Sentences with phrase «migrant boat»

Theresa May has hardened Britain's refusal to accept the mandatory European Union refugee quota system being put forward in Brussels this week in response to the Mediterranean migrant boat crisis.

Pressure has grown on governments to act after an overcrowded migrant boat sank in the Mediterranean last month, leaving more than 750 dead in a case that sparked international outrage.

Each cross was made on the island of Lampedusa from the wreckage of migrant boats washed ashore and is a sign of resurrection born in the pain and the hope of the cross.

So UK ministers are partly but directly responsible for migrant boat deaths and Cameron, as prime minister, shares that responsibility.

Even before the most recent Mediterranean migrant boat tragedies, the immigration debate has been on voters» minds, ranking third (after the NHS and the UK economy) in a list of the most important election issues according to a recent BBC poll.

In his traditional Christmas message, Pope Francis on Sunday urged Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus by thinking about the plight of today's children, bemoaning how some must escape bombs or flee in migrant boats and how others are prevented from being born at all.

In this case involving Somali and Eritrean migrants boating towards the shores of Italy from Libya, the Grand Chamber ruled unanimously that Italy had acted contrary to obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights by committing mass expulsion of aliens.

The issues at hand are so - called «pullback» practices in which the Libyan coastguard — funded, trained, and equipped by the Italian authorities under an agreement signed in February 2017 — prevents migrant boats from heading to Europe's safe shores.

Broomberg & Chanarin, documentation of migrant boats being demolished, 2017.

Previously, authorities depended on passing commercial or military vessels to spot refugee or migrant boats.

When a rescue call comes in, the ship sends out helicopters to find the migrant boat and lead the naval ship to it.

Ed Miliband will make his first and probably last foreign policy speech of the election today, laying out, among other matters, the failure of post-war planning in Libya, the subsequent collapse of the country and the ensuing tragedy of the migrant boats coming to the EU.

As it happens, the migrant boat deaths are the responsibility of David Cameron and UK government ministers, but not because of Libya.

The UKIP leader Nigel Farage says Islamist extremists could cross the Mediterranean and gain access to the UK as a result of EU policies to address the migrant boat crisis.

Search for «migrant boats» on Google and read down the list of tragedies, the lives lost in a desperate scramble for a better life.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage says Islamist extremists could cross the Mediterranean and gain access to the UK as a result of EU policies to address the migrant boat crisis.

A day later another migrant boat sank off Lampedusa, Italy — and dozens are feared dead.

As one Syrian refugee quoted in the book puts it, «Even if there was a European decision to drown the migrant boats, there will still be people going by boat because the individual considers himself dead already.

The migrant boat was intercepted by the NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station's rescue ship, and all the people onboard were evacuated.

Their project documenting the demolition of 100 migrant boats will be displayed in London in September as an Art on the Underground commission.