European Court of Human Rights blasts Malta’s detention regime, again
The European Court of Human Rights had extremely harsh
Noel Grima
October 22, 2024 18:07
Population increased by more than 40,000 in two years, St Paul’s Bay tops list
New NSO statistics show that St Paul’s Bay, once
The Shift Team
October 10, 2024 11:04
Free El Hiblu 3 campaign’s hopes now lie with the court’s ‘reasonableness’.
The Free El Hiblu 3 campaign hopes that it
Elizabeth De Gaetano
March 13, 2024 14:00
Opinion: Leave her in peace
Should a three-year-old girl severely traumatised by war be
Kevin Cassar
February 24, 2024 12:13
Opinion: True populism
“The PN is a populist party focused only on
Kevin Cassar
February 16, 2024 10:33
Muscat defends disastrous foreign labour policies to international media
Disgraced former prime minister Joseph Muscat has defended his
Alice Taylor
January 17, 2024 16:33
Malta’s legal failures in migrant rescue led to deaths, disappearances in 2022, 2023
Humanitarian NGO Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF) documented numerous cases
Alice Taylor
December 3, 2023 11:50
Migration, enlargement, women high on EC agenda, but democracy is elephant in the room
In her annual State of the European Union (SOTEU)
Alice Taylor
September 13, 2023 16:33
Activists call for AG to dimiss ‘deeply unjust’ El Hiblu 3 prosecution
The Humanitarian activist organisation, El Hiblu 3 Freedom Commission
Sean Montebello
September 2, 2023 16:39
Over 300 dead in last 10 days as Malta continues its ‘non-response tactics’
More than 300 people have died in the central
Sean Montebello
April 29, 2023 16:35
Over 29,000 deaths during migration journeys to Europe since 2014 – IOM
There have been more than 3,400 deaths on migration
Elizabeth De Gaetano
November 1, 2022 16:02
Humanitarian NGOs slam Malta over migrant push back to Egypt
Twenty-three people were sent to Egypt on the instructions
October 19, 2022 18:30
Blundering Byron
The day after Malta police went on a rampage,
Kevin Cassar
October 2, 2022 11:08
Human rights lawyers flag bipartisan statements on deportations as attempts to ‘gain populist approval’
Human rights advocacy group aditus foundation was “taken aback”
Julian Delia
August 25, 2022 10:37
Sea rescue group claims Frontex complicit in violating human rights in Malta search and rescue zone operation
Frontex, the border agency of the European Union, is
The Shift Team
April 28, 2022 17:05
El Hiblu 3: ‘It takes courage to stand up for human rights’
Yet another witness testifying in the three-year long case
Julian Delia
April 12, 2022 16:16
Beyond the euphoria – Noel Grima
After the euphoria and the back-slapping, maybe it is
Noel Grima
April 4, 2022 18:17
The big manifesto crunch: what are parties in opposition proposing?
In the interest of preserving The Shift’s role as
Julian Delia
March 8, 2022 15:25
Disgraced former prisons director to receive €103,000 annual salary for new role
Retired Colonel Alex Dalli, forced out of his job
Caroline Muscat
February 12, 2022 11:29
A Maltese Christmas carol
Last night, many of us celebrated Christmas Eve with
Blanche Gatt
December 25, 2021 05:40
EU ‘complicit’ in secretive Libyan prison and shadow immigration systems
An investigation by The New Yorker has shone a light
Alice Taylor
December 3, 2021 16:14
Malta’s prison-to-prison pipeline: a community living in terror
One of the leaders of Malta’s community for Sudanese
Julian Delia
August 28, 2021 12:37
Court’s ‘chief security officer’ harasses journalist, demands phone to delete photos
The Shift journalist Julian Delia was harassed outside the
The Shift Team
August 5, 2021 15:42
UN: pushbacks violate human rights, are incompatible with state obligations
Migrant pushbacks result in human rights violations and are
Elizabeth De Gaetano
June 29, 2021 13:54
‘Political will to enact change has never been more urgent’
More than 500 lives have been lost so far
Alice Taylor
April 29, 2021 07:39
Italy: Journalists’ phones wiretapped by prosecutors
A number of Italian journalists had their phones wiretapped
April 7, 2021 09:41
Migration, rule of law and equality among European Commission priorities
On 16 September, President of the European Commission Ursula
Elizabeth De Gaetano
September 18, 2020 07:25
Malta risks losing €5 million EU funds for ‘unbuilt’ migrant centre, PM to detain migrants offshore
The government’s delay in building a €7 million migrant
Joanna Demarco
September 4, 2020 09:23
Neville Gafa’ calls out Foreign Minister’s post on Libya
A post by Foreign Affairs Minister Evarist Bartolo thanking
June 25, 2020 12:01
Prime Minister given evidence of inquiry 5 days before he was questioned
One of the things that emerge from scrutiny of
Victor Paul Borg
June 3, 2020 08:00

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