Expulsion-Repatriation-Return

A European Spoon River: migrants without names, without voices and without rights

Date: 06/02/2013 - 15:15

As economic logic supplants all other considerations in crisis-ridden Europe, the plight of immigrants who knock on the doors of Fortress Europe becomes inextricable, often ending with tragic consequences.

Italie: Les renvois de migrants vers la Grèce constituent une violation de leurs droits

Date: 22/01/2013 - 13:37

L'Italie renvoie de manière sommaire des mineurs migrants non accompagnés et de demandeurs d'asile adultes vers la Grèce, où ils subissent les dysfonctionnements du système d'asile et des conditions de détention abusives, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans unrapport publié aujourd'hui.

Italy: Summary Returns to Greece Violate Rights

Date: 22/01/2013 - 13:36

 Italy is summarily returning unaccompanied migrant children and adult asylum seekers to Greece, where they face a dysfunctional asylum system and abusive detention conditions, Human Rights Watch said in a report published today.

Thailand Urged to Extend Migrant Worker Deadline

Date: 15/12/2012 - 08:12

The head of the U.N. International Labor Organization, Guy Ryder, is expected to urge Thailand to extend a Friday deadline for migrant workers to become documented or face deportation. Bangkok is threatening to deport more than a million migrant workers, most from Burma, who do not finish a process called nationality verification, which activists say is flawed.  The United Nations agency opposes mass deportation.

Roma evictions: the European Union is not respecting its commitments to human rights!

Date: 12/09/2012 - 07:26

During summer 2012, various governments of the European Union evicted Roma from their houses. Some states also evicted this population from their land. The European Association for the defense of Human Rights (AEDH) calls on the States to stop these evictions and their stigmatization policy towards the Roma people. The European Association for the defense of Human Rights (AEDH) denounces the violence against Roma people of various Member States of the European Union who took advantage of the summer to expel them from their precarious houses.

Egypt: End Sinai Nightmare for Migrants

Date: 06/09/2012 - 09:00

Egypt should use its increased security force presence in the Sinai Peninsula to free hundreds of migrants held for ransom and abused by human traffickers and other criminals. Security forces should detain, investigate, and prosecute the traffickers.

Thailand: Don’t Deport Pregnant Migrant Workers

Date: 06/07/2012 - 09:19

Thailand’s government should scrap the labor minister’s proposed regulation to deport migrant workers who become pregnant, Human Rights Watch said today. The proposal discriminates against women workers and would not advance the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s stated aim of reducing human trafficking.

Human Cargo: Arbitrary readmissions from the Italian sea ports to Greece

Date: 04/07/2012 - 07:17

Thousands of protection seekers try to cross the sea from Greece to Italy every year. If they manage to arrive in Italy however, they are immediately returned to Greece without any individual assessment of their cases, without any legal safeguards, the report HUMAN CARGO - Arbitrary readmissions from the Italian sea ports to Greece by PRO ASYL and the Greek Council for Refugees has revealed.

Behind higher fences

Date: 19/06/2012 - 08:46

Do the identification and deportation centres for immigrants without residence permits (CIEs – Centri di identificazione ed Espulsione) guarantee the respect of the personal dignity and of the fundamental rights of detainees?

SOS Europe: Human Rights and Migration Control

Date: 14/06/2012 - 07:42

In an attempt to prevent “irregular migration” from Africa to Europe, some European countries implement border control measures outside their own territory. States have reached agreements to intercept boats at sea and return people to Africa, in circumstances that expose people to serious human rights violations. This report examines some of the human rights consequences for migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers that have occurred in the context of Italy’s migration agreements with Libya.

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