Pavan Kulkarni Jakelin’s grandfather Domingo holds a photo of her Hours after the body of 7-year-old Jakelin Maquin was sent back to her village in Guatemala – from where, in hope for a better life, she had set out with her father to the United States weeks ago – another 8-year-old Guatemalan immigrant died in…
Category: REFUGEES
The Plight of Children in a Neoliberal World
Peter Koenig The NYT wrote Christmas Day, that an 8-year old Guatemalan boy died in US Border Control custody. The circumstances are not clear, or are simply not reported. A month earlier, a 7-year old girl, also from Guatemala, died also in US Border Control custody. Here too, the circumstances are not revealed. How many…
UN Report Sheds Light on ‘Unimaginable Horrors’ Faced by Migrants and Refugees in Libya, and Beyond
Editorial Comment: There are appalling human rights abuses taking place in Libya, but the report is selective in that it fails to mention that abuses are committed by officials of the unelected, internationally recognized government in Tripoli and the criminal gangs and militias that serve them. Not only are refugees in danger, but any Libyan…
Grim Future Awaits Refugees Forcibly Disembarked from Vessel in Libya
Peoples Dispatch Using tear gas and rubber bullets, a Libyan coastguard team, on November 7, forced at least 79 refugees and migrants to disembark from a vessel that had rescued them from drowning in international waters. Using tear gas and rubber bullets, a Libyan coastguard team forced at least 79 refugees and migrants to disembark…
Honduras: Hunger Declares War on the Imperial Necropolitical State
Juan Almendarez Translation by Internationalist 360° Purpose The purpose of this essay is to point out two aspects of reality that are related to migration. The first one refers to peasant, indigenous and Garífuna communities that are attached to the territories and that aspire to defend their social and political spaces against capitalist accumulation by…
29 Years After Fall of Berlin Wall, Europe has 1,000 km of Walls to Stop Refugees
Pavan Kulkarni By last year, when a total of 68.5 million people were displaced due to armed conflict and violence across the world – about 25.4 million of whom were forced to flee from their countries – about 15 walls stood tall in their way to “safety” on European soil. A report released on the…
