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06 July 2019

Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1

News: 

A recent air strike on a migrant detention center in Tripoli killed over 50 people and injured many more. The following reports & commentary provide more information (organized chronologically):

"At Least 44 Die as Air Strike Hits Libya Migrant Detention Center: U.N.," Reuters, 2 July 2019 [text]

Libya: Abhorrent Attack on Migrant Detention Centre Must be Investigated as a War Crime (Amnesty International, 3 July 2019) [text]

"Libya Detention Centre Attack is Possible War Crime, Says UN Envoy," The Guardian, 3 July 2019 [text]

"Libya Migrant Centre Strike Followed Months of Warnings, Growing Violence," The New Humanitarian, 3 July 2019 [access]

Migrants Preparing to Return Home with IOM’s Assistance among Casualties of Libyan Detention Centre Airstrike (IOM, 3 July 2019 [text]

UNHCR, IOM Condemn Attack on Tajoura, Call for an Immediate Investigation of Those Responsible: Joint UNHCR/IOM Press Release (3 July 2019) [text]

"Why Attack on Libya Detention Centre was Grimly Predictable," The Guardian, 3 July 2019 [text]

Attack on Libyan Detention Centre an "Appalling Breach of International Law" - UN Network on Migration (IOM, 4 July 2019 [text]

"Libya Tragedy: Why Lock up Migrants in the First Place?," IPS News, 4 July 2019 [text]

"US Thwarts UN Security Council Condemnation of Attack on Libya Migrant Center," DW, 4 July 2019 [text]

"UN: Release All Refugees, Migrants from Libyan Detention Centers," VOA News, 5 July 2019 [text]

UNHCR Update: Libya (05 July 2019) [text]

Publications:

Australia’s Duty of Care to Detained Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2019) [text]

Country Profiles (Global Detention Project, May-June 2019)
- Updated profiles are available for: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Portugal.

Good Practices and Initiatives of Gender-Responsive Migration Legislation, Policies, and Practices: Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (Global Detention Project, May 2019) [text]

Judicial Analysis: Detention of Applicants for International Protection in the Context of the Common European Asylum System, EASO Professional Development Series for Members of Courts and Tribunals (European Asylum Support Office, May 2019) [access]
- See also related compilation of jurisprudence.

Risk Management in Immigration Detention (Australian Human Rights Commission, June 2019) [text via APO]
- See also related Guardian article.

"UN Inspectors Primed for 'Unfettered Access' to Australian Detention Centres," The Guardian, 4 July 2019 [text]

Workshop: Detention Practices, Criminalization of Migrants and Border Control in Canada (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2019) [text]

A World without Immigration Detention is Possible (The Conversation, May 2019) [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (3 May 2019)

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