196702649/posts/default/1807845256403194067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://habeshia.blogspot.com/2011/12/eritrea-escape-to-freedom-by-gz-part-1.html' title='Eritrea - Escape To Freedom - By GZ - Part 1, 2, 3'/><author><name>Agenzia Habeshia per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13879849684419607117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O2jGbXtp5yw/SQzKZi-LBDI/AAAAAAAAAHA/WMBq-okN_Vg/S220/Logo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-799940945196702649.post-1557535232793387455</id><published>2011-12-16T18:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T18:09:13.791+01:00</updated><title type='text'>GIORNATA INTERNAZIONALE DEI MIGRANTI</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0pt;"&gt;GIORNATA INTERNAZIONALE DEI MIGRANTI&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0pt;"&gt;18 dicembre 2011&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16.0pt;"&gt;COMUNICATO&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;La &lt;b&gt;Rete
Internazionale Scalabrini per le Migrazioni&lt;/b&gt; che rappresenta le
Organizzazioni e le Missioni della Congregazione dei Missionari Scalabriniani
per i migranti in 33 nazioni, si unisce alle organizzazioni della Società
Civile, agli organismi internazionali, alla Comunità Internazionale e a tutte
le Comunità migranti nella celebrazione della XI Giornata Internazionale dei
Migranti promossa dalle Nazioni Unite.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;La Congregazione ha aumentato il suo impegno
particolarmente nelle tematiche riguardanti la Migrazione e la Cultura, la
Migrazione e il Lavoro, la Migrazione e la Religione, la Migrazione e la
Famiglia, la Migrazione e l’Etica e la Migrazione e la Pace. Questo impegno
crescente si realizza attraverso una pluralità di strutture ed azioni concrete:
l’accompagnamento nell’integrazione attraverso delle comunità religiose
interculturali, la ricerca e le pubblicazioni dei centri di studio, l’utilizzo
dei media per una visione positiva dei migranti, le presenze in frontiere, in
metropoli e in porti marittimi, le case per i migranti, sfollati e rifugiati e
i centri di consulenza giuridico-sociale, l’animazione della pastorale
migratoria della Chiesa. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Le Congregazioni missionarie e le Organizzazioni
laicali cattoliche sono chiamiate a continuare la loro cooperazione e il loro
impegno nei Forum internazionali, regionali e nazionali affinché i valori del
Vangelo, la Dignità della persona, la Trascendenza, la Solidarietà e la
Fraternità siano lievito efficace per l’Unita della Famiglia Umana.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;In questa Giornata Internazionale dei Migranti, noi,
in comunione con le diversificate azioni pubbliche della Società Civile,
vogliamo:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;salutare la OIM per i suoi 60 anni a servizio di una
migrazione internazionale ben gestita, regolata, legale, efficace e protetta e
per la collaborazione con la Congregazione Scalabriniana nella promozione della
dignità e i diritti dei migranti in diversi paesi. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Unirci
all´impegno della Santa Sede, diventata membro della OIM, nella promozione e
protezione dei diritti dei migranti e delle loro famiglie.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Proseguire
con la partecipazione agli spazi di dibattito sulla gestione delle migrazioni
internazionali, come il Forum Globale sulle Migrazioni e Sviluppo e altre
iniziative regionali, oltre a continuare a promuovere il Forum Internazionale
su Migrazioni e Pace.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Unirci ai
33 vescovi degli USA, di origine ispana, che in un’incoraggiante Lettera del 12
dicembre riaffermano la loro solidarietà verso tutti i migranti, l’impegno a
livello dell’unita’ della famiglia e della dignità del lavoro e chiedono una “riforma
migratoria” giusta, umana e efficace che rafforzi il bene comune dell’Unione americana.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Denunciare
l’aumento del razzismo, della discriminazione e della xenofobia nell’Europa in
grave crisi economica e di valori. Un aumento motivato da ideologie senza
umanesimo e senza Dio, da pratiche politiche securitarie e economiste, dai
media e da un’opinione pubblica stigmatizzante verso lo straniero mettendo in
pericolo la vita di tutti i cittadini, specialmente i migranti, come avvenuto
recentemente in Italia.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;!--[if !supportLists]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"&gt;-&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Impegnarci
nel continuare assieme ai migranti e alle loro associazioni, alle
organizzazioni sociali e al mondo accademico, ai media e agli organismi di
Governo a livello nazionale ed internazionale, attraverso le nostre specifiche presenze
missionarie – missioni, centri ed organizzazioni - a diffondere una cultura
dell’accoglienza, della solidarietà, dell’incontro delle culture, del dialogo
tra le religioni, della trascendenza di vita e della pace.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span lang="IT" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Roma, 16 dicembre 2011&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="IT" style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 14.0pt;"&gt;Scalabrini International Migration Network&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Eritrei, l'appello del Papa."&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Eritreans, the appeal of the Pope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="05/12/2010 Domenica all'Angelus, Benedetto XVI ha levato la sua voce a favore dei profughi provenienti dall'Eritrea e dei loro compagni di sventura, ancora prigionieri di spietati trafficanti di uomini (così come ha invocato attenzione per i cristiani ei musulmani"&gt;05/12/2010 Sunday Angelus, Benedict XVI has raised its voice in favor of refugees from Eritrea and their companions in misfortune, still prisoners of ruthless smugglers (as he called attention to the Christians and Muslims&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="iracheni e per i fedeli copti egiziani)."&gt;Iraqi and Egyptian Copts for the faithful).