Migrantes

France begins eviction of 650 migrants from Calais camps

Published in Wednesday May 28th, 2014 In In the media

French police have begun expelling around 650 migrants from camps in the northern port of Calais, despite opposition from rights groups supporting asylum seekers.

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European leaders urged to end plight of 600,000 stateless people

Published in Wednesday May 28th, 2014 In In the media

Europe’s leaders must take action to end the plight of some 600,000 stateless people who are stuck in a nightmarish legal limbo within its borders, campaigners said on Wednesday as they launched a petition calling for governments to consign statelessness to the history books.

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Roma migrants evicted from Stockholm site

Published in Monday February 17th, 2014 In In the media

The Swedish Enforcement Agency (Kronofogden) carried out the eviction in Högdalen, a suburb in the southern reaches of Stockholm, at 9am on Monday, just days after a bus load of the campers went home.

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Unwanted Roma

Published in Friday February 14th, 2014 In In the media

Hundreds of thousands of Roma – mostly from Romania and Bulgaria – have moved to Western Europe since the 1990s. Widely perceived as scroungers and thieves, they are rarely made welcome.

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France Evicts Over 21 Thousand Roma Migrants in 2013

Published in Wednesday January 15th, 2014 In In the media

French authorities evicted more than 21 537 Roma migrants in 2013, more than double the total for 2012, official data showed. In comparison, some 9 404 Roma were forcibly evicted in 2012 and 8 455 in 2011, according to data provided by the same organizations.

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France deports record number of Roma

Published in Wednesday January 15th, 2014 In In the media

France forcibly evicted a record 19,380 Roma migrants in 2013 — more than double the figure from the previous year — two rights groups said in a joint report released Tuesday. The France-based Human Rights League (LDH) and the Hungary-based European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) said the number was a startling increase from the 9,404 Roma evicted in 2012 and the 8,455 evicted in 2011.

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EU migrants to be helped find homes by assigned housing officer in Aberdeen

Published in Wednesday January 8th, 2014 In In the media

The city council has revealed that 18.5 per cent of housing applications are from the migrant worker community and councillors believe migrants have not been given the same level of information and advice about entitlement to local authority housing since the city council stopped funding the project three years ago.

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Roma leader says his people will be forced to beg on Britain’s streets

Published in Thursday November 7th, 2013 In In the media

A Roma leader has warned that travellers who move to Britain from Romania and Bulgaria when the border restrictions are lifted will turn to begging or black market trades if they cannot access social welfare. Rudko Kawczynski, president of the European Roma Travellers Forum, criticised the panic over the opening up of European Union labour markets to Romanians and Bulgarians from January, which has prompted fears about large numbers of Roma heading to Britain, France and Germany.

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FIFA : Make the World Cup a Fair Game for Workers

Published in Wednesday July 17th, 2013 In Social movement news

Workers employed on construction projects to prepare for the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, most of whom are migrant workers, face numerous human rights violations, according to FIDH. In a letter sent today to the President of FIFA, Mr. Joseph Sepp Blatter, FIDH recalled the sports organisation’s responsibility to investigate and remedy reports that workers are being subject to unfair payment practices, excessive work hours, racist violence, and work conditions that can amount to forced labour.

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One Vermont Town Fights a Farm to Improve Housing for Migrant Workers

Published in Thursday July 11th, 2013 In In the media

In Salisbury, town officials have made the unusual choice to intervene in a case of second-rate worker housing. At a dairy farm owned by Randy and Jean Quesnel, two Latino farmworkers have been living in filth for years. The laborers, who are in the country illegally, live in a small bunkhouse affixed to the barn where they milk cows. The two-room dwelling has an open wastewater drain in the middle of the concrete floor. There’s no indoor toilet; the workers must walk past the cow stanchions to a Porta-Potty outside the barn.

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