On 18th January 1995, the Balladur government decided to curtail circulation in the Comoros archipelago by imposing an entry visa upon inhabitants of the three other Comoran islands (Mohéli, Anjouan, Grande Comore) wishing to enter Mayotte. In this way, the isolation of the island of Mayotte, which broke away from the independent state of the Union of the Comoros twenty years previously following a unilateral decision by France which was contested by the United Nations, became a reality. (...)
Mort·e·s aux frontières
articles mots
Europe’s Murderous Borders (2009)
Migreurop 2009 Report on the violation of human rights at borders
Illegal deportations at the Greek-Turkish border; Oujda: Buffer zone between Morocco and Algeria, airlock to Europe; Calais and North of France: roving zone, England doors; Lampedusa, sentinel Island of Europe
Shipwreck in the high sea off Libya: an announced tragedy. Until when?
Press release Migreurop
On 29 March 2009, 30 km away from the Libyan coast, there was one of the largest shipwrecks in the history of immigration into Europe: out of three boats that set off from Libya, two sank and the third disappeared.
Open letter about the tragedies occuring at the sea
Reply of Migreurop network to a letter of Simon Busuttil, European Parlement member, Head, maltese delegation in the EPP-ED group
To investigate on the death of migrants in South European border
Testimonies from the survivors and from different social Moroccan organizations confirm that the nights of the 28th and 29th of April, a boat with more than seventy people that tried to reach the Spanish coast was hit by security Moroccan forces. At least 36 people drown, babies included. A few months before a complaint for the death of a Senegalese citizen thrown to the sea by the civil guard had arrived. In the frame of the International Committee of the III WSFM (...)