On 3 March, Tunisia and the European Union signed a ‘mobility partnership’.
Over the last two years, the signatory organizations have repeatedly expressed their concerns about this partnership. We hereby reiterate them and condemn the lack of transparency in the negotiation process which did not involve civil society actors, many of whom have been active on issues directly relevant to the agreement. The implementation of such agreement is particularly worrying in the current Tunisian (...)
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European Parliament: do not vote in favour of a EU/Turkey readmission agreement!
On 26 February, the European Parliament will vote on the “EU-Turkey agreement on the readmission of persons residing without authorisation”. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and Migreurop call upon the European Parliament to vote against this agreement until the full respect of rights of migrants and refugees can be guaranteed at all stages of the readmission procedure.
This agreement would allow the EU and Turkey to return foreign nationals irregularly entering and/or (...)The EU must suspend its agreement with Ukraine on expulsion of migrants
The situation is far from stable in Ukraine, following the death of dozens of demonstrators at the hands of the forces of order and the fall of President Yanukovych. In towns such as Lviv, near the Polish border, arms stores in police stations have been looted and police units are in a state of paralysis. While the bloodbath has halted, the country has been torn apart in three months of crisis, its economy is weakened, partition looms, and the democratic context is very uncertain.
In (...)CHRONOLOGY
A critical chronology of European migration policies.
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Inquiry into the Italian Centres for Identification and Expulsion
«Medici per i Diritti Umani-MEDU (Doctors for Human Rights Italy) is a non-profit humanitarian organisation dedicated to international solidarity, independent of any political, labour union, religious or ethnic affiliation.
MEDU aims to: Bring humanitarian aid to the most vulnerable populations, in crisis situations both in Italy and abroad; Develop democratic and participatory spaces within civil society for the purposes of
promoting the right to health and other basic human rights.
The (...)