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="L'appello e la preghiera del Papa vengono a rompere con il fragore della parola più autorevole la cortina di silenzio che ha avvolto finora la vicenda dei migranti respinti, arrestati e ricattati."&gt;The call and the prayer of the Pope are to break with the roar of the most authoritative word the curtain of silence that has enveloped so far rejected the story of migrants, arrested and blackmailed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Il Santo Padre, affacciandosi davanti ai fedeli raccolti in piazza San Pietro e parlando a tutti coloro che lo seguivano via radio, tv e Internet, «in questo tempo di Avvento, in cui siamo chiamati ad alimentare la nostra attesa del Signore e ad accoglierlo in"&gt;The Holy Father, appearing before the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square and talking to all those who followed him by radio, television and the Internet, "in this time of Advent, when we are called to feed our expectation of the Lord and to welcome in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="mezzo a noi», ha invitato «a pregare per tutte le situazioni di violenza, di intolleranza, di sofferenza che ci sono nel mondo, affinché la venuta di Gesù porti consolazione, riconciliazione e pace»."&gt;among us, "invited" to pray for all situations of violence, of intolerance, of suffering that we are in the world, that the coming of Jesus brings consolation, reconciliation and peace. "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Benedetto XVI ha poi elencato i gruppi che attualmente più sono colpiti."&gt;Benedict XVI then listed the groups that are most affected.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="«Penso alle tante situazioni difficili, come i continui attentati che si verificano in Iraq contro cristiani e musulmani, agli scontri in Egitto in cui vi sono stati morti e feriti, alle vittime di trafficanti e di criminali, come il dramma degli ostaggi eritrei e di"&gt;"I think the many difficult situations, such as the continuous attacks that occur in Iraq against Christians and Muslims, the clashes in Egypt where there were dead and wounded, the victims of traffickers and criminals, as the hostage drama of Eritreans and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="altre nazionalità, nel deserto del Sinai»."&gt;other nationalities in the desert of Sinai. "&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="«Il rispetto dei diritti di tutti – ha sottolineato il Pontefice – è il presupposto per la civile convivenza."&gt;"Respect for the rights of all - said the Pope - is a precondition for peaceful coexistence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="La nostra preghiera al Signore e la nostra solidarietà possano portare speranza a coloro che si trovano nella sofferenza», ha quindi concluso papa Ratzinger."&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Our prayer to the Lord and our solidarity can bring hope to those who are suffering, "Pope Ratzinger has concluded.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Anche questo Natale, per più di 350 profughi sequestrarti che sono nelle mani dei trafficanti, sarà un Natale carico di sofferenza, tra questi ostaggi ci sono 8 donne, di cui una all'ottavo mese di gravidanza, che &amp;quot;natale&amp;quot; sarà per questo/"&gt;Even this Christmas, more than 350 refugees who are seized in the hands of traffickers, Christmas will be a burden of suffering, among them there are 8 women hostages, one of which is eight months pregnant, that "home" for this will be /&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="a creatura che sta per nascere."&gt;a creature that is about to be born.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="In questi mesi sono stati fatti molti appelli, denunce, interpellanza parlamentari a tutti livelli, ma il commercio di esseri umani e di organi continua a fiorire nella regione del Sinai."&gt;In recent months there have been many appeals, complaints, parliamentary interpellation at all levels, but the trade in human organs and continues to flourish in the region of Sinai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="E spaventoso leggere le statistiche sommarie che vengono fatte su questo traffico di esseri umani e di organi nella sola regione del Sinai, si parla di quasi 50 mila profughi che hanno varcato il confine Israel-Egitto, tutti hanno pagato qualcosa per arrivarci."&gt;And scary to read the summary statistics that are made of this traffic in human beings and organs in the Sinai region alone, there is talk of almost 50 000 refugees who have crossed into Israel and Egypt, all have to get paid something.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Più di 10 mila sono stati vittime dei predoni che hanno preteso risicato, circa 3 mila persone sono scomparse nel nulla, abbiamo un serio sospetto che siano stati vittime del traffico di organi."&gt;More than 10 000 have been victims of robbers who demanded a tight, about 3 000 people have disappeared into thin air, we have a serious suspicion that they have been victims of organ trafficking.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Si parla di circa 4 mila minori scoparsi dai campi profughi in Sudan, per la maggioranza eritrei."&gt;There is talk of about 4 000 children from refugee camps in Sudan fuck, for the majority of Eritreans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Centinaia di profughi dal 2005 ad oggi sono morti sotto i colpi di arma delle guardie egiziane al confine con Israele, l'Egitto che non ha saputo difendere le persone dalle mani dei trafficanti, ma cosi solerte nel ucciderli al confine per soddisfare l'insistente richiesta"&gt;Hundreds of refugees have died since 2005 under the bullets of the guards at the Egyptian border with Israel, Egypt, which has not been able to defend people from the hands of traffickers, but so zealous in killing them at the border to meet the insistent demand&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="di Israele a bloccare i profughi, non importa come oa che prezzo."&gt;Israel to stop the refugees, no matter how or at what price.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="L'Egitto che sta rispettando i diritti dei richiedenti asilo, trattenuti nelle sue stazioni di polizia o campi militari ad Aswan."