For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Sending refugees back to hell with EU support
Piecing together the story from several documents provided by the EU following months of FOI requests, BEN COWLES exposes how the bloc’s supposed training of the Libyan coastguard has only made things worse
A photograph taken from the air of a sinking refugee dinghy in the central Mediterranean
[Ruben Neugebauer/Sea Watch] 
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Mental health fears push Peers to change law on IPP torture sentences, reports Charley Allan
The ongoing floods in Pakistan could have been largely prevented, writes ABDUL RAHMAN
By escalating deportations and cutting remittances, Trump threatens to destabilise Latin American economies and exacerbate humanitarian crises. Ironically, this might trigger a new wave of migration, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER HARRIS
THE International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has estimated that 347 people have died trying to reach Europe while crossing the Mediterranean this year.
The central Mediterranean route (which stretches from war-torn Libya to Malta and the Italian islands of Lampedusa and Sicily) has been particularly deadly in 2020 so far. According to IOM Libya’s latest update 33 people have died on the route this year and 135 people are still missing.
Perhaps more concerning is the uncertain fate of at least 4,500 people the IOM says were pulled back from the central Mediterranean to Libya in the past six months — mostly by the country’s coastguard.
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