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

Sunday 14th Jun 2020

Europe's maritime borders are once again the scene of multiple tragedies this weekend

EUROPE’S Mediterranean and Aegean borders were once again the scene of multiple tragedies and ignored emergencies at the weekend.

Thursday 11th Jun 2020

Trump threatens to ‘take back’ control of Seattle's ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened to “take back” Seattle from “domestic terrorists” who have established a police-free zone, if the mayor an

Thursday 11th Jun 2020

Greece urged to investigate refugee pushbacks to Turkey

IOM ‘deeply concerned’ by reports of Greek police, border guards and coastguards using violence to expel migrants

Tuesday 09th Jun 2020

Refugee charities condemn Germany's new regulations aimed at halting NGO humanitarian ships

EUROPEAN states’ crackdown on NGO refugee rescue ships operating in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas escalated today when three German charities w

Tuesday 09th Jun 2020

‘Europe will continue with its border control policies, and we will continue fighting for human rights’

INIGO MIJANGOS tells Ben Cowles how his charity's ship, the Aita Mari, was seized in Italy after saving the lives of 47 refugees

Sunday 07th Jun 2020

Relatives of the drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi urge Italy to release NGO rescue ships

Civil rescue ships, the Alan Kurdi and Aita Mari which saved close to 200 lives at Easter, have been detained in Sicily for over a month

Friday 05th Jun 2020

Masked men attack migrant boat off Greek coast

Refugee rights activists warn of increase of illegal ‘pushbacks’ from Greece to Turkey

Wednesday 03rd Jun 2020

‘It is absolutely tragic that people have died on Europe’s doorsteps’

IOM spokeswoman SAFA MSEHLI speaks Ben Cowles following a week of refugee tragedies in Libya and the Mediterranean and the importance of NGO rescuers

Friday 29th May 2020

Further evidence Libya is unsafe for refugees after 30 killed in unofficial migrant detention centre

REFUGEE rights and rescue organisations have reacted with horror to reports that 30 people were shot dead in one of Libya’s unofficial migrant dete

Monday 25th May 2020

Libyan coastguard intercepts hundreds of refugees fleeing the country

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

Europe's maritime borders are once again the scene of multiple tragedies this weekend

EUROPE’S Mediterranean and Aegean borders were once again the scene of multiple tragedies and ignored emergencies at the weekend.

Trump threatens to ‘take back’ control of Seattle's ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened to “take back” Seattle from “domestic terrorists” who have established a police-free zone, if the mayor an

Greece urged to investigate refugee pushbacks to Turkey

IOM ‘deeply concerned’ by reports of Greek police, border guards and coastguards using violence to expel migrants

Refugee charities condemn Germany's new regulations aimed at halting NGO humanitarian ships

EUROPEAN states’ crackdown on NGO refugee rescue ships operating in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas escalated today when three German charities w

‘Europe will continue with its border control policies, and we will continue fighting for human rights’

INIGO MIJANGOS tells Ben Cowles how his charity's ship, the Aita Mari, was seized in Italy after saving the lives of 47 refugees

Relatives of the drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi urge Italy to release NGO rescue ships

Civil rescue ships, the Alan Kurdi and Aita Mari which saved close to 200 lives at Easter, have been detained in Sicily for over a month

Masked men attack migrant boat off Greek coast

Refugee rights activists warn of increase of illegal ‘pushbacks’ from Greece to Turkey

‘It is absolutely tragic that people have died on Europe’s doorsteps’

IOM spokeswoman SAFA MSEHLI speaks Ben Cowles following a week of refugee tragedies in Libya and the Mediterranean and the importance of NGO rescuers

Further evidence Libya is unsafe for refugees after 30 killed in unofficial migrant detention centre

REFUGEE rights and rescue organisations have reacted with horror to reports that 30 people were shot dead in one of Libya’s unofficial migrant dete

Libyan coastguard intercepts hundreds of refugees fleeing the country

International Organisation for Migration says 317 people have been locked away in al-Masser detention centre

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