&gt;Egypt, which is not respecting the rights of asylum seekers detained in its police stations or military camps in Aswan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="L'Egitto che non ha esitato a deportare richiedenti asilo violando convenzioni e trattati internazionali."&gt;Egypt who did not hesitate to deport asylum seekers violates international conventions and treaties.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Israele, che sta costruendo muro, come leggiamo in questi giorni intende completare in tempi brevi la costrizione del muro, nel fra tempo vole progettare come deportare le migliaia di persone che sono arrivati in Israele alla ricerca di protezione, che lo stato ebraico non ha mai"&gt;Israel, which is building the wall, as we read these days will shortly complete the constriction of the wall, in between time Vole plan how to deport thousands of people who came to Israel in search of protection, that the Jewish state has never&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="voluto riconoscerli."&gt;wanted to recognize them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="46 mila immigrati di cui circa 20 mila richiedenti asilo politico eritrei, altrettanto sudanesi che vivono alla giornata senza nessuna protezione o riconoscimento dei diritti."&gt;46 000 immigrants, of which about 20 000 Eritrean asylum seekers, so Sudanese who live from day to day with no protection or recognition of rights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Si conclude un 2011 terribile per centinaia di migliaia di profughi, quasi 2 mila morti nel Mediterraneo, altrettanto morti ammazzati in Libia, durante la caccia al Nero. Molte altre centinaia di persone morte nel Golfo di Aden nel tentativo di raggiungere lo Yemen."&gt;It concludes a terrible 2011 for hundreds of thousands of refugees, nearly 2 000 deaths in the Mediterranean, also murdered in Libya, during the hunt for the Black Many hundreds of people died in the Gulf of Aden in an attempt to reach Yemen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Più di 4 mila profughi eritrei ed etiopi intrappolati, nella guerra interna nello Yemen, più di 3 mila sudanesi, eritrei ed etiopi, nel campo profughi in Tunisia in attesa di un paese che gli accoglie, altrettanto in Egitto nel campo di Solume, al confine"&gt;More than 4 000 Eritreans and Ethiopians refugees trapped in the internal war in Yemen, more than 3 000 Sudanese, Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees in Tunisia in the field waiting for a country that welcomes, just as in Egypt in the field of Solum, the border&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="con la Libia."&gt;with Libya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ebeff9; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Ecco che torniamo a rinnovare il nostro appello alla comunità internazionale, di cercare delle soluzioni che durano nel tempo, non bastano più le cure palliative a delle malattie politiche, economiche, sociali che affliggono il continente Africano, in particolare il Corno d'Africa."&gt;Here we come back to renew our appeal to the international community to seek solutions that will last over time, not enough palliative care in diseases of the political, economic, social afflicting the African continent, particularly the Horn of Africa.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="La comunità internazionale e in particolare l'Unità Africana deve combattere con determinazione la tratta di esseri umani e di organi."&gt;The international community and in particular the determination of African Unity has to deal with trafficking in human beings and organs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Chiediamo a tutti gli organismi internazionali per la tutela dei diritti umani di fare una forte pressione su UA, UE, ONU perché questi organismi facciano altrettanta pressione su governi di Egitto, Sudan, Israele, Autorità Palestinasi, Etiopia ed Eritrea perché si impegnino a fermare il"&gt;We ask all international organizations for the protection of human rights to make a lot of pressure on the AU, EU, UN because these organisms do as much pressure on the governments of Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Palestinasi Authority, Ethiopia and Eritrea to commit themselves to stop the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="traffico di esseri umani che gli coinvolge gli attraversa."&gt;human trafficking that involves the crossing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;" title="Combattano contro il traffico di organi, sopratutto difendano i minori non accompagnati che vagano senza meta nei territori di questi paese, che spesso sono le vittime più esposte ad ogni pericolo."&gt;Fight against trafficking in organs, especially to defend unaccompanied minors who wander aimlessly in the territories of these countries, which are often the victims are more exposed to any danger.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Centinaia di profughi dal 2005 ad oggi sono morti sotto i colpi di arma delle guardie egiziane al confine con Israele, l'Egitto che non ha saputo&amp;nbsp;difendere le persone dalle mani dei trafficanti, ma cosi solerte nel ucciderli al confine per&amp;nbsp;soddisfare l'insistente richiesta di Israele a bloccare i profughi, non importa come o a che prezzo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;L'Egitto che non sta rispettando i diritti dei richiedenti asilo, trattenuti nelle sue stazioni di polizia o campi militari ad Aswan. L'Egitto che non ha esitato a deportare richiedenti asilo violando convenzioni e trattati internazionali.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Israele, che sta costruendo muro, come leggiamo in questi giorni intende completare in tempi brevi la costrizione del muro, nel&amp;nbsp;fra tempo vole progettare come deportare le migliaia di persone che sono arrivati in Israele alla ricerca di protezione, che lo stato ebraico non ha mai voluto riconoscerli. 46 mila immigrati di cui circa 20 mila richiedenti asilo politico eritrei, altrettanto sudanesi che vivono alla giornata senza nessuna protezione o riconoscimento dei diritti.