Articles by Ben Cowles

Punk or not, don't miss this

Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month

World | Monday 17th Mar 2025

Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’

Features | Thursday 13th Mar 2025

Make anti-racism cool again

World | Wednesday 29th Jan 2025

Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say

Monday 21st Dec 2020

Ocean Viking rescue ship released after five-month detention

AN NGO refugee rescue ship was released from its five-month detention in Italy today.

Saturday 19th Dec 2020

‘There were too many people on the rubber boat, and we were too few’

Open Arms search-and-rescue Coordinator DAVID LLADO tells the Star's Ben Cowles about the moment 118 refugees fell into sea when their boat split in half and how his team rescued them

Friday 18th Dec 2020

Nothing to celebrate this International Migrants Day, refugee organisations say

Alarm Phone asks why authorities still have no answer to what happened to 91 people who went missing in the Mediterranean in February

Monday 14th Dec 2020

Saudi human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul's on trial for ‘terrorism’

THE second hearing into the trial of Saudi human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul took place in a special terrorism court in the autocratic king

Monday 14th Dec 2020

Refugees stuck in Moria 2 camp eke out their lives in floods and sludge

PEOPLE stuck inside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos are facing a deluge of water and mud.

Friday 11th Dec 2020

Report EU border charade puts immigrant lives in danger

Why did Frontex help an NGO ship rescue refugees in the Mediterranean, asks BEN COWLES

Friday 27th Nov 2020

Progressives around the world demand Bezos pay his debts to workers and the planet

Campaigners demand Amazon improve its workers' pay and conditions, recognise workers' rights to organise, stop harming the environment, and stop supporting cops and immigration authorities

Friday 27th Nov 2020

US Congresswoman Gabbard calls for Assange and Snowden to be given presidential pardon

FORMER US presidential candidate and left-leaning congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has reiterated her calls to outgoing US President Donald Trump to par

Thursday 26th Nov 2020

132 deaths in reported the central Mediterranean since November 1

AT LEAST 132 deaths have been reported in the central Mediterranean to a refuge distress hotline this month.

Friday 13th Nov 2020

Four refugee shipwrecks this week push Mediterranean death toll over 900, IOM warns

Articles by Ben Cowles

Punk or not, don't miss this

Ben Cowles speaks with IAN ‘TREE’ ROBINSON and ANDY DAVIES, two of the string pullers behind the Manchester Punk Festival, ahead of its 10th year show later this month

Unicef: A million children in Gaza ‘are living without the very basics they need to survive’

Make anti-racism cool again

Two lives could have been saved had Malta launched rescue sooner, activists say

Ocean Viking rescue ship released after five-month detention

AN NGO refugee rescue ship was released from its five-month detention in Italy today.

‘There were too many people on the rubber boat, and we were too few’

Open Arms search-and-rescue Coordinator DAVID LLADO tells the Star's Ben Cowles about the moment 118 refugees fell into sea when their boat split in half and how his team rescued them

Nothing to celebrate this International Migrants Day, refugee organisations say

Alarm Phone asks why authorities still have no answer to what happened to 91 people who went missing in the Mediterranean in February

Saudi human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul's on trial for ‘terrorism’

THE second hearing into the trial of Saudi human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul took place in a special terrorism court in the autocratic king

Refugees stuck in Moria 2 camp eke out their lives in floods and sludge

PEOPLE stuck inside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos are facing a deluge of water and mud.

Report EU border charade puts immigrant lives in danger

Why did Frontex help an NGO ship rescue refugees in the Mediterranean, asks BEN COWLES

Progressives around the world demand Bezos pay his debts to workers and the planet

Campaigners demand Amazon improve its workers' pay and conditions, recognise workers' rights to organise, stop harming the environment, and stop supporting cops and immigration authorities

US Congresswoman Gabbard calls for Assange and Snowden to be given presidential pardon

FORMER US presidential candidate and left-leaning congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has reiterated her calls to outgoing US President Donald Trump to par

132 deaths in reported the central Mediterranean since November 1

AT LEAST 132 deaths have been reported in the central Mediterranean to a refuge distress hotline this month.

Four refugee shipwrecks this week push Mediterranean death toll over 900, IOM warns

The Open Arms NGO rescue ship, now carrying 259 refugees, ordered to sail to Sicily

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