Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAmnesty International USA @amnesty-usa.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The approval of nearly $70 billion for ICE and CBP doubles down on fear, violence and tearing families apart and gives a nod to the Trump administration that it is free to continue this disastrous and cruel system without facing accountability. 242
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026ICE violence is happening on EU territory. Between Aug 2025 and Apr 2026, ICE passed through Polish airports and travelled through Polish territory during four operations, forcibly removing more than 50 people to Ukraine – an active war zone. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgPoland: Stop cooperating with ICE on unlawful returns of UkrainiansAmnesty International and Human Rights First today published a joint letter to Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior urging an end to the Polish government’s cooperation with the US ... 000
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAmnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Ministers from 46 @coe.int states meet in Chișinău this May to adopt a Political Declaration on the European Convention on Human Rights & migration. @amnesty.org, @icjurists.bsky.social & @fidh-official.bsky.social warn about risks this poses to hard-won human rights & legal standards in Europe.amnesty.euCouncil of Europe: Chişinău political declaration on the European Convention on Human Rights - Joint letter – European Institutions OfficeTo the attn. of:Mr Mihai Popșoi, Chairperson of the Committee of MinistersMinisters of Foreign Affairs and Ministers of Justice of Council of Europe member States Permanent Representatives to the Coun... 11514
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Five ICE flights passed through Shannon Airport between May 2025 and February 2026, taking people to South Sudan, Eswatini, Rwanda and Israel. In March 2026, another operation took Ukrainians through Poland and back to Ukraine. Ireland must refuse to facilitate #ICE www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgIreland: Stop unlawful ICE removal flights through Shannon AirportAmnesty International Ireland and Human Rights First call for end to the U.S. administration's use of Shannon Airport as a refuelling stopover for unlawful ICE removal flights. 100
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAmnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026@amnesty.org is appalled by this BBC reportage, including alarming video & photo evidence, on violent pushbacks in Greece & the reported recruitment of migrants as "mercenaries” by Greek officials to carry out these dangerous and illegal operations 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article... 21212
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 14/04/2026"And while the Trump administration builds a race-based welcome for white South Africans, it’s also building a race-based enforcement apparatus." A must read for anyone working on asylum and migration policies. theconversation.com/us-refugee-p...theconversation.comUS refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century-long effort to keep some English-speaking nations whiteAustralia, Canada and the US identified themselves as ‘white men’s countries’ in the early 20th century and coordinated immigration restrictions to keep them that way. 000
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026An ICE deportation flight on a small Journey jet just departed Phoenix, AZ for Portsmouth, NH. The flight, believed to be carrying at least some Ukrainian nationals, is scheduled to land in Poland early Tuesday morning. 02114
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Four more men removed by the United States on an ICE flight arrived in Eswatini on 11 March and are being detained in the Matsapha Correctional Complex, a maximum-security prison located some 2 kms from the country’s international airport. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgFour more men deported from the US to EswatiniBoth Eswatini and the United States must end this deeply abusive practice 001
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAmnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 09/03/2026BREAKING: @europarl.europa.eu LIBE committee greenlights punitive detention and deportation plans. Parliament’s position follows chaotic & rushed negotiations with a new text presented by @eppgroup.bsky.social just days ago that lacks adequate scrutiny, consultations or human rights assessments. 169
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 10/10/2025An excellent analysis, highly recommended 030
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Authorities in Aotearoa New Zealand are subjecting people in the Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati at risk of climate related harm to discriminatory migration policies that tear families apart and disregard children’s rights. Read the full story at this link www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgDiscriminatory migration system fails Pacific PeopleAotearoa New Zealand's discriminatory migration policies tear families apart. 070
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Chilling realpolitik: in a meeting at the White House in August "Trump agreed to take mass enforced displacement [of Palestinians from Gaza] off the agenda" of diplomatic negotiations. AS IF forced displacement were not a crime against humanity www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...theguardian.comDiplomacy’s lowest point: how the Israel-Gaza conflict was mishandledIn two years there have been many versions of a ‘day after’ plan for Gaza and many obstacles to overcome 010
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAvner Gidron @avnergidron.bsky.social · 03/10/2025@amnesty.org : Deliberately inflicting yet another devastating wave of mass displacement in Gaza amidst this suffering is not just inhumane, it is a flagrant violation of international law. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgIsrael/ OPT: Catastrophic wave of mass displacement under inhumane conditions as Israel obliterates Gaza CityAs Israel steps up its cataclysmic onslaught, it appears hell-bent on obliterating Gaza City, deliberately driving out its entire population, levelling large swathes of the city, and seizing full cont... 022
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAmnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025EU/Libya: Alarming escalation of attacks threatening the safety of humanitarian NGO rescuers and those they are rescuing in the Mediterranean🧵 178
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Amnesty International will be launching next week its first report on climate displacement. To hear about the human rights challenges faced by nationals of Tuvalu and Kiribati who move to Aotearoa New Zealand, please join our virtual press briefing on 8 / 9 October lnkd.in/dMrtcBzilnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 000