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Si conclude un 2011 terribile per centinaia di migliaia di profughi, quasi 2 mila morti nel Mediterraneo, altrettanto morti ammazzati in Libia, durante la caccia al Nero. Molte altre centinaia di persone morte nel Golfo di Aden nel tentativo di&amp;nbsp;raggiungere lo Yemen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Più di 4 mila profughi eritrei ed etiopi&amp;nbsp;intrappolati, nella guerra interna nello Yemen, più di 3 mila sudanesi, eritrei ed etiopi, nel campo profughi in Tunisia&amp;nbsp;in attesa di un paese che gli accoglie,&amp;nbsp;altrettanto in Egitto&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;nel campo di Solume, al confine con la Libia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Ecco che torniamo a rinnovare il nostro appello alla comunità internazionale, di cercare delle soluzioni che durano nel tempo, non bastano più le cure&amp;nbsp;palliative a delle&amp;nbsp;malattie politiche, economiche, sociali che&amp;nbsp;affliggono il continente Africano, in particolare il Corno d'Africa. La comunità internazionale e&amp;nbsp;in particolare&amp;nbsp;l'Unità Africana deve combattere con determinazione la tratta di esseri umani e di organi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px;"&gt;Chiediamo a tutti gli&amp;nbsp;organismi internazionali per la tutela dei diritti umani di fare una forte pressione su UA, UE, ONU perché questi organismi facciano&amp;nbsp;altrettanta pressione su governi&amp;nbsp;di Egitto, Sudan, Israele, Autorità Palestinasi, Etiopia ed Eritrea perché si impegnino a fermare il traffico di esseri umani che gli&amp;nbsp;coinvolge&amp;nbsp;gli&amp;nbsp;attraversa.&amp;nbsp;Combattano&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;contro il traffico di organi,&amp;nbsp;sopratutto&amp;nbsp;difendano i minori non&amp;nbsp;accompagnati che vagano senza meta nei territori di questi paese, che spesso sono le vittime più esposte ad ogni pericolo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Group Locates Hideout of the Trafficker Abu Musa; Launches “Free the Refugees of Ferah" Appeal&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;The NGOs &amp;amp; human rights organization has sent the Egyptian and international institutions and the media the personal data of the notorious trafficker in human beings who is holding 59 Eritrean migrants hostage and torturing them every day with his brothers. A photo of Abu Musa has been sent to the Egyptian authorities and the UN.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"We have identified the hideout of Abu Musa, the most ruthless, powerful and well-organized Bedouin smuggler of human beings operating in Egyptian Sinai."&lt;br /&gt;
The announcement was made by NGOs. "Abu Musa is currently holding 59 Eritrean migrants hostage in two rooms (37 in one, 22 in the other). In the room with 37 refugees, aged between 17 and 38 (with whom we are in constant telephone contact) there are 8 women, some of them pregnant.&lt;br /&gt;
The hideout they are being detained in is situated in Ferah, a village near Mount Sinai, just an hour's drive from Israel, in the St Katherine Protectorate of South Sinai. After speaking directly to the hostages themselves, and the uncle of one of the migrants who lives in Germany and acts as interpreter for us in the Tigrinya language," say the activists," and thanks to investigations in the area, we now know the exact location where the Eritreans are are being held, chained up in an underground shipping container three and a half metres deep.&lt;br /&gt;
The main structure is similar to a hotel surrounded by tukuls. It has two red entrance doors and is guarded round the clock by four armed men. There are three other modern buildings with red roofs under construction nearby. Abu Musa lives in a three-storey house not far from the hideout, with a warehouse at the back, a pine tree and several prickly pears. To get about, the traffickers drive a 2011 Toyota pick-up (probably a Toyota Cruise).&lt;br /&gt;
The vehicle is white and blue with a red stripe, and a number 5726 licence plate. "The NGOs have also sent the Egyptian and international police a profile of the trafficker and a possible photo of the smuggler, picked out by the hostages: "Abu Musa is between 45 and 50 years old, he is lean and swarthy and is related to the Muzeina Bedouin tribe.&lt;br /&gt;
Originally from Wadi Saal he speaks English and works as a tourist guide in the desert with his father and brothers. His friends and family call him "Samih" or "El Baah" which in the Bedouin dialect means “The Deep One”. He is respected by the local community and considered one of the best guides in the whole of Southern Sinai .Youssuf, Abu Musa's 19-year-old brother, has already killed at least 4 migrants. Three young men of 18 were murdered at 7 pm on November 9th and another young man last night. Another prisoner was taken away by the traffickers some days ago and has not been heard of since.&lt;br /&gt;
NGOs Group reports episodes of beatings and torture of the detained migrants every day. A 22-year-old was given electric shocks to his feet and is now paralyzed, another had his little finger amputated, while the remaining prisoners have been burned on the back with molten plastic. The women have been repeatedly raped and burned with cigarette ends. All prisoners have infected wounds.&lt;br /&gt;
"The latest threat is that if the prisoners' families do not pay the ransom very soon (with sums that vary from between 25 and 30,000 dollars per person) the refugees will be killed. We are launching an urgent appeal to the Egyptian police, but also to the United Nations and the European Union" write NGOs Group in a report sent to all the Egyptian diplomatic missions throughout the world. "We are asking that Abu Musa be immediately arrested, and the young African migrants released and protected according to their fundamental rights to life, health and freedom."&lt;/div&gt;
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Three Eritrean families who were given protection here left to embark on a new life in Ireland this morning.&lt;/div&gt;
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The group of 10, who included four children, will be met on their arrival by staff from the Irish Department of Justice and Equality.&lt;/div&gt;
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They will be accommodated in a reception centre with other recently arrived and resettled refugees and asylum seekers. After a short orientation programme they will transfer to their permanent residence.&lt;/div&gt;
