Several hundred refugees and migrants are thought have drowned in the past few months escaping Libya, trying to find a better life.

在马赫罗夫乘坐的船触礁的那天夜里，三名乘客失去性命。过去几个月来，据信有数百名试图寻求过上更好生活的难民和民工被海水淹死。

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European warships and planes have been deployed, not to help Libyans but to stop refugees and migrants from landing on European shores, or to bring home EU nationals.

欧洲的军舰和飞机已经部署就位，但不是为帮助利比亚，而是为阻止难民和移民登陆欧洲海岸，以及撤离欧盟公民。

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As we consider how we can better respond to the movements of refugees and migrants, I call upon everyone to take the special needs and concerns of rural women into account.

在我们考虑如何更好地应对难民和移民潮时，我呼吁大家考虑到农村妇女的特殊需要和关切。

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Yet the Thai government's recent moves suggest at least that it realises that refugees and migrants can be a boon as well as a burden.

ECONOMIST: South-East Asia's refugees

Meanwhile Thailand's government briefly thought that a deal was possible with Myanmar's junta, in which the refugees and other migrants could be sent back under United Nations protection.

ECONOMIST: South-East Asia's refugees

But other aspects of the proposed new asylum laws, which go well beyond a reasonable attempt to distinguish between political refugees and economic migrants, are much less defensible.

ECONOMIST: Unbolting the stable door