Didzis Melbiksis

@didzis_m

Associate Communication / PI Officer at UNHCR Regional Representation for Northern Europe. Spokesperson for Estonia & Latvia. Views mine.

Stockholm, Sweden
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Joined March 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    1 Nov 2017

    Katram cilvēkam ir tiesības meklēt patvērumu no vajāšanas citās valstīs un izmantot šo patvērumu. (ANO Vispārējā cilvēktiesību deklarācija)

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  2. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    EU leaders headed to Brussels Sunday for emergency talks over as Italy's new populist cabinet turned away another rescue ship, vowing no longer to shoulder Europe's migrant burden

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    7 hours ago

    300 refugees stranded at sea. It makes you ashamed to be a European.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Låst läge inför EU:s krismöte om migration

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  5. 6 hours ago

    Första ryska flygattacken i Syrien på nära ett år (via )

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    11 hours ago

    🌇🏙🌃 ICYMI, a new initiative announced this week by - Mayors of 50 of the world's greatest cities - from Amsterdam to Sydney, Chicago to Mexico City, Manchester to Dallas - joined the Cities Initiative. Much hope in the cities.

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    12 hours ago

    "I want to go back to bc my kids are not going to school here...but I can't," said Toulin to Toulin & her 5 kids displaced from Afrin & now in Al Asr camp in rural . We continue to provide relief items to displaced families, but these children deserve more.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jun 23

    A regional disembarkation mechanism could help improving the predictability of disembarkation and safeguarding rescue-at-sea regime. This a Mediterranean challenge which must be dealt as such.

    In the past few minutes, it’s emerged that the German NGO migrant rescue ship has rescued around 300 migrants off the coast of . Around double the capacity. ATOW, it’s unclear where the ship will be allowed take the migrants. The next political test for EU leaders
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    Jun 23

    Those shouting about a “refugee emergency” in Europe or America should visit African communities giving refuge to millions with small resources. Energies would be better spent helping people address problems here while sharing some of the refugee burden born by poor countries.

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  10. Retweeted
    Jun 20

    There's NO "Burden" in : Evidence suggests that after only one year, increase in public spending induced by asylum seekers is more than compensated for by an increase in tax revenues net of transfers

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    Jun 22

    'Dying was better than living as a refugee in Libya'

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    Jun 22

    Proud to be able to welcome so many people standing in solidarity at the opening of Summer Bazaar for

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    Jun 21

    , Agadez, many Sudanese refugees from Darfur, fled refugee camps in Chad due to severe reduction of assistance, in particular food aid, they went to Libya to try to find work & many ended up enslaved in farms. They then escaped to Niger.

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    Jun 22

    EU member states will soon debate migration and refugees. Read the statement which I issued ahead of these important discussions.

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    Jun 22

    More than 1,000 refugees & migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in 2018. An agreement by the EU on: 🌊 rescue at sea 🚢 disembarkation 🤝 sharing arrangements is needed NOW. How many more lives lost before we do the right thing? ▶️

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  16. Retweeted
    Jun 22

    The $951 million appeal to meet the immediate needs of more than 880,000 refugees and over 330,000 Bangladeshis in communities affected by the crisis is just 21% funded

    6 replies . 62 retweets 79 likes
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    Jun 21

    The coast of Libya once again became a deadly trap for over 220 people who were escaping the horrors of war, the scourge of poverty or the hopelessness of detention. Mourning them.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jun 21

    A globally high migration rate? No. Unprecedented numbers of refugees? No. Most going to Europe? Not by any stretch of the imagination.

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    Jun 21

    A refugee child evacuated from Libya to Niger made this drawing. He could have been among the 220 people who drowned in the Mediterranean today. Let’s give more children safe pathways out of despair.

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    Jun 20

    Dogan, a refugee from DRC fled with his familywhen he was 8. Today he’s pursuing his Masters degree at NYU despite all the obstacles put in his way. “I had a seed of hope that I had to sow” on & everyday

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    Jun 21

    Very saddened by the news of 120 persons drowning at sea off the coast of over the past 2 days. Calling for legal pathways to provide alternatives to these dangerous crossings for persons in need of international protection in Libya

    8 replies . 115 retweets 117 likes
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