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Their departure follows a commitment made by Ireland earlier this year to relocate people granted international protection from Malta. Ireland's Minister of Justice and Equality Alan Shatter said this was a gesture of solidarity with his Maltese counterpart Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, who expressed appreciation at Ireland's contribution.&lt;/div&gt;
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The Malta office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) undertook the counselling and referral of potential beneficiaries. The International Organisation for Migration - Malta took on the tasks of conducting cultural orientation courses, as well as undertaking the logistical preparations related to the departure.&lt;/div&gt;
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This is the second instance where the Irish Government has accepted to relocate a number of protected persons from Malta. It relocated another 10 people from Malta in 2007.&lt;/div&gt;
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The Home Affairs Ministry, through its Third-Country Nationals Unit and respective entities falling under its remit, including the agency for the welfare of asylum seekers and the Office of the Refugee Commissioner, and in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration, coordinated this exercise with its Irish counterparts.&lt;/div&gt;
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Seeing off the migrants at the Malta International Airport this morning, Parliamentary Assistant Beppe Fenech Adami expressed his satisfaction at the successful completion of this intra-EU reallocation exercise with Ireland, which he described as a concrete expression of solidarity in the field of migration by Ireland.&lt;/div&gt;
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He thanked the ministry's staff and the Irish Ambassador to Malta, Jim Hennessy and the Irish authorities for their hard work in making this project possible.&lt;/div&gt;
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This reallocation of asylum beneficiaries to Ireland follows a similar exercise a fortnight ago when another 150 persons were given an opportunity to relocate to Germany.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Cari tutti, in questi giorni mi sono chiesto cosa si potesse fare, per quello che sta avvenendo con sempre maggiore frequenza nel nostro paese, dall'aggressione ai Tamil a Palermo, i Kurdi a Roma, fino ad arrivare agli ultimi fatti di Torino e Firenze. Credo che la strada sia ancora quella di credere nelle nostre idee e non avere paura, per questo credo che bisogna chiedere il ripristino dell'accoglienza a Lampedusa, certo non nei modi in cui la abbiamo conosciuta, ma garantendo quel primo soccorso e quei trasferimenti in tempi veloci dall'isola, credo possa essere un segnale a tutto il paese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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«&amp;nbsp; [...]Pensavo di trovare in Italia uno spazio di vita, una ventata di civiltà, un'accoglienza che mi permettesse di vivere in pace e di coltivare il sogno di un domani senza barriere né pregiudizi. Invece sono deluso. Avere la pelle nera in questo paese è un limite alla convivenza civile. Il razzismo è anche qui: è fatto di prepotenze, di soprusi, di violenze quotidiane con chi non chiede altro che solidarietà e rispetto. Noi del terzo mondo stiamo contribuendo allo sviluppo del vostro paese, ma sembra che ciò non abbia alcun peso. Prima o poi qualcuno di noi verrà ammazzato ed allora ci si accorgerà che esistiamo&amp;nbsp; »&lt;/div&gt;
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L’omicidio di Jerry Masslo (24/08/1989) che tra le altre cose fu la causa che portò&amp;nbsp; a varare in tempi record il Decreto Legge 30 dicembre n. 416, recante norme urgenti sulla condizione dello straniero, convertito poi nella Legge n. 39 del 1990: la legge Martelli, fu un evento che mobilitò migliaia di persone ed aprì un dibattito vero e serio sui diritti degli stranieri in Italia, da allora alcune cose sono cambiate, ma in questi ultimi anni la situazione rispetto al razzismo ed alla violenza nei confronti del diverso è peggiorata in maniera vistosa. &amp;nbsp;Alcuni casi emblematici che sono saliti alla ribalta come la strage di Castelvolturno&amp;nbsp; del 18 settembre 2008, o Rosarno nel gennaio del 2010, quando gruppi di migranti sfruttati e sottopagati venivano feriti con un arma a aria compressa, e dopo le loro proteste scattava “La caccia al nero”,&amp;nbsp; in quei giorni l’allora ministro dell’interno Roberto Maroni dichiarava : «In questi anni è stata tollerata l'immigrazione clandestina che ha alimentato la criminalità e ha generato situazioni di forte degrado» individuando come sempre il problema in chi aveva subito da anni sfruttamento e maltrattamento, e non nella diffusa illegalità di quel territorio e dell’assenza dello stato in alcune zone d’Italia,&amp;nbsp; Rosarno è un comune sciolto per infiltrazioni mafiose nel 2008 dove ci sono pochissime piazze e luoghi di ritrovo. Episodi che si ricollegano agli scontri tra un gruppo di Lampedusani e i migranti nel settembre del 2011 e su cui tornerò dopo. Episodi che si ricollegano agli ultimi fatti di Torino e Firenze, ma molti altri ce ne sono stati, e sembra che sia un crescendo che viene accompagnato da una inadeguata risposta da parte delle istituzioni e che la società civile e i gruppi antirazzisti spesso si trovano a dovere contrastare da soli, in situazioni che sono al limite e in certi casi, come quelli citati sopra, in comunità silenziose e assoggettate al potere criminale.&lt;/div&gt;
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Da qui ritorno a Lampedusa, isola in cui noi viviamo e da cui siamo stati (Askavusa) nel bene e nel male in prima fila, non solo nell’accoglienza, quando ne abbiamo avuto la possibilità, ma nel contrasto a quelle forme di razzismo che abbiamo visto emergere in una parte della popolazione locale. Lampedusa oggi più che mai, credo sia il polso dell’Italia, da qui un osservatore attento può guardare i mali e le cose belle dello stivale compressi in circa 25 km quadrati. L’immigrazione è uno dei temi centrali che l’Italia e l’Europa sono state costrette ad affrontare, e Lampedusa ne è stata uno dei punti focali. La porta d’Europa, l’isola dove si venera la Madonna di Porto Salvo, che ha una storia antichissima e che è legata in maniera indissolubile al mediterraneo, oggi &amp;nbsp;è “Porto non sicuro”. Come è potuto accadere ?&lt;/div&gt;
