And now? The images incoming from Afghanistan are dramatic: masses of people flocking to the airport trying to escape. The fear is great. Women are among the first objectives of the dramatic talibans’ extremist regime: they have already been removed from their workplaces, some schools and universities have been closed to them and in some…
Category: Migration
The EU is committed to helping Afghanistan, but not Afghans
“People should not come to Europe. People should stay in their region” “People should not come to Europe. People should stay in their region”. This sentence is probably the best summary of the current EU standing on migrants fleeing Afghanistan after the Taliban have taken over in the country. Not only for its crystal clarity…
Environmental costs of the Syrian Civil War
The devastating civil war in Syria entered its tenth year. A decade of war has caused one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world of an estimated death toll of 384,000-593,100 people as of December 2020. Besides, the displacement of approximately 12.7 million people, with nearly 6.1 million displaced internally struggling to survive. The ongoing long war has…
No New Rules – In thoughts of the people in Moria 2.0
Over the past year, there has been more talk than ever about the “crazy times” we live in, and it seems that people are longing for something simpler or more predictable. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why we spend so much time thinking and debating about new rules and laws in the almost…
Colonialism in the Immigrant Detention Center: Resistance and Hope
This article was originally published by the Jovent, the magazine of the Catalan young greens under the title: “Colonialitat als CIE: Resistència i esperança” on 18/07/2019. It has been translated by the author and slightly modified for its publication by the Ecosprinter. Samba Martine died alone at the Immigrant Detention Center (CIE in Catalan abbreviation)…
Special Online Edition: Migration, environment & the refugee crisis
The Ecosprinter Editorial Board is happy to present you a special edition about migration, environment & the refugee crisis. As the refugee crisis is still our present, and the European Union is giving a more than controversial response to it, our will was to give Young European Greens the possibility to express their opinions about it….
Green camps, Green Europe ?
Refugees coming to Europe is nothing new. However, things escalated in 2015 when according to Eurostat, 1 321 560 people entered Europe, mainly because of war in Syria. Once in Europe refugees have to wait for asylum approval that may be declined, but even if accepted, it takes time to get it. Sometimes they wait a…
Extending green energy solutions to refugee camps
Our energy system has grown to perpetuate global vast sustenance, but with this unchecked growth comes also vast injustices. The implications of a faulty energy system have to be considered from more than an economic perspective, but also in terms of moral and sustainability aspects. Climate change has reached the point where it has several…
2015-2018: How far did we get?
It was the summer of 2015. I just finished high school, manage to get into the university I wanted to study in and I was ready to work the whole summer so I can earn some extra money and experience, particularly on what does working an actual job really means. I applied for a job…
From Libya to France, borders above human rights
On November 13th 2017, CNN broadcasted a report on migrants crammed up in holding centers where they were beaten, humiliated and even sold by auction in Libya. Unfortunately, time passes by and we forget. The emotion caused by this video disappeared to the point that the conclusions of the inquiry that should have clarified human…