Francesca Pizzutelli
@therightsangle.bsky.social
Deputy Director and Head of the Refugees and Migrants' Rights Team at Amnesty International. Human rights, people on the move, feminism. Personal posts.
An excellent analysis, highly recommended
Economic shocks, social strains, and rising inequality have unsettled democracies everywhere. In this atmosphere of fear and anger, immigration has been cast as the culprit, offering populists a simple story for a complex age.
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The perfect storm: Why immigration has become the scapegoat for our age of crisis - 360
Economic shocks, social strains, and rising inequality have unsettled democracies everywhere. In this atmosphere of fear and anger, immigration has been cast as the culprit, offering populists a simpl...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
An excellent analysis, highly recommended
Authorities in Aotearoa New Zealand are subjecting people in the Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati at risk of climate related harm to discriminatory migration policies that tear families apart and disregard children’s rights. Read the full story at this link
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Discriminatory migration system fails Pacific People
Aotearoa New Zealand's discriminatory migration policies tear families apart.
www.amnesty.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Authorities in Aotearoa New Zealand are subjecting people in the Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati at risk of climate related harm to discriminatory migration policies that tear families apart and disregard children’s rights. Read the full story at this link
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Chilling realpolitik: in a meeting at the White House in August "Trump agreed to take mass enforced displacement [of Palestinians from Gaza] off the agenda" of diplomatic negotiations. AS IF forced displacement were not a crime against humanity
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Diplomacy’s lowest point: how the Israel-Gaza conflict was mishandled
In two years there have been many versions of a ‘day after’ plan for Gaza and many obstacles to overcome
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Chilling realpolitik: in a meeting at the White House in August "Trump agreed to take mass enforced displacement [of Palestinians from Gaza] off the agenda" of diplomatic negotiations. AS IF forced displacement were not a crime against humanity
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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@amnesty.org : Deliberately inflicting yet another devastating wave of mass displacement in Gaza amidst this suffering is not just inhumane, it is a flagrant violation of international law. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Israel/ OPT: Catastrophic wave of mass displacement under inhumane conditions as Israel obliterates Gaza City
As Israel steps up its cataclysmic onslaught, it appears hell-bent on obliterating Gaza City, deliberately driving out its entire population, levelling large swathes of the city, and seizing full cont...
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October 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
@amnesty.org : Deliberately inflicting yet another devastating wave of mass displacement in Gaza amidst this suffering is not just inhumane, it is a flagrant violation of international law. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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EU/Libya: Alarming escalation of attacks threatening the safety of humanitarian NGO rescuers and those they are rescuing in the Mediterranean🧵
October 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
EU/Libya: Alarming escalation of attacks threatening the safety of humanitarian NGO rescuers and those they are rescuing in the Mediterranean🧵
Amnesty International will be launching next week its first report on climate displacement. To hear about the human rights challenges faced by nationals of Tuvalu and Kiribati who move to Aotearoa New Zealand, please join our virtual press briefing on 8 / 9 October
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Amnesty International will be launching next week its first report on climate displacement. To hear about the human rights challenges faced by nationals of Tuvalu and Kiribati who move to Aotearoa New Zealand, please join our virtual press briefing on 8 / 9 October
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The US has both the international and domestic tools to address the concerns it has raised, without undermining or overturning the multilateral agreements or weakening protections for refugees. The agenda behind this proposal goes far beyond "fixing" the asylum system
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
The Trump administration’s call to ‘reframe’ the global asylum system would harm people seeking safety
It would have a disproportionate impact on poor and racialised asylum seekers and refugees from the Global South
www.amnesty.org
September 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The US has both the international and domestic tools to address the concerns it has raised, without undermining or overturning the multilateral agreements or weakening protections for refugees. The agenda behind this proposal goes far beyond "fixing" the asylum system
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
This is the link to watch the Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau host the panel “Global Refugee Asylum System: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It” - New York City at 1:50 p.m. ET today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfV3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfV3...
LIVE: Deputy Secretary of State Hosts Panel on Global Refugee Asylum System
YouTube video by NTD
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September 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is the link to watch the Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau host the panel “Global Refugee Asylum System: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It” - New York City at 1:50 p.m. ET today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfV3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfV3...
What to make of the Trump administration's plans to call for a revision of the global refugee system? A thread
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Exclusive: Trump administration plans push at UN to restrict global asylum rights
President Donald Trump's administration plans to call for sharply narrowing the right to asylum at the United Nations later this month, documents show, as it seeks to undo the post-World War Two framework around humanitarian protection.
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September 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
What to make of the Trump administration's plans to call for a revision of the global refugee system? A thread
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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The best analysis on current migration policies I have read all summer, applicable not only to the UK but also to most EU countries. Cheap political manipulation produces misinformation, fueling increasing draconian and ineffective anti-migration measures
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik
He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The best analysis on current migration policies I have read all summer, applicable not only to the UK but also to most EU countries. Cheap political manipulation produces misinformation, fueling increasing draconian and ineffective anti-migration measures
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is UNHCR's chief Filippo Grandi advocating for a better global protection system for refugees - or is he advocating for more money to the agency? Further proof, if any were needed, of the clash between UNHCR protection and assistance mandates
Budget cuts to the United Nations’ refugee agency are driving more migrants to Europe, the organization’s chief Filippo Grandi has said.
UN refugee chief says budget cuts propel migrants to Europe
Boosting aid to Africa would “solve a lot” of problems, says High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Is UNHCR's chief Filippo Grandi advocating for a better global protection system for refugees - or is he advocating for more money to the agency? Further proof, if any were needed, of the clash between UNHCR protection and assistance mandates
While the world is burning and Gaza is starving, the UK government is intent on demonizing an underclass of workers whose exploitation is created by the government's own migration and asylum policies.
July 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
While the world is burning and Gaza is starving, the UK government is intent on demonizing an underclass of workers whose exploitation is created by the government's own migration and asylum policies.
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It has been described as a ‘game-changer for human rights’, but what does the #ICJ Advisory Opinion issued overnight signal for #refugees and other people displaced in the context of #climate change? @profjmcadam.bsky.social finds some answers: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
July 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
It has been described as a ‘game-changer for human rights’, but what does the #ICJ Advisory Opinion issued overnight signal for #refugees and other people displaced in the context of #climate change? @profjmcadam.bsky.social finds some answers: researchinginternaldisplacement.org/short_pieces...
"That the Home Office sent a removal letter to an eleven-year-old is not a clerical error. It is the system working as designed." @nandosigona.bsky.social on the UK migration system intentionally splitting families apart
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How the UK’s immigration system splits families apart – by design
Barriers to migrants’ family life are embedded in the UK’s immigration system.
theconversation.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"That the Home Office sent a removal letter to an eleven-year-old is not a clerical error. It is the system working as designed." @nandosigona.bsky.social on the UK migration system intentionally splitting families apart
theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
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Very concerning.
I have an idea.
Two, in fact.
Give asylum seekers the right to work.
And increase the restrictions to betting shops. (Or close them down, ideally.)
I have an idea.
Two, in fact.
Give asylum seekers the right to work.
And increase the restrictions to betting shops. (Or close them down, ideally.)
The Home Office has launched an investigation after PolHome found that asylum seekers nationwide have been using taxpayer-funded payment cards for gambling
"The Home Office has begun an investigation into the use of Aspen cards"
The cards are intended for essentials like food, toiletries & clothes
"The Home Office has begun an investigation into the use of Aspen cards"
The cards are intended for essentials like food, toiletries & clothes
Asylum Seekers Using Taxpayer-Funded Payment Cards To Gamble
The Home Office has launched an investigation after PoliticsHome revealed that asylum seekers across the UK have been using taxpayer-funded payment...
www.politicshome.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Very concerning.
I have an idea.
Two, in fact.
Give asylum seekers the right to work.
And increase the restrictions to betting shops. (Or close them down, ideally.)
I have an idea.
Two, in fact.
Give asylum seekers the right to work.
And increase the restrictions to betting shops. (Or close them down, ideally.)
Excellent analysis of the new Greek asylum ban by Minos Mouzourakis @rsaegean.org bit.ly/46c2TXi
OP-ED: Neglect needs, manufacture crisis, rinse, repeat: The new Greek asylum ban and a textbook breach of international law | European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
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July 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Excellent analysis of the new Greek asylum ban by Minos Mouzourakis @rsaegean.org bit.ly/46c2TXi
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🔴La Cour nationale du droit d’asile (CNDA) vient de reconnaître le statut de réfugié aux Palestinien·nes de Gaza.
July 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🔴La Cour nationale du droit d’asile (CNDA) vient de reconnaître le statut de réfugié aux Palestinien·nes de Gaza.
The global asylum system is falling apart, says @economist.com. Indeed. What should replace it? More of the same? A new system cannot be imagined without a proper analysis of the colonial roots of this one - and efforts to dismantle them.
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
The global asylum system is falling apart
What should replace it?
www.economist.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The global asylum system is falling apart, says @economist.com. Indeed. What should replace it? More of the same? A new system cannot be imagined without a proper analysis of the colonial roots of this one - and efforts to dismantle them.
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
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Amnesty says Cambodia is enabling brutal scam industry reut.rs/4liRCbW
Amnesty says Cambodia is enabling brutal scam industry
Human rights group Amnesty International accused Cambodia’s government on Thursday of "deliberately ignoring" abuses by cybercrime gangs who have trafficked people from across the world, including children, into slavery at brutal scam compounds.
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June 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Amnesty says Cambodia is enabling brutal scam industry reut.rs/4liRCbW
Ahead of this weekend’s military parade in Washington, planned protests across the US, and an increase in ICE raids and enforcement actions, Amnesty International answers FAQ about human rights & protests www.amnestyusa.org/blog/militar...
Militarization and Suppression of Protests in the Age of Trump
As a human rights organization with experience monitoring protests, Amnesty International answers FAQs regarding the militarization of protests in the U.S
www.amnestyusa.org
June 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Ahead of this weekend’s military parade in Washington, planned protests across the US, and an increase in ICE raids and enforcement actions, Amnesty International answers FAQ about human rights & protests www.amnestyusa.org/blog/militar...
Hundreds of thousands of people are "slowly starving" in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Malnutrition in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp after US aid cuts
A UN official warns that hundreds of thousands in the sprawling camp are
www.bbc.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Hundreds of thousands of people are "slowly starving" in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.
June 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.
"When a government acts for ulterior motives, harms civilians and leads to the killing of innocent people, the orders it issues are clearly illegal, and we must not obey them"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israeli army officers refuse to serve in ‘unnecessary, eternal war’ in Gaza
In letter to Netanyahu, 41 signatories say government’s orders are ‘clearly illegal’ and hostages have been given ‘death sentence’
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
"When a government acts for ulterior motives, harms civilians and leads to the killing of innocent people, the orders it issues are clearly illegal, and we must not obey them"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
More than 300 Foreign Office staff raised concerns about potential UK "complicity" in Israel's conduct in Gaza.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Civil servants told to consider quitting if they disagree with policy over Gaza
More than 300 Foreign Office staff had raised concerns about potential UK
www.bbc.co.uk
June 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
More than 300 Foreign Office staff raised concerns about potential UK "complicity" in Israel's conduct in Gaza.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...