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Cerco di essere breve perché la questione è articolata :&lt;/div&gt;
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Dopo vent’anni in cui i migranti passavano da Lampedusa restando al massimo qualche giorno e che qualcuno chiamava “Modello Lampedusa” ,ma che andava anche quello migliorato in molte aspetti, &amp;nbsp;nel 2009 il ministro dell’interno Maroni con il governo Berlusconi, decide di fare di Lampedusa un luogo di detenzione, &amp;nbsp;sbandierando come soluzione del “Problema immigrazione” gli accordi con i dittatori Gheddafi e Ben Alì, che avrebbero fatto rispettare a suon di milioni di euro, applicando i respingimenti, pratica questa che l’Europa aveva condannato e che in quei giorni gli stessi che a Lampedusa hanno poi aggredito i migranti tunisini, salutavano con gioia. Nel 2011 poi si arriva alla follia più totale lasciando a Lampedusa migliaia di ragazzi tunisini per le strade di Lampedusa, senza alcuna assistenza, l’unica presenza dello Stato era repressiva, ma tutto reggeva sulle spalle di molti lampedusani, che in quell’occasione mostrarono lo straordinario patrimonio che la gente di mare si porta dentro, con generosità e amore si riuscì a sostenere una situazione insostenibile che durò per tre lunghissimi mesi, anche in quell’occasione gli stessi che applaudivano ai respingimenti, dicevano che stavamo sbagliando tutto, che “Troppo buoni si passa a troppo stupidi”, e rievocavano la “Cattiveria” che predicava Maroni il quale usava parole come “Invasione, esodo”. I dati che riporterà l’IOM ci raccontano che fino al 14 settembre 2011 da Lampedusa erano passati circa settantamila migranti mentre la &amp;nbsp;Tunisia della post-rivoluzione e senza tanti allarmismi ne accoglieva circa 300 mila, 220.000 in Egitto, 80.000 in Nigeria, 50.000 in Ciad. &amp;nbsp;Scampati quei tre mesi senza incidenti rilevanti, anzi dimostrando una capacità da parte di molti lampedusani di cose incredibili e di una solidarietà smisurata, con un gesto da mago Berlusconi fa sparire dall’isola tutti i migranti, &amp;nbsp;in quell’occasione quelli che applaudivano ai respingimenti, quelli&amp;nbsp; che invocavano la cattiveria, impediscono di protestare con violenza e sotto gli occhi delle “Forze dell’ordine” un gruppo di persone, che in maniera civile voleva mostrare il proprio dissenso nei confronti del presidente del consiglio che si era recato sull’isola. Dopo di ciò nei mesi estivi il centro di Imbriacola diventa un lager, molti minori restano in situazioni disumane nell’altro centro a ponente (Ex base Loran) senza potere uscire, senza potere essere visitati da chi voleva farlo. Quando denunciavamo la situazione, nessuno voleva ascoltare, anzi bisognava non parlarne più, l’importante era che non si vedessero per strada, come succede adesso, cosi quando a settembre un gruppo di tunisini all’interno del centro comincio a fare lo sciopero della fame, a praticare autolesioni , &amp;nbsp;a protestare, tutti sapevano, ma nessuno , nessuno fece niente. All’indomani della visita dell’ex ministro La russa al centro di Imbriacola, il 18 settembre, in cui lo stesso dichiarava “I clandestini a Lampedusa stanno bene”, talmente stavano bene che per festeggiare bruciano un padiglione del centro.&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;I ragazzi tunisini escono per le strade e si mettono vicino ad una pompa di benzina, li vicino ci sono due bombole del gas fuori &amp;nbsp;da un ristorante , nessuno delle forze dell’ordine ha il buon senso di levarle dalla portata dei migranti, due tunisini infatti prendono con facilità una bombola minacciando di farsi saltare in aria davanti al distributore, &amp;nbsp;un gruppo di Lampedusani che era appostato nelle vicinanze si scaglia sul gruppo di tunisini con mazze e pietre che avevano in precedenza preparato, anche di questo nessuno se ne era accorto ? E insieme alle forze dell’ordine le danno di santa ragione ai tunisini. Da allora Lampedusa è stata dichiarata porto non sicuro, e molti di quelli che erano li a colpire i più deboli della catena, quei lampedusani &amp;nbsp;favorevoli ai respingimenti, ai CIE etc , il 22 settembre erano &amp;nbsp;a portare in processione la statua della “Madonna di Porto Salvo”. &amp;nbsp;Nell’ultimo mese sono state incendiate due vetture della società che gestisce il centro, &amp;nbsp;dopo la visita di una delegazione di parlamentari europei, che ha dichiarato che Lampedusa deve ritornare al suo ruolo di isola di salvezza, è stato bruciato un deposito del centro di accoglienza. Su questi fatti chiedo di riflettere le autorità se hanno coscienza, si è affermato un metodo, come risoluzione dei problemi, questo metodo è la violenza, che non viene punita, non viene condannata, ma anzi viene premiata. Se Lampedusa avesse avuto maggiore rispetto da parte delle istituzioni a tutti i livelli, se fosse stata tutelata la comunità locale garantendone e facendo rispettare diritti e doveri, se fosse passato il dialogo come metodo invece che le scelte del governo imposte con atti di forza e poi ripreso a modello di comportamento da alcuni lampedusani, se l’illegalità diffusa e la prepotenza fossero state fermate e non prese come un modello “Nazionale” di comportamento, Lampedusa non sarebbe Porto non sicuro, ma un laboratorio di accoglienza e integrazione, e quando dico che Lampedusa è il polso dell’Italia, affermo anche : che ciò che è valido a Lampedusa è valido nella buona parte del paese.Ovvio che&amp;nbsp;a noi ci piacerebbe che la gente si muovesse in libertà, con voli di linea o con navi di linea, ma questo&amp;nbsp;al momento sembra impossibile.&amp;nbsp;Ci vuole una condanna secca alla violenza, ma come può uno stato che lascia produrre armi, che è uno dei maggiori produttori di &amp;nbsp;mine antiuomo, che fa la guerra, che ha pezzi di stato collusi con la criminalità, fare questo ed essere credibile ? Bisogna assolutamente ripristinare il metodo democratico ed il dialogo come forma di mediazione, ma senza l’esempio ed il supporto delle istituzioni questo sarà molto difficile. La società civile ha un ruolo importantissimo in questo, &amp;nbsp;può essere uno stimolo enorme. Io credo che si debba e si possa cominciare da Lampedusa, ripristinando quella sua funzione di primo soccorso e accoglienza, ma garantendo in maniera definitiva il massimo di tre giorni per i migranti che transitano sull’isola e l’apertura del centro alla comunità lampedusana che possa instaurare un rapporto umano con i migranti. Per fare questo c’è bisogno di condannare fermamente le violenze che sono avvenute e stanno avvenendo nel nostro paese ed aprire una nuova stagione di integrazione e dialogo, affermando la non violenza come uno dei principi cardini della nostra società. Ma c’è bisogno anche di un lavoro preventivo nelle scuole, nei luoghi pubblici, nei comportamenti e nelle affermazioni di chi rappresenta politicamente gli elettori.&lt;/div&gt;
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Speriamo che come la morte di Masslo anche la morte di questi nostri fratelli del Senegal possa servire almeno ad aprire gli occhi di molte persone e tradursi in norme culturali e legali. Speriamo che i lampedusani tutti possano riflettere sul ruolo importante che Lampedusa ha avuto e può avere per la prima accoglienza e contro ogni forma di razzismo, che la nostra comunità possa tornare a parlare e capirsi. Credo sempre che si possa cambiare, che gli uomini possano migliorare la propria condizione, cosi come va condannata la violenza, va promosso il dialogo, con tutti, in specie con chi ha vedute diverse dalle nostre.&lt;/div&gt;
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Ci stringiamo con i Rom di Torino , con i Senegalesi di Firenze, con i collettivi dei migranti di Napoli che si stanno organizzando, con i lavoratori di Nardò &amp;nbsp;e con tutti coloro che sono minoranze non tutelate e maltrattate, mostriamo la nostra vicinanza e il nostro affetto.&lt;/div&gt;
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color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;a sign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;is bright&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;, do not know&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;exactly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;where they&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;lead&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;but they believe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;in it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;We travel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;in pursuit of a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;dream:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;is a hope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;not&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;certainty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;but we believe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;in it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; 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color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;to never turn off&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;With the hope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;of being able&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;to spread&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;around the world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;to make it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; 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color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;that this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;happens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;thanks&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;to you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Holy Christmas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;and Happy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;New&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Don&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Mussie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Zerai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Yosief&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The text of the bill contains the following provisions: automatic criminalization of any person's entry into Israel without a permit - with no discernment or consideration of the circumstances of his or her entry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a defender of the human rights of those Eritreans attempting to escape the horrors that constitute their daily life in Eritrea, I am deeply distressed to learn that such anti-humane measures are being considered by the Knesset Committee. Some of the people who would be affected by this law are hundreds of Eritrean refugees who suffer the worst forms of abuse while trying to reach Israel through Egypt. By labelling refugees and asylum seekers as ‘infiltrators’ they have been effectively criminalised, and left open to even more abuse which is this time ‘legitimised’ because it is supposedly anti-terrorist. The new proposals would also criminalise anybody who attempted to help these innocent and helpless asylum seekers. I myself, therefore, a Human Rights activist, would be subject to five years in prison if I were nearer in person to these displaced people rather than attempting to help them while living in diaspora. I am not, however, a criminal. The 13,000 Eritrean refugees who have ’infiltrated’ Israel are not criminals. They are no more criminal than the millions of Jews who fled Nazi persecution during the Second World War.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The declared purpose of this amendment is to deter asylum seekers, who have been entering Israel in recent years, from doing so. The result would be a massive abuse of human rights. How could a seven-year prison sentence imposed on those who offer humanitarian aid to refugees, and up to fifteen years should a person persist in offering aid after being prosecuted, in any way further human progress?