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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Europe’s Shameful Dumping
Description: Europe funds North African countries to dump refugees in the Sahara, raising serious human rights concerns.
It’s not exactly headline news that many countries are inventing all sorts of novel ways to seal their borders from migrants and refugees or, when those efforts fail, to force the uninvited and unwanted to leave. It is news, however, when Europe funds, supports, and encourages governments of countries like Tunisia, Morocco, and Mauritania literally to dump refugees in the Sahara as either punishment or powerful disincentive for trying to escape to Europe.
Of course, on paper the lucrative deals th...