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 02nd Feb 2020

EU deal with Libyan Coastguard condemned on 3rd anniversary of the Malta Declaration

Around 40,000 people have been intercepted at sea and brought back to war-torn Libya since the 2017 agreement

Wednesday 29th Jan 2020

Turkish naval ship aids pushback of refugees to Libya

Meanwhile NGOs remain the only ships in the Mediterranean to rescue people fleeing the war zone

Tuesday 28th Jan 2020

European authorities ‘entirely absent’ as 930 refugees try to cross the Mediterranean at the weekend

Approximately 650 people were picked up by the civil rescue fleet between Friday January 24 and Monday 27

Friday 17th Jan 2020

Italy's highest court confirms NGO captain should not have been arrested for saving refugee lives

ITALY’S highest court confirmed today that a former captain of an NGO refugee-rescue ship should never have been arrested.

Thursday 16th Jan 2020

Almost 1,000 refugees pushed back to war-torn Libya in the first two weeks of 2020

EU slammed for funding the Libyan Coastguard while leaving migrants to drown in the Mediterranean

Tuesday 14th Jan 2020

‘We millennials are the beholders of the apocalypse’

Ben Cowles talks to director SAUL ALVIDREZ about his upcoming film Chomsky & Mujica, a documentary on the first meeting of the two leftist luminaries

Sunday 12th Jan 2020

Eight refugee children among dozens drowned in Greek waters

Meanwhile, the Maltese navy watches on as refugees struggle to stay afloat off the island nation's coast

Thursday 09th Jan 2020

Frontex blasted for boasting of decline of migrants into Europe as rescuers witness refugees pushed back to war-torn Libya

AN NGO migrant rescue organisation said today that it has witnessed refugees in distress at sea being pushed back to Libya, a day after the Europea

Tuesday 07th Jan 2020

Captain of NGO migrant rescue ship wins legal appeal against Malta

THE captain of an NGO migrant rescue ship was vindicated today after a Maltese court overturned the state’s conviction against him for entering the

Thursday 02nd Jan 2020

German Protestant Church raising funds to join civil refugee rescue fleet in the Mediterranean

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

EU deal with Libyan Coastguard condemned on 3rd anniversary of the Malta Declaration

Around 40,000 people have been intercepted at sea and brought back to war-torn Libya since the 2017 agreement

Turkish naval ship aids pushback of refugees to Libya

Meanwhile NGOs remain the only ships in the Mediterranean to rescue people fleeing the war zone

European authorities ‘entirely absent’ as 930 refugees try to cross the Mediterranean at the weekend

Approximately 650 people were picked up by the civil rescue fleet between Friday January 24 and Monday 27

Italy's highest court confirms NGO captain should not have been arrested for saving refugee lives

ITALY’S highest court confirmed today that a former captain of an NGO refugee-rescue ship should never have been arrested.

Almost 1,000 refugees pushed back to war-torn Libya in the first two weeks of 2020

EU slammed for funding the Libyan Coastguard while leaving migrants to drown in the Mediterranean

‘We millennials are the beholders of the apocalypse’

Ben Cowles talks to director SAUL ALVIDREZ about his upcoming film Chomsky & Mujica, a documentary on the first meeting of the two leftist luminaries

Eight refugee children among dozens drowned in Greek waters

Meanwhile, the Maltese navy watches on as refugees struggle to stay afloat off the island nation's coast

Frontex blasted for boasting of decline of migrants into Europe as rescuers witness refugees pushed back to war-torn Libya

AN NGO migrant rescue organisation said today that it has witnessed refugees in distress at sea being pushed back to Libya, a day after the Europea

Captain of NGO migrant rescue ship wins legal appeal against Malta

THE captain of an NGO migrant rescue ship was vindicated today after a Maltese court overturned the state’s conviction against him for entering the

German Protestant Church raising funds to join civil refugee rescue fleet in the Mediterranean

AN INITIATIVE by the Protestant Church in Germany to finance and launch a refugee-rescue ship in the Mediterranean has been supported by 150 backer

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