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025The US has both the international and domestic tools to address the concerns it has raised, without undermining or overturning the multilateral agreements or weakening protections for refugees. The agenda behind this proposal goes far beyond "fixing" the asylum system www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgThe Trump administration’s call to ‘reframe’ the global asylum system would harm people seeking safetyIt would have a disproportionate impact on poor and racialised asylum seekers and refugees from the Global South 010
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 25/09/2025This is the link to watch the Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau host the panel “Global Refugee Asylum System: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It” - New York City at 1:50 p.m. ET today www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfV3...youtube.comLIVE: Deputy Secretary of State Hosts Panel on Global Refugee Asylum SystemYouTube video by NTD 154
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 16/09/2025What to make of the Trump administration's plans to call for a revision of the global refugee system? A thread www.reuters.com/world/africa...reuters.comExclusive: Trump administration plans push at UN to restrict global asylum rightsPresident Donald Trump's administration plans to call for sharply narrowing the right to asylum at the United Nations later this month, documents show, as it seeks to undo the post-World War Two framework around humanitarian protection. 110
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliMark Dummett @markdummett.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Only the US outsourcing its FP to white supremacist bikers… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukAnti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sitesBBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites. 121
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 01/09/2025The best analysis on current migration policies I have read all summer, applicable not only to the UK but also to most EU countries. Cheap political manipulation produces misinformation, fueling increasing draconian and ineffective anti-migration measures www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comHere’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine MalikHe is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 010
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Is UNHCR's chief Filippo Grandi advocating for a better global protection system for refugees - or is he advocating for more money to the agency? Further proof, if any were needed, of the clash between UNHCR protection and assistance mandates 010
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 25/07/2025While the world is burning and Gaza is starving, the UK government is intent on demonizing an underclass of workers whose exploitation is created by the government's own migration and asylum policies. 010
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliUNSW Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law @kaldorcentre.bsky.social · 24/07/2025It has been described as a ‘game-changer for human rights’, but what does the #ICJ Advisory Opinion issued overnight signal for #refugees and other people displaced in the context of #climate change? @profjmcadam.bsky.social finds some answers: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces... 001
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025"That the Home Office sent a removal letter to an eleven-year-old is not a clerical error. It is the system working as designed." @nandosigona.bsky.social on the UK migration system intentionally splitting families apart theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...theconversation.comHow the UK’s immigration system splits families apart – by designBarriers to migrants’ family life are embedded in the UK’s immigration system. 22214
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliKoldo Casla @koldocasla.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Very concerning. I have an idea. Two, in fact. Give asylum seekers the right to work. And increase the restrictions to betting shops. (Or close them down, ideally.) 012
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Excellent analysis of the new Greek asylum ban by Minos Mouzourakis @rsaegean.org bit.ly/46c2TXibit.lyOP-ED: Neglect needs, manufacture crisis, rinse, repeat: The new Greek asylum ban and a textbook breach of international law | European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) 044
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAmnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · 11/07/2025🔴La Cour nationale du droit d’asile (CNDA) vient de reconnaître le statut de réfugié aux Palestinien·nes de Gaza. 12017
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 14/07/2025The global asylum system is falling apart, says @economist.com. Indeed. What should replace it? More of the same? A new system cannot be imagined without a proper analysis of the colonial roots of this one - and efforts to dismantle them. www.economist.com/briefing/202...economist.comThe global asylum system is falling apartWhat should replace it? 000
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliReuters @reuters.com · 26/06/2025Amnesty says Cambodia is enabling brutal scam industry reut.rs/4liRCbWreut.rsAmnesty says Cambodia is enabling brutal scam industryHuman rights group Amnesty International accused Cambodia’s government on Thursday of "deliberately ignoring" abuses by cybercrime gangs who have trafficked people from across the world, including children, into slavery at brutal scam compounds. 02919
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Ahead of this weekend’s military parade in Washington, planned protests across the US, and an increase in ICE raids and enforcement actions, Amnesty International answers FAQ about human rights & protests www.amnestyusa.org/blog/militar...amnestyusa.orgMilitarization and Suppression of Protests in the Age of TrumpAs a human rights organization with experience monitoring protests, Amnesty International answers FAQs regarding the militarization of protests in the U.S 001
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Hundreds of thousands of people are "slowly starving" in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMalnutrition in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp after US aid cutsA UN official warns that hundreds of thousands in the sprawling camp are 000
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances. 173144813582
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 12/06/2025"When a government acts for ulterior motives, harms civilians and leads to the killing of innocent people, the orders it issues are clearly illegal, and we must not obey them" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comIsraeli army officers refuse to serve in ‘unnecessary, eternal war’ in GazaIn letter to Netanyahu, 41 signatories say government’s orders are ‘clearly illegal’ and hostages have been given ‘death sentence’ 000
