The sickening images of children cruelly separated from their parents and held in cages as a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ policy of ‘zero-tolerance’ will leave an indelible stain on the reputation of the USA, said Amnesty International today. “This is a spectacularly cruel policy, where frightened children are being ripped from their parent’s…
Category: REFUGEES
Libya: Shameful EU Policies Fuel Surge in Detention of Migrants and Refugees
A surge in migrants and refugees intercepted at sea by the Libyan authorities has seen at least 2,600 people transferred, in the past two months alone, to squalid detention centres where they face torture and extortion. The global human rights organisation accuses European governments of complicity in these abuses by actively supporting the Libyan authorities…
The Struggle – People vs Transnationals: Who ‘Owns’ Human Rights, Who Does Not
Juan Hernández Zubizarreta Interviewed by Andrea Gago Menor Translation by Internationalist 360° The transnationals increase their power and benefits thanks to mechanisms such as trade and investment agreements; the agreements allow the exploitation of resources and people; people look for other places to live. Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU),…
Necropolitics is at the Center of Migration Policies
Juan Hernández Zubizarreta Internationalist 360° Refugees and migrants are being left to die in the Mediterranean and are abandoned in the Sahara desert. This is necropolítics in action. Javier de Lucas believes that necropolítics is a “conception of politics in which the lives of others are the object of calculation and therefore lack intrinsic value…
The Causes of Forced Displacements: Necropolitics versus Human Rights
Juan Hernández Zubizarreta The so-called refugee crisis is neither spontaneous nor circumstantial, since it is linked to multiple structural reasons that sustain the economic and social model of domination, which implies addressing it from its root or the human tragedies that provoke forced displacement. they are going to stop. There are millions of people and…
Peoples’ Conference Tiquipaya Declaration Calls for a World Without Borders
This is the text of the Final Declaration of the World Conference of the Peoples for a World without Walls towards Universal Citizenship, which took place in Tiquipaya, 400 km from La Paz, between Tuesday and Wednesday. “The social movements, and citizens of the world, meeting in Tiquipaya, after listening to the testimonies of migrants…
