The ongoing humanitarian crisis unfolding in Europe draws attention to Member States doing the very least in response to the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War. As the world looks on, we are seeing more efforts to seal off borders within the EU as opposed to upholding human dignity – we urgently need […]
Posts Tagged ‘Refugees’
Refugees deserve an organised and compassionate EU response to their needs
Mar 18th, 2016 by Claude Moraes.
Labour must show its compassion in this refugee crisis
Feb 3rd, 2016 by Claude Moraes.When the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn visited the Calais and Grande-Synthe camps on the 23 January it was his first official trip abroad as Leader of the Opposition. That someone who I personally know to have been committed to the refugee and immigration issue all of his political life this should have been a […]
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Dithering Dave and the refugees
Sep 8th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.I detest the term “game-changing“, but the wide publication of the little body of Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach touched millions of hearts coarsened by decades of anti-immigrant racism and hysteria. Having obstinately set his face against taking more refugees, Dave and his pitiful government were shamed by the huge numbers taken […]
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Why bombing would not have averted the Syrian refugee crisis
Sep 3rd, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Just a few of points by way of counterfactual theorising in response to James Bloodworth’s piece in the International Business Times about Syria and the decision not to go to war. James’s chief contention is that, had the Commons voted to bomb Assad and his regime this time two years ago, the appalling refugee crisis […]
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Labour should make inhumanity of Tories a key electoral issue
Oct 30th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.The Tory government’s decision to withdraw from the search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean where tens of thousands of refugees are fleeing their war-savaged homelands is an act of pitiless inhumanity. Already this year alone some 25,000 people have arrived in Italy, and similar numbers from Eritrea, with thousands more from Iraq, Nigeria and […]
