2013 - MIGREUROP

18 Dec 2013

Positioning statements

Call for