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”.
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Members of the European Parliament about to vote for the creation of a new Frontex: a denial of human rights
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 (...)For the freedom of expression in Calais
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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 (...)The Turkey/European Union agreement: Externalising borders to end the right to asylum
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 (...)As Aleppo is crushed under bombs
UE member states are calling on Turkey to control their borders
While residents of the Aleppo region are forced to flee under a shower of bombs, European governments’ primary concern is to confine them as far away as possible from their borders. For this purpose, they rely on Turkey, although it is already a party to the geopolitical battleground around Syria. While tens of thousands of refugees are stranded at the Turkish border, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is negotiating with desperate European leaders the recognition of Turkey as a "safe country" (which (...)