Since 2014, and the Tarajal massacre, 6 February has become a day of commemoration for all those who have died or disappeared at the borders, victims - on their journey of exile - of murderous migration policies.
In addition to the traditional March for Dignity in Ceuta on 5 February (9th edition), many commemorative events are planned in Africa and Europe on 6 February to pay homage to these victims whom we do not forget, to demand justice, and to recall that migration is a right.
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Immediate withdrawal of the Italy-Libya Memorandum : Civil society appeal to the Italian government, UNHCR and IOM
Collective Action
On February 2, 2022, the day of the fifth anniversary of the Memorandum Italy-Libya, ASGI together with several dozens of Italian, Libyan, African and European organisations, including Migreurop, publishes a document analysing and denouncing the effects of the Memorandum and launches an appeal to italian government and international organisations: the only way to protect migrants in Libya is the immediate revocation of the Memorandum.
The implementation of the Memorandum through (...)Frontex, a European agency out of control
Brief Migreurop #3 - 3rd edition, December 2021
Although criticism from NGOs has been ignored for many years, today Frontex is under the spotlight. Since it began operating in 2005, the European border and coast guard agency has played a growing role in the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) security-driven migration policy. Frontex has been hailed for a long time by European institutions which have relentlessly increased its competences for 15 years in the areas of control and expulsions, as well as its budget (which has risen (...)
Migrants vs Covid-19:an epidemic of emergency measures
Brief #13 - June 2021
Covid-19 has deepened structural inequalities. As a result, migrants from countries of the global South have been severely impacted by the pandemic and the measures aimed at curtailing its spread. People whose situation has been made illegal, displaced persons and those fleeing war or trying to get across borders to improve their lot have been hard hit by border closures. No longer able to “go home” and self-isolate, these people have endured a new form of warfare waged against them, in (...)
The Channel, Europe’s other graveyard
In the Channel, as elsewhere, European migration policies are killing and hindering the right of every person to move freely
On 24 November 2021, yet another shipwreck claimed the lives of at least 27 people trying to reach the UK from France, adding to the list of more than 300 people who have died since 1999 at this border. Like the Mediterranean, where more than 38,000 migrants have died or gone missing since the early 2000s, the English Channel has been turned into a graveyard by murderous European migration policies.
The horror of this tragedy is compounded by the authorities’ unbearable hypocrisy, and the (...)