Frontex: 20 years of war on migrants in defiance of rights

As the European border and coast guard agency Frontex celebrates its 20th anniversary on 26 October 2024, the Migreurop network, in conjunction with its members, is organising a public conference to mark the 10th edition of the Sabir Festival (Rome). Its aim is to take stock of the activities and abuses of the Frontex agency, and 20 years of war on migrants in defiance of rights.

Programme :

Introduction: The agency’s insidious development over the last 20 years - 10 mins : Brigitte Espuche, coordination Migreurop

1) The state of play since 2019: persistent abuses, deadly practices - 15 mins : Laura Salzano – Researcher in European migration law and professor of European law, University of Barcelona

2) The agency’s external action vs civil activism: the case of the Balkans and the African continent - 20 mins: Nidzara Ahmetašević – Independent Researcher & Aïda Thiam, Journalist, activist of Boza Fii (Senegal), and member of the civil society 

3) Frontex, judge and jury: the impact of its risk analyses & expansive development - 15 mins: Matthias Monroy, Editor of civil rights journal Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP and nd.Der Tag

4) Structural impunity vs control and legal tools - 20 mins : Omer Shatz, Director of front-LEX, a senior fellow at the Democracy Institute’s Rule of Law clinic and lecturer in international law at Sciences Po. Paris & Ruben Robbesom, Policy Advisor to MEP Tineke Strik (Greens/European Free Alliance)

5) Frontex, symbol of European security-oriented policy: a stronger role in the Asylum and Migration Pact - 15 mins: Yasha Maccanico, Statewatch

Conclusion: The agency must be abolished! - 10 mins : Stéphanie Demblon, Abolish Frontex

Q&R

Follow the conference live via Zoom via zoom: https://arci-it.zoom.us/j/89012389690?pwd=pwP1QhAJdPsGmZTV9zux2vamtDq29m.1#success

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