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 10/06/2025More than 300 Foreign Office staff raised concerns about potential UK "complicity" in Israel's conduct in Gaza. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCivil servants told to consider quitting if they disagree with policy over GazaMore than 300 Foreign Office staff had raised concerns about potential UK 021
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 09/06/2025The ICE raids are rooted in discrimination & racial profiling. People have the right to protest. President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to LA is not about protecting communities, it is about crushing dissent and instilling fear. www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...amnestyusa.orgDeployment of National Guard to Los Angeles in Response to ICE Raids Is DangerousPresident Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to protests against recent ICE raids is deeply alarming. 000
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025I'll say it over and over again; you can't build the mass deportation machine without first building the police state machine. 332332570
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Paraphrasing David Manne: in a system underpinned by an extreme deterrence agenda, the basic rights and dignity of people are essentially irrelevant #australia #nauru www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comScott Morrison sought advice to obstruct Nauru asylum seekers from accessing abortions, documents revealAdvocate claims Abbott government was concerned asylum seekers and refugees were using medical transfers as a back door to get into Australia 000
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 05/06/2025USA: Trump’s travel ban will harm people seeking safety, spread hate and discrimination www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgTrump’s travel ban will spread hate and harm people seeking safetyIt is discriminatory, racist, and downright cruel 022
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 05/06/2025President Trump’s new travel ban is discriminatory, racist, and downright cruel. By targeting people based on their nationality, this ban only spreads disinformation and hate. Detailed Amnesty International's reaction coming soon 000
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliEmiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Our latest on the seasonal worker visa. What jumped out at me when reading this government-commissioned report is that farm-owners will quite openly say that they prefer migrant workers to accrue huge levels of debt, because this pushes them to work harder so that they can pay it off. 1019297
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 29/05/2025‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’ What a beautiful epitaph www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...theguardian.comNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’ 000
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025"Sending people to countries to which they have no connection, no support and no prospects, or may have only briefly transited through, is not only chaotic and arbitrary, but also devastating on a human level" 000
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025But also: deportations without due process are illegal, whether the person you're deporting has regular or irregular migration status www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comAt least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, report findsCato analysis goes against Trump administration’s claim that only undocumented people were deported to Cecot 000
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 19/05/2025You must be doing something right if the Kremlin bans you #undesirable www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgRussia: Amnesty International declared “undesirable organization” amid escalating crackdown on dissentThe authorities are deeply mistaken if they believe that by labelling our organization “undesirable” we will stop our work documenting and exposing human rights violations – quite the opposite 010
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAndrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 19/05/2025This is very good - not just because it confirms what I’ve come to believe after decades in the public debate business, but yes, also that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThis article won’t change your mind. Here’s why | Sarah Stein LubranoEvidence shows that arguing our case rarely convinces others. It’s social relationships and actions that have that power, says author Sarah Stein Lubrano 41813
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliJean-Paul Marthoz @jpmarthoz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025L'article que l'UE aimerait ne pas devoir lire sur un sujet qu'elle voudrait ne pas voir www.lemonde.fr/internationa... @stephmaupas.bsky.social @hensmans.org @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.sociallemonde.frGuerre à Gaza : les alliés d’Israël face au risque de la complicitéLa répugnance des Etats occidentaux à prendre des mesures concrètes contre l’Etat hébreu, en dépit de l’ordonnance de la Cour internationale de justice reconnaissant le risque de génocide à Gaza, les ... 025
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAvner Gidron @avnergidron.bsky.social · 19/05/2025@amnesty.org : #Yemen - US air strike that has left dozens of migrants dead must be investigated www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...amnesty.orgYemen: US air strike that has left dozens of migrants dead must be investigatedA US air strike on a migrant detention centre in Sa’ada, north-western Yemen on 28 April killed and injured dozens of migrants and must be investigated as a violation of international humanitarian law... 013
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 14/05/2025When abusive migration policies and visa systems reflect and amplify racism and discrimination: new @amnesty.org report on the exploitation and racism against Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia 000
Reposted by Francesca PizzutelliAmnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025While @ec.europa.eu defends declaring Tunisia a safe country to return Tunisians to, @amnesty.org’s @oliviasundberg.bsky.social warns that the assessment “absolutely downplays the human rights backsliding that we've seen in the last few years”. Via @euobserver.com 👇euobserver.comEU commission defends declaring Tunisia as 'safe'The European Commission continues to defend Tunisia as 'safe' for prospective Tunisians wanting international protection in Europe. 11313
Francesca Pizzutelli @therightsangle.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Who is profiting from the fabricated migration "crises" in the West? Rwanda-Israel deal: secret and stopped in court Rwanda-UK: stopped in court and abandoned Rwanda-Denmark: discussed but never concluded Rwanda-US: currently being negotiated www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...theguardian.comRwandan talks with US over deported migrants are chance to expand its influenceAfrican country looks to position itself as a useful option for countries’ anti-migration policies 021