Deputy Director and Head of the Refugees and Migrants' Rights Team at Amnesty International. Human rights, people on the move, feminism. Personal posts.
Francesca Pizzutelli
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"And while the Trump administration builds a race-based welcome for white South Africans, itās also building a race-based enforcement apparatus."
A must read for anyone working on asylum and migration policies.
theconversation.com/us-refugee-p...
Australia, Canada and the US identified themselves as āwhite menās countriesā in the early 20th century and coordinated immigration restrictions to keep them that way.
An ICE deportation flight on a small Journey jet just departed Phoenix, AZ for Portsmouth, NH. The flight, believed to be carrying at least some Ukrainian nationals, is scheduled to land in Poland early Tuesday morning.
Francesca Pizzutelli
An excellent analysis, highly recommended
Five ICE flights passed through Shannon Airport between May 2025 and February 2026, taking people to South Sudan, Eswatini, Rwanda and Israel. In March 2026, another operation took Ukrainians through Poland and back to Ukraine. Ireland must refuse to facilitate #ICE
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
ICE violence is happening on EU territory. Between Aug 2025 and Apr 2026, ICE passed through Polish airports and travelled through Polish territory during four operations, forcibly removing more than 50 people to Ukraine ā an active war zone. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Four more men removed by the United States on an ICE flight arrived in Eswatini on 11 March and are being detained in the Matsapha Correctional Complex, a maximum-security prison located some 2 kms from the countryās international airport.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
ICE Flight Monitor
Francesca Pizzutelli
Amnesty International Ireland and Human Rights First call for end to the U.S. administration's use of Shannon Airport as a refuelling stopover for unlawful ICE removal flights.
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Amnesty International and Human Rights First today published aĀ joint letterĀ to Polandās Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior urging an end to the Polish governmentās cooperation with the US ...
@amnesty.org is appalled by this BBC reportage, including alarming video & photo evidence, on violent pushbacks in Greece & the reported recruitment of migrants as "mercenariesā by Greek officials to carry out these dangerous and illegal operations š§µ
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Francesca Pizzutelli
BREAKING: @europarl.europa.eu LIBE committee
greenlights punitive detention and deportation plans.
Parliamentās position follows chaotic & rushed negotiations with a new text presented by @eppgroup.bsky.social just days ago that lacks adequate scrutiny, consultations or human rights assessments.
Ministers from 46 @coe.int states meet in ChiČinÄu this May to adopt a Political Declaration on the European Convention on Human Rights & migration.
@amnesty.org, @icjurists.bsky.social & @fidh-official.bsky.social warn about risks this poses to hard-won human rights & legal standards in Europe.
