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Payments to smugglers have exceeded $16 billion in the last 15 years…
Refugees pose an overwhelming humanitarian crisis for Europe. As hundreds of thousands seek safety, they are paying immense sums of money to smugglers. Europe’s crisis is not only an urgent humanitarian disaster, but it has also increased the incredibly lucrative industry of human trafficking.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has decided that the sinking of a migrant vessel in November 2017, which claimed 20 lives and led survivors into Libya’s infamous detention camps, was deemed outside Italy’s legal control. The ruling effectively absolves Italy of responsibility for migrant deaths in the Mediterranean and detention abuses in Libya. This signals a worrying legal precedent that could embolden further evasion of accountability in
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