Joint Statement

MEPs and 32 civil society organisations including Migreurop have released a joint statement following the uncovering of new mass graves earlier this week. They are calling for a freeze on migration funding to Libyan security forces and the opening of safe routes for people escaping the country..
The recent discoveryof dozens of bodies, believed to be people migrating, in mass graves in Jakharrah and the Alkufra desert in Libya is shocking and horrific.
Our thoughts are with the families (…)

Brief #14 - June 2022

Little known to the public, soft law is a formidable weapon in the hands of States, which use this method when they want to get around the constraints and rigidity that national laws or international texts and treaties would impose on them. It is often mobilized in the field of "migration control", without it always being easy to distinguish between the strict application of the law and its circumvention. The externalization of asylum and immigration policies is a typical example of the use (…)

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 (…)