MEPs must say NO to the new Frontex!

On 6 July, the European Parliament, meeting in plenary, will approve the replacement of Frontex by a European border-guards and coast-guards body. This new agency will actually turn out to be a reinforced version of Frontex agency with more powers, still lacking independent control over its activities, if not human rights violations occurring during operations it is coordinating.
It is very likely that the European parliament will adopt a text which wrongly presents migration as threat to (...)

On June 10, the “Coalition internationale des Sans Papiers et Migrants” (CISPM) launched – together with NGOs and coalitions from France, Italy and Spain – an international call for the end of sorting, filing, tracking and detention of foreigners within the European Union and at its borders and for the closure of detention centres and “hotspots”.
All the research and on the spot observation lead to the conclusion that the deprivation of liberty, whatever form it takes, leads to the violation of (...)

May, 30th 2016
This afternoon, the Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the European Parliament will approve the creation of a new European Border and Coast Guard (EBCG) to replace Frontex. The EBCG is set out to be a stronger, more powerful Frontex that will not be subject to scrutiny by any independent authority. No independent mechanisms are foreseen to hold the agency accountable in case of human rights violations.
The LIBE committee will likely approve a (...)

Sign the petition !

Launched in the UK, where demos have been organised in front of almost all detention centres this Saturday, May 7, a call for an international mobilisation against immigration detention and deportations was diffused in over ten countries, including France.
But in Calais, the demonstration in front of the Coquelles detention centre was forbidden by prefectoral order because of the "state of emergency".
To sign the petition "For freedom of expression in Calais", addressed to the regional (...)

Paris, March 16th, 2016
At a further summit meeting in Brussels on the 17 and 18 March, the EU and Turkey will adopt an agreement intended to resolve what is wrongly described as the ‘migrant crisis’. This is a plan above all that will allow the European Union to push refugees back beyond EU borders, and to subcontract its obligations to Turkey. Thus will members states flee their responsibilities in defiance of the right to asylum. Migreurop, a European and African network that unites some (...)