January Newsletter 2025 brings the latest updates and insights on R&T' projects.As we step into the new year, we wish for a year of peace and healing, especially after the hardships endured in many parts of the world. From Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, Sudan, to the lake Chad Basin, the past year has brought unimaginable suffering and devastation, leaving civilian populations caught in relentless violence and insecurity.

- Está a punto de finalizar la evaluación conjunta de la Unión Europea sobre sus intervenciones humanitarias en el Cuerno de África. - La creación de un directorio e información sistema de gestión (DIMS) para organizaciones de la sociedad civil se está ultimando. - R&T diseña y desarrolla un enfoque regional para la lucha contra la trata basado en los derechos humanos.

R&T diseñará y desarrollará un enfoque regional de derechos humanos para combatir la trata y el trafico, para asegurar que la protección de los derechos de las presuntas víctimas sean colocadas en el centro de las políticas contra la trata y el trafico.

Roots and Transition (R&T) fue seleccionada para llevar a cabo la evaluación combinada de las intervenciones humanitarias de la Unión Europea en el Cuerno de África, 2016-2020, y la colaboración de la DG ECHO con el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR).

En un mundo cada vez más urbanizado, se aumentaran las operaciones del personal de mantenimiento de la paz en las ciudades.

La rápida escalada de este año, en una nación de África occidental no hace mucho tiempo considerada como un ejemplo de coexistencia religiosa y étnica pacífica, ha tomado por sorpresa a los grupos de ayuda y al gobierno.

The Horn of Africa serves as a critical hub for mixed migration and is a source, transit and destination area for asylum seekers and socio-economic migrants from throughout the region, as well as middle-east. There is also evidence that region is a source, destination, and transit country for girls, boys, women and men. 

Dramatic scenes have been playing out in recent days at the land and sea borders between Greece and Turkey: Greek police tear-gassing and pushing back crowds of asylum seekers at a northern border crossing; Greek riot police patrol along the barbed-wire fence at the Kastanies border checkpoint as asylum seekers gather on the Turkish side on 2 March 2020. (Dimitris Tosidis/Reuters) MUMBAI Dramatic scenes have been playing out in recent days at the land and sea borders between Greece and Turkey: Greek police tear-gassing and pushing back crowds of asylum seekers at a northern border crossing; the Hellenic Coast Guard firing warning shots at a dinghy full of asylum seekers in the Aegean Sea; angry protesters preventing another group in a dinghy from disembarking in the port on the island of Lesvos. The images have been exploited by a savvy Turkish media campaign aimed at maximising pressure on the EU to support Turkish action in northwest Syria and to share more of the burden for hosting refugees. According to refugee advocates and human rights groups, Turkey’s politicisation of the refugee issue and the suffering at the EU’s borders are a predictable outcome of the EU-Turkey deal – a cornerstone of EU efforts to curb irregular migration across its borders. “This is a broader consequence of the EU-Turkey statement,” Sophie McCann, an advocacy manager for the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), told The New Humanitarian. “We’ve been saying it for four years: it’s never going to work. It’s clearly failed.”

Environmental factors leading to and as an effect of migration and displacement must be integrated across all areas of migration management, such as: preparedness, response and durable solutions. Roots and Transition calls for increasing the capacities in research, policy and advocacy efforts, and operational activities in the area of migration, environment and climate change.