Migrants

Women and Children Targeted in U.S. War on Migrants

June 1, 2018 UNAC Editor Migrants, The War at Home, US Borders, Women

Family members and neighbors in the Indigenous community of Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles, dead in Texas, grieve in her home in Los Alonzo, near San Juan Ostuncalco, department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. by Chris Fry, originally published on Workers World Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales, an unarmed woman from Guatemala, was shot in the head and killed on May 23 by Customs[…]

Concentration Camps for African Migrants Blocked from Entering Europe are Popping Up Across Libya

January 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Africa, Libya

“The Europeans want to move their southern border from the northern edge of the Mediterranean Sea to the southern rim of the Sahara Desert.” By Vijay Prashad. This article previously appeared in Alternet and Black Agenda Report Refugees do not show up in the Mediterranean Sea as if from nowhere. By the time they get into their flimsy boats on the[…]

Libya Is Home to a 21st-Century Slave Market

November 28, 2017 UNAC Editor Collapsed States

Libya Is Home to a 21st-Century Slave Market and the UN Security Council Won’t Act CNN recently aired a powerful report from Libya, where the reporters went into a house and shot footage of an auction of human beings. Yes, this is a 21st-century slave market. The journalists – Nima Elbagir, Raja Razek, Alex Platt and Bryony Jones – brought[…]