Brief #16 - December 2024

The long-standing desire of European countries to externalise the processing of asylum applications has recently taken concrete form in the UK/Rwanda and Italy/Albania ’agreements’. While the British initiative has been abandoned, the Italian one has been temporarily blocked. Following the cancellation of the first two transfers of people on the move to camps in Albania, and pending the decision of the Court of Cassation in Rome on the Italian government’s appeal, the latter has recalled the (…)

Egypt The New Arab, ’UNHCR suspends aid to refugees in Egypt over lack of funding’, 26 March 2025
On 25 March, the UNHCR announced that it would be ceasing its assistance activities for refugees in Egypt, including medical care for those fleeing the war in Sudan. The UN agency estimates that this decision, which it says was forced by uncertainty over the amount of contributions it can expect to receive this year, will affect around 20,000 people, who will be deprived of vital treatments (…)

Egypt Jurist News, ’Egypt criticised over treatment of Sudanese refugees’, 22 February 2025
The degrading living conditions of Sudanese refugees in Egypt have been the subject of a report bythe NGO Refugee International, which warns of their lack of access to health services, education and employment, and the likelihood that this situation will worsen in the wake of the adoption and entry into force of Egypt’s new asylum law. This law raises several concerns : end of UNHCR’s registration (…)

Nouakchott

The Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l’Homme (AMDH) expresses its deep indignation and condemns in the strongest possible terms the mass roundups and arbitrary arrests of migrants carried out by the Mauritanian authorities in recent days. These actions, carried out with brutality and disregard for fundamental rights, constitute a serious violation of human dignity and of the international and regional commitments made by our country.
We recall that Mauritania has signed several (…)

Series of articles on the Balkans by Morgane Dujmovic

The European Migration and Asylum Pact adopted this spring could lead to an increase in police tracking of people exiled in the Balkans. For some twenty years now, the EU and Frontex have been developing surveillance systems with lethal effects. By going up the rivers which separate several countries in the region, this portfolio goes back to the sources of this cycle of violence.
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Episode #1
In the spring of 2024, Morgane (…)