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President Biden: Don't Give Wall Street Control of Our Public Water Systems

New advisory report pushes disastrous privatization schemes.

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Intersex rights are human rights! Listen to intersex people and what they have to say! Treat them with respect, their experiences are important and valid! And stop surgeries on intersex babies! Thanks.

[elladastinkardiamou]

Revealed: the great European refugee scandal

Evidence obtained by the Guardian exposes a coordinated and unlawful EU assault on the rights of desperate people trying to cross the Mediterranean.

“While the level of violence at Greece’s border with Turkey has shocked many Europeans, Europe’s retreat from refugee rights did not begin last week. Greece’s decision to seal its borders and deny access to asylum is only the most visible escalation of an assault on people’s right to seek protection.

The groundwork for this was laid in the central Mediterranean, where the EU and Italy created a proxy force to do what they could not do themselves without openly violating international laws: intercept unwanted migrants and return them to Libya.

The strategy has relied on maintaining deniability of responsibility for Libyan coastguard operations. But the connivance revealed in the audio recordings is supported by previously unpublished letters between high-level EU mandarins, confirmed by inside sources and laid bare in emails from the Libyan coastguard, all obtained by the Guardian. Taken together, this evidence threatens to unravel a conspiracy in the Mediterranean that flouts international law in the name of migration control.

The Mediterranean is the theatre where tensions between Europe’s ideas of human rights do battle with continental politicians’ anxiety about African migration. Until 2009, Libya was a “safe” country of return because countries such as Italy said it was. Italian vessels would intercept migrants and persuade them to clamber off their boats with promises of passage to Italy, and then put them in handcuffs and sail them to Tripoli.

Italy shipped close to 900 people back to Libya in 2009. Among those returnees were 11 Eritreans and Somalis who complained to the European court of human rights. The court’s ruling in 2012 said Italy was guilty of refoulement and had violated the men’s right to claim asylum and not to be returned to an unsafe port. In rejecting Italy’s arguments, one of the judges pointed out that “refugees have the right to have rights.”

This ruling, named the Hirsi ruling after one of the returnees, means any refoulement operation, even one carried out by a proxy force, would be vulnerable to international legal scrutiny if an EU state could be shown to be controlling and directing these operations. Europe had to find allies in Libya who were capable of intercepting migrants on the high seas without overt direction from the Europeans.

The project of building a proxy took off in the summer of 2017. At that time Libya, in the middle of a civil war, had no centralised coastguard and no capacity to manage its own search and rescue area. From the outset it was a joint project between Rome and Brussels: Italy provided ships while the EU trained and paid the new coastguards, often recruiting from among militias and smugglers.

To bolster the legitimacy of the new coastguard, paperwork needed to be lodged with the International Maritime Organization declaring that Libya now managed its own search and rescue zone. Court documents from a case in Catania, Sicily, would later show that one of the first telephone numbers listed for the coastguard was an Italian number.

But European money and material would not be enough to create an effective interception force. The former militiamen and smugglers who were now in coastguard uniforms struggled to reduce crossings. According to leaked internal documents from Operation Sophia from 2018, after more than a year of training and financial support the Libyan coastguard was still unable to control its own search and rescue area. To stop more crossings to Europe, they were going to need even more help.”

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[deadnametrading]

Published on Mar 17, 2016

Hundreds of Russian riot police confronted members of a Roma community near the southern city of Tula on Thursday. Authorities say that Roma residents illegally tapped into the gas pipeline, and tampering with it cut access to nearly 400 homes. The Roma tried to block Gazprom employees from working on the pipeline, demanding access to their homes as well.

[elladastinkardiamou]

Prisoners in Greece are obliged to donate up to 10 000 euro to a charitable foundation, as a condition to be released from prison. This reform in legislation was introduced as a ‘solution’ to the issue of carceral overpopulation since it would allow prison decongestion. But, for legislators, freedom is not a privilege that comes without a price tag. Seropositive prisoners have brought forward to Epohi, a national newspaper in Greece, that despite their right to release under the new law reforms, they still remain in prison because they can’t afford to donate the amount ruled by the court, to the charity foundation ‘A child’s smile’, due to their lack of monetary funds. More specifically, the court demands 800 euro from D.M., 1 500 euro from I.M., 3 000 euro from S.S. and 5 000 euro from I.M.. Only one prisoner, S.M., was able to deposit the amount of 800 euro that had been adjudicated, in order to become decarcerated.

[globalvoices]

We can say with certainty that the law is not working. So why the fuck did they adopt it if they can't implement it?

With Just Over 50 Entries, Kremlin Blogger Registry Gets No Love

[globalvoices]

Thailand's army, which grabbed power last May, has outlawed the public gathering of five or more people. But there is a natural link between the Hong Kong protesters and their Thai allies.

It's Illegal to Hold a Rally in Thailand, but Students Did It Anyway to Support Hong Kong's Protesters