The 2015 Annual Trafficking Report from the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, released for Passover, reports on 28 individual victims of trafficking and slavery who were identified by the NGO, as well the resumption of trafficking of...
Continue readingThe new monitoring report from the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants assess the four detention facilities which currently hold around 5,000 asylum-seekers and migrants: Saharonim Prison, Givon Prison, the Holot Open-Detention Facility, and the Yahalom Facility located in...
Continue readingWhy I will continue to “Be Transparent”
03/02/2016I came to Israel, because as a young Jew in America, I was raised to believe that to be Jewish meant to champion a world of parity, justice, and peace; a world different from the one our...
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28/01/2016Whilst we celebrate our freedom on Pesach, please enable us to help those who are not free by making a donation. Your giving will go toward protecting the most vulnerable asylum-seekers from detention in Holot- those who...
Continue readingWhy are Eritreans fleeing their home?
07/01/2016Israel is home to approximately 34,000 asylum seekers from Eritrea, the vast majority of whom have escaped from forced labor by the country’s national army. The Israeli government claims that they are migrant workers, yet it hasn’t...
Continue readingA new report from the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), and Physicians for Human Rights exposes the depth of bureaucracy and systematic human rights violations occuring in the systems...
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