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Spain
Euroviews. Countries are suspending immigration detention due to coronavirus. Let’s keep it that way ǀ View
The Spanish authorities have not suddenly had a change of heart regarding the use of immigration detention but rather recognised what activists have been saying all along – health and legal issues make the system untenable.
Greece
Euroviews. Using empty Greek hotels to host refugees threatened by COVID-19 is a win-win scenario ǀ View
While the first attempt to use empty hotels for quarantining a thousand of the most vulnerable migrants on the Greek islands has just been announced by the European Commission, more remains to be done.
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Libya
Euroviews. Ignoring COVID-19 cases at Libya migrant centres will have dire consequences for Europe ǀ View
Both individual countries like Italy and the EU overall will need to strike the political balance between the needs of their citizens and the humanitarian obligation to provide shelter for refugees and migrants.
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Euroviews. COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate against refugees with disabilities. Neither should our response ǀ View
Security Council members vowed to do their best to make sure that the needs of people with disabilities were part in the humanitarian response in Syria and beyond. Now that the world is trying to defeat COVID-19, here’s your chance to make good on that promise.
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Euroviews. Love in the time of coronavirus: why our lives in crisis should foster empathy for refugees ǀ View
At present, being in exile from my homeland of Canada (which has virtually shut its borders), feeling cut off from my loved ones overseas, gripped by anxiety for their well-being as well as my own, I have a new and visceral appreciation for the experiences of people caught up in catastrophes.