π¨ BVMNβs UN Advocacy Team is seeking dedicated volunteers to join us as UN Advocacy Officers!
π Apply here: borderviolence.eu/volunteer-ap...
β° Deadline: 31/03/2025
π¨ This week, we participated in negotiations at the 58th UN Human Rights Council on the Draft Resolution on Human Rights Defenders & New Technologies, pushing for stronger recognition of migrant rights defenders, who face surveillance, hacking, threats & doxxing across Europe.
Whilst recognised as a likely under-estimate of the true picture, the UN/IOM Missing Migrants Project recorded 82 deaths in the English Channel last year - 14 of whom were children.
This is more than triple the deaths in 2023 and is a direct result of the lack of safe and regular migration routes.
Disappointing news today from Croatia regarding our 2021
@lhreports.bsky.social et. al. Masked Men investigation:
The State Attorney's Office concluded (3+ years later) that there is no reasonable suspicion that the officers "tortured migrants or treated them cruelly"
www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...
In the two most recent rulings related to pushback incidents, the ECHR confirmed that Greece systematically pushes people back at its borders. The rulings are both a success and a setback. Read our full statement via the link below.
borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn...
π¨ The #BorderViolenceMonitoringNetwork has released its joint #TrialMonitoring report on the Homayoun Sabetara trial in Greece π¬π·
The report highlights violations with #fairtrial standards including access to interpretation and right to cross-examination.
borderviolence.eu/reports/the-...
Rights court delivers 'shocking' verdict in Greek pushback case
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
Today, the European Court of Human Rights is expected to issue two landmark judgements on #pushbacks in #Greece.
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
Despite requests submitted to emergency services, no attempts were made to search for and save lives. The Mission Wings team now faces the responsibility of trying to identify these individuals to ensure that missing and disappeared migrants are not forgotten.
Over the last 24 hours, #MissionWingsFoundation in #Bulgaria has reported the deaths of two people on the move, including the Border Patrolβs active obstruction of attempts to reach a boy who was in critical condition but still alive at the time.
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β Three people dead at three different detention centers in Greece
β 21 people killed as a result of the violent border regime in Samos and Kos, at the Serbian-Bosnian border and in the English Channel
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β Testimonies attesting to police violence and intimidation with guns at the borders of Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Bosnia-Herzegovina
β Research from BVMN into the surveillance technologies deployed in Bulgaria
β Protests at the Γatalca Removal Center in Turkey
1/3 π The Border Violence Monitoring Network October report is now online.
borderviolence.eu/reports/balk...
With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things:
β Transit reception centers in Serbia not reopening for the winter
Today, Border criminologies, Mobile Infor Team, and BVMN present evidence on ongoing human rights violations in Greek pre-removal detention centres to the Council of Europeβs Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). Read more here:ππΌ
www.mobileinfoteam.org/cpt-submissi...
The πͺπΊ Committee of Ministers had an exchange of views with the EU Commissioner for Human Rights in which he raised concerned with the securitisation of borders, the instrumentalisation of #migration and use of #pushbacks.
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
University of Leeds is offering #scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
#ScholarshipOpportunity
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