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the Eritrean dictator, Isaias Afewerki, maintains a situation where any able-bodied citizen is conscripted into the army for indefinite periods, using the threat of another war with Ethiopia , the State of Israel’s closest ally in Africa, as the ‘reason’, stating that Ethiopia is a ‘threat’ to national security, it should be understood that these soldiers are mainly involuntary; that the average Eritrean has no quarrel with Ethiopia, much less with Israel; the Eritreans entering Israel, those who are lucky enough to arrive alive, are only seeking a decent life where they can work and eat and not be in constant fear of their leader and his inhuman policies. Unfortunately, those who manage to reach Israel receive no medical treatment, no lodgings, no papers, no jobs, and no means for living as normal citizens; the Israeli Parliament has now proposed to resolve this problem by deporting them or locking them up, branding them as criminals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To enforce the new law, it has been proposed that a prison be built in the Israeli Negev desert that would cost over a billion shekels to erect and run for its first year alone. This huge prison facility would host 10,000 people. Many of these people are already living in a country that is, itself, a giant prison. But Eritrea is not a signatory of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees; Israel, however, is a signatory. Israel also joined the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1967, as well as the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which elaborates on the ban against deporting asylum seekers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The State of Israel is currently home to 36,000 thousand asylum seekers, the vast majority of whom have never had their asylum claims checked and are left with no social or medical rights, as well as no right to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel began drafting an official constitution in 2003. Eritrea never implemented its constitution, and when this was pointed out by some high-profile journalists, they were imprisoned without trial; any criticism of the Eritrean government results in imprisonment. There have been no national elections since Eritrea gained formal independence in 1993. It is a one-party state. This means there is only one choice, and for a persecuted, hungry, and jobless Eritrean, or one who has had their business taken over by the state, and does not wish to languish either in the army for the rest of their lives, or in prisons (some of which are so bad that even the guards try to escape), fleeing to Israel, even at the risk of further tribulation, is the only real choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A special court is widely held to exist where judges who also serve as prosecutors are selected by, and only accountable to, the president. Trials are conducted in secret and defendants are not allowed legal representation. Released prisoners and other sources also describe a system of extra-judicial sentencing by secret committees. Although we have no reports of the death sentence being passed by the courts there are numerous reports of summary executions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The location of most detention centres is not publicised and visits are usually prohibited, including by family members, who are often not officially informed of the detention. The International Committee of the Red Cross is denied access to Eritrean prisoners. Many sites are below ground where prisoners are kept in dark cells. Elsewhere, detainees are held in metal shipping containers where temperatures are believed to reach the high 40s (Centigrade). There are reports of severe overcrowding. Former guards and detainees describe food, water and medical supplies being strictly limited or withheld. There are multiple reports of systematic torture and people dying in detention. Detainees have described a series of punishments where people are tied in painful positions, for as long as weeks at a time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NGOs are not allowed to operate independently and there are presently no independent journalists in Eritrea. The Reporters Without Borders 2010 annual report ranked Eritrea bottom of 178 countries worldwide for press freedom, and the organisation estimated that around 30 journalists were imprisoned in Eritrea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thousands risk their lives to leave the country illegally every month, despite the shoot-to-kill policy reported to be in force on the border. This is fuelling a demand for people smugglers. Unable to leave by normal means, many Eritreans decide to risk kidnap, extortion, rape and death at the hands of the smugglers in order to leave the country. Some end up having their organs removed against their will and sold on the black market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Eritrean dictator, Isaias Afewerki, has been using the excuse of ‘national security considerations’ to rob imprison torture and murder his own people for nigh on two decades. It would seem that the State of Israel is prepared to be as immorally repellent by using the same empty rhetoric, fuelled by concerted media campaigns, to help break the spirit of the African nation that has the worst human rights record of them all.&lt;/div&gt;
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Elsa Chyrum&lt;br /&gt;Director&lt;br /&gt;Human Rights Concern – Eritrea&lt;br /&gt;London, SW7 5WS&lt;br /&gt;United Kingdom&lt;br /&gt;12 December 2011&lt;/div&gt;
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L’Alto Commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i Rifugiati (UNHCR) esprime sconcerto per l’episodio di violenza omicida che ha colpito ieri la comunità senegalese a Firenze e cordoglio alle famiglie delle vittime.&lt;/div&gt;
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“A pochi giorni dall’attacco al campo rom di Torino, il raccapricciante duplice omicidio di Firenze evidenzia il clima di crescente razzismo e xenofobia che sta emergendo negli ultimi anni in Italia e in altri paesi europei, - ha affermato Laurens Jolles, Rappresentante per il Sud Europa dell’UNHCR - un pericolo che è stato troppo spesso sottovalutato.”&lt;/div&gt;
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