ISRAEL – Eritreans Flee to Detention

TEL AVIV, Nov 30, 2011 (IPS) – Standing across the street from the American embassy in Tel Aviv, more than 200 Eritrean asylum seekers chanted “Yes to justice! Yes to humanity!”, and demanded international intervention to stop torture camps in the Egyptian Sinai. Protests by African asylum seekers in Israel are growing, in the face of increasingly tough policies by the Israelis.

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Sinai – New Appeal: Free the Refugees in the Town of Taba

Roberto Malini’s Point of View

Rome / Arish – North Sinai Governorate: the horrendous trafficking in human beings and organs continues, despite some smugglers releasing hundreds of Eritrean prisoners and, according to local sources, pulling out of the trafficking in human beings.
The release took place after complaints forwarded by EveryOne Group, the New Generation Foundation for Human Rights, ICER, and other NGOs to the Egyptian authorities and UN and European institutions. Not even the creation of a Bedouin security force, working in contact with the police, the army and the Egyptian intelligence services, or the death of Soliman Abdalah Necklawi, the trafficker known as “The Sultan” in a shoot-out, has stopped some criminals resorting to this horrendous trafficking.

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Roberto Malini’s Point of View

Sinai – New Appeal: Free the Refugees in the Town of Taba

By Roberto Malini

Rome / Arish – North Sinai Governorate: the horrendous trafficking in human beings and organs continues, despite some smugglers releasing hundreds of Eritrean prisoners and, according to local sources, pulling out of the trafficking in human beings.

Prisoners in the Sinai
Human Rights Defenders take on the Traffickers

By Roberto Malini  Rome /Arish –  http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=123193&L=en
What use are the actions undertaken by human rights defenders? What use are the campaigns, reports and complaints, contacts with the institutions and the media during these operations? Unfortunately, they are sometimes insufficient to prevent humanitarian tragedies taking place, or to save lives. This is not the case, however, for the long campaign that EveryOne Group and other NGOs involved in defending the rights of refugees has carried out to protect sub-Saharan migrants in Northern Sinai.Thanks to an enormous amount of evidence, reports, photographs and videos, human rights defenders have helped to save hundreds of human lives in the North Sinai Governorate. Thanks to the continuous presence of the media and several actions by the United Nations and European Union; thanks to the courageous work of organizations such as New Generation Foundation for Human Rights, ICER, Agenzia Habeshia, the NGO Gandhi, and other small and large organizations, many human beings have now been saved who were once destined for the human organs black market, brutal treatment in the traffickers’ hideouts, inhuman conditions in Egyptian prisons and deportation. This result does not lessen the pain for the many victims in the past, or the suffering of many other young refugees. However, we believe that every life saved is a miracle, an important step towards a human society without violence, discrimination and injustice.

Pope’s Message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees

“A New Evangelization Also in the Vast and Complex Phenomenon of Human Mobility”

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Proclaiming Jesus Christ the one Saviour of the world “constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent” (Evangelii Nuntiandi, 14). Indeed, today we feel the urgent need to give a fresh impetus and new approaches to the work of evangelization in a world in which the breaking down of frontiers and the new processes of globalization are bringing individuals and peoples even closer. This is both because of the development of the means of social communication and because of the frequency and ease with which individuals and groups can move about today. In this new situation we must reawaken in each one of us the enthusiasm and courage that motivated the first Christian communities to be undaunted heralds of the Gospel’s newness, making St Paul’s words resonate in our hearts: “For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!” (1 Cor 9:16).