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A body is dragged out of the Mediterranean by Spanish Guardia Civil last week
THE Czech Republic will reject the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, the first-ever UN global agreement on a common approach to international migration, the Prague government said today.
Prime Minister Andrej Babis opposes the pact, which is due to be adopted at an intergovernmental conference in Marrakech, Morocco, on December 10 and 11, on the grounds that it supposedly poses a threat to his country’s national security.
Mr Babis claimed the pact was dangerous because it “defines migration as a basic human right,” though it does not. He noted that the United States, Austria and Hungary have also rejected it.
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE