Open letter from Sea-Watch e.V.

Dear Mr. Leijtens,
Frontex is once again obstructing democratic scrutiny.
Your agency is demanding that we — a civil society organisation — pay €11,093.32 in court costs, for a legal case that arose because Frontex refused to release documents related to a clear human rights violation. This demand is an act of institutional intimidation designed to deter public oversight and silence accountability efforts.
In 2021, we filed a Freedom of Information request for documents and footage (…)

Crossborder Forum statement

We, organisations and individuals standing in solidarity with migrants across the French-Belgian-British border, condemn unequivocally the continued violence and securitisation of borders, as proposed by Starmer and Macron.
As the French government risks bowing to pressure from the UK government to modify their maritime law to allow these police interventions, they have now requested a proposal from the Interministerial Committee of the Ocean, with the intention to authorise the dangerous (…)

Joint press release and Infosheets

On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, on 20 June, EuroMed Rights is publishing three fact-sheets highlighting the alarming conditions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey, where the security and rights of citizens and people on the move alike are under serious threat. On this symbolic day, we salute and pay tribute to the resilience of all those forced to flee their country, their family, their environment, to escape conflicts, precariousness, political persecution, or climate disasters. But (…)

CALL FOR SOLIDARITY CONVERGENCE

Migreurop is a co-signatory of this open letter, upon the initiative of Tunisian Solidarity
For Sherifa, Saadia, Saloua, Mohamed, Iyadh, Abderazek, Abdelkarim, Sonia, Mustapha, Ikbal, Imen, Mourad, Rached, and all the unknown victims of the repression of human solidarity in Tunisia.
We, families of the victims of repression, support movements, civil society organizations, human rights defenders, and solidarity-driven citizens, raise our voices today in defense of justice, freedom, (…)

Joint Statement

In recent years, Algeria’s public sphere has witnessed an alarming rise in hate speech and persistent incitement against migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Migrants face racist rhetoric widely circulated in some media outlets and on social media, which promotes systematic violations and fuels a general climate of marginalization and discrimination. The undersigned organizations, including Migreurop, denounce this rhetoric, and call on the Algerian authorities to halt arbitrary mass expulsions (…)