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FATMA CHARFI | 1955 - 2018

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FATMA CHARFI | THE DEATH of HUMANITY (1955 – 2018) LONG LIVE FATMA CHARFI FATMA CHARFI | HUMANITARIAN FATMA CHARFI | INTERNATIONAL ARTIST The Art of Fatma Charfi is one that was born out of intense sorrow. The origins of her works where instigated by the events that unfolded in front of her eyes, at the time of the first Gulf War, back in 1991. This was a time of great sadness throughout the entire Arabic world. Sitting in her apartment in Bern, Switzerland, she, like so many others, watched the brutal scenes of the bombing on the city of Baghdad. When we met, back in 2006, she recalled that grief-stricken evening with such clarity and described how she watched with tears streaming down her cheeks, the inconsolable horrors of the mass murders inflicted on the innocent people of Iraq. Numb and in shock she stretched out her hand, blindly fumbling to find the hankies in her box of man-sized tissues on her glass coffee table, in the middle of the room. On...
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Immigration Report Malta

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Image by Irish Defence Forces Immigration Report from Malta by Joe Pollitt Migrants in Malta are seemingly, the property of Malta, fingerprinted on arrival, treated as criminals and then processed like cattle. After a year and half in the Detention Centres they enter a country that has little, if any, prospects for them. If the migrant tries to leave for other European countries they are deported and sent back. Their lives are no more valuable than slaves and their rights of movement denied. They have no chance to live in more respectable European countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Italy and Germany. From the minute they leave on boats from Tripoli heading for Malta the migrant is robbed daily. The USA containers full of clothes, shoes, suits is taken by the guards in the Detention Centres, who believe that this is just one of the perks of the job. After risking life and limb to enter Europe they find Malta equally, if not more, corrupt than the countries they have fled ...
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African Migration to Europe

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African migrants: What really drives them to Europe? We head to a Libyan detention centre to meet African migrants who risk everything in search of a better life. 06 Jun 2015 10:18 GMT Thousands of Africans put their lives at risk as they go on a boat journey in search of what they think would be a better and easier living. It is a journey that begins with hope, but often ends in despair. Most of them depart from Libya late at night, travelling across the Mediterranean Sea in broad streams with Italy as their central destination. We all travel to get to plant a new life. We Africans we believe that if you go to Europe your life is good. Patrick Jabbi, 27, a Congolese migrant Last year, more than 170,000 migrants arrived there, representing the largest influx of people into one country in European Union history. Most of the migrants are Eritrean and Syrian but numerous Africans from sub-Saharan regions also use this route. This year almost 2,000 peop...
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