http://www.tolerance.ca/Rubrique.aspx?ID=56&L=en Roberto Malini's Page Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:15:08 -0500 2012 Tolerance.ca en-ca http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=129556&L=en Rome / Stockholm - After the humanitarian campaign against the deportation of the Eritrean refugee Michael Bahre, carried out by EveryOne, ICER and other NGOs, the Swedish authorities have suspended Mr. Bahre’s forced return to Eritrea. On January 27, Michael's family and our organization received the long-awaited news: "Michael has been released and he is already en route to Stockholm, where he will join his loved ones".   Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=129333&L=en Rome / San Diego - LGBT refugees in the U.S.: Becley Aigbuza, a young Nigerian homosexual who lives in San Diego, risks being deported back to his homeland where he was raped and tortured. EveryOne Group is appealing to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and the Governor of California, Edmund Brown Jr. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=128733&L=en Arish - We have received important news from Hamdy Al-Azazy, the extraordinary Egyptian human rights defender, President of the New Generation Foundation for Human Rights, who has prevented many humanitarian tragedies in Northern Sinai. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=127898&L=en Rome - The illegal migrants' bill approved in Israel is a total violation of the Geneva Convention on refugees, as it transforms them into criminals. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=127374&L=en An appeal to the governments of the Republic of Egypt, the Palestinian territories, the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, the authorities of Israel, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Libya, Tunisia, and those of Dubai, Saudi Arabia, the European Union and countries outside Europe where there are links with the criminal trade underway in Northern Sinai. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=127286&L=en Rome - The New Year starts with a desperate plea that Everyone Group is passing on to the United Nations, the institutions of the European Union, the Egyptian authorities and the Palestinian territories (where the leaders of the trafficking in human beings and organs reside Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=127106&L=en Rome -  The High Court of Oslo has turned down the application for political asylum presented by Azad Assan Rasol, a 33 year old Iraqi gay man who lives in Norway with his partner.  Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=126674&L=en Hundreds of sub-Saharan refugees have been released by the smugglers and allowed to reach Israel following the campaign against the smuggling of migrants and human organs in the Sinai.  Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=126588&L=en Rome/Sana'a - An airline official is arbitrarily trying to deport four Eritrean refugees who were stranded in the airport for a month. This is the first time Yemen has deported asylum seekers against their will. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=126069&L=en Rome - The Italian Government today renewed - on the quiet, and without any media coverage - the infamous friendship treaty between Italy and Libya, with the same form of cooperation in combating illegal immigration that was part of the previous treaty signed by Berlusconi and Gaddafi back in 2008 . Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=125570&L=en Turin - We live in the age of digital technology and global communications, but we have not moved on from the medieval "witch hunt" mentality. A 16-year-old girl reported to the police in Turin that she had been raped on Wednesday evening.  Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=124858&L=en Rome/Arish  - EveryOne Group has received dozens of phone calls and emails over the last few days from relatives of the last prisoners in Northern Sinai. Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=124479&L=en Milan -  I am deeply attached to the State of Israel and its people. For many years I have argued that anti-Zionism has replaced anti-Semitism in Europe. Anti-Semitism is an ideology that stems from the same ethnic hatred that inspired the anti-Jewish persecutions of the past, but it is being exploited by the new anti-Semites to justify their intolerance. Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=124082&L=en 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. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=123999&L=en Rome - EveryOne Group has received news of yet another group of Eritrean prisoners being held by a gang of smugglers in the Sinai. The information comes from the brother of one of the prisoners, who tells us that the criminals are asking for a $30 000 ransom to lead each of the refugees to the border between Egypt and Israel. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=123552&L=en Rome / Arish - The UNHCR has confirmed that 611 Eritrean refugees were released without ransom by the traffickers in Northern Sinai, and are currently in Israel. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=123193&L=en Rome /Arish -  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. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=122817&L=en Rome/Arish -  EveryOne Group is continuing its investigations, humanitarian actions and relations with international institutions and NGOs in an attempt to combat the terrible phenomenon of human organ trafficking. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=122422&L=en There are currently about 300 Eritrean refugees being held in the Aswan prison in appalling sanitary conditions and subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment. Most of the refugees have come from the prison camps run by traffickers in northern Sinai, where they have been subjected to torture, beatings and rape.    Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=121932&L=en Rome / Arish - EveryOne Group and the New Generation Foundation for Human Rights has reported the brutal murder of the young Eritrean refugee Alam Haji (full name Wahra Edrissa Alam Gebrmariam), found with seven bullets in his stomach, shoulder and legs. Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=121395&L=en Rome - On the border between Egypt and Israel, Alam Haji, a young 36-year-old Eritrean woman (in the photos*), a widow and mother of three children, was shot and riddled with bullets by the Egyptian border police on Friday, October 21st, 2011, as she made a vain attempt to cross the border to qualify for international protection.  Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=121040&L=en The situation of the sub-Saharan refugees is becoming increasingly desperate: in Sudan, Egypt, Libya and all the other countries they are forced to take refuge in, in the hope of later reaching a country where they can apply for international protection or political asylum.  Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=120021&L=en Rome - According to the latest information we have received, 361 Eritrean refugees (including 94 women, 10 children, 4 teenagers and a pregnant woman) fled from the UNHCR Shegerab Camp in an attempt to reach Northern Sinai. They later fell into the hands of Bedouin traffickers.  Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=119705&L=en Lampedusa - The Canadian human rights defender Georges Alexandre, member of EveryOne Group and "Kayak for the Right to Life" recently spent six months on Lampedusa, monitoring the situation of refugees from Africa and periodically transmitting his testimony to the European Parliament and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=119223&L=en Tina Richard is a 28-year-old Nigerian woman from Kanu. She grew up in a Christian family and fled to Italy at the age of fifteen after the murder of her parents by a powerful and wealthy citizen of Kanu who wanted to marry the young girl. Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Roberto Malini's Page Roberto Malini