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Race and religious hate crimes rose 41% after EU vote
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37640982

Which countries to migrants want to move to?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/these-are-the-countries-migrants-want-to-move-to/?utm_content=buffer20484&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

European governments complicit in horrific abuse of refugees and migrants
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/12/libya-european-governments-complicit-in-horrific-abuse-of-refugees-and-migrants/

Millions could be forced to leave their homes, thanks to climate change
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/02/climate-change-will-create-worlds-biggest-refugee-crisis

Fatal journeys
https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/fatal_journeys_3_part2.pdf

Angolan immigrant death in detention
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/16/g4s-guards-found-not-guilty-manslaughter-jimmy-mubenga

FT special report on migration
https://ig.ft.com/special-reports/ten-years-out/

Maltese Bishop speaks at funeral of African migrants
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32425605

World urbanisation prospects report 2014
https://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/publications/files/wup2014-highlights.Pdf

African migrants sold as slaves in Libya
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/starved-mutilated-blackmailed-migrants-auctioned-off-slaves-by-smugglers-libya-1647428

Died trying to reach Europe
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/german-newspaper-refugees-migrants-names-published-died-europe-try-reach-33000-people-a8047756.html

Missing on the road
http://missingmigrants.icrc.org/

“The influx of more than a million migrants since mid-2015, many of them fleeing the Middle East and Africa, was largely to blame for the rise of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a Sept. 24 election.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-africa-eu-summit-merkel/merkel-end-smuggling-and-slavery-create-legal-migration-chances-for-africans-idUSKBN1DT1G8?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a1eaf5604d3017baeeab1e7&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

From absolute poverty to absolute slavery in 2017, despite the UN’s countless resolutions & declarations to end absolute poverty

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=58176#.Wh6uQkpl-Uk

It is official, UNSC declares African migrants “are exposed to appalling harm, together with migrants – including torture, rape, sexual exploitation, slavery and other forms of forced labour.”

http://www.unhcr.org/admin/hcspeeches/5a1d80e07/statement-united-nations-security-council.html

African slave markets in Libya

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/17/africa/libya-slave-auction-investigation/index.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/17/africa/libya-slave-auction-investigation/index.html

EU’s policy of helping Libya intercept migrants is ‘inhuman’, says UN

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/14/eu-libya-coastguard-detention-centres-migration-mediterranean-un-zeid-raad-al-hussein?CMP=twt_gu

The dead are someone’s husband, someone’s child, wife, sister or brother https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/02/refugee-graves-were-a-common-sight-in-libya-now-its-tunisias-turn?CMP=share_btn_tw

2017 World Population Prospects

“Of the 2.2 billion people who may be added between 2017 and 2050, 1.3 (or 59%) will be added to Africa. Beyond 20150, African will be the main contributor to global population growth..

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/WPP2017_KeyFindings.pdf

2017 UNICEF – dividend or disaster – Prioritizing investments in children to reap the demographic dividend.

https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Generation_2030_Africa_2.0.pdf

Member States declared their preparedness to take timely and decisive action, in accordance with the United Nations Charter and in cooperation with relevant regional organizations, when national authorities manifestly fail to protect their populations.”

http://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/about-responsibility-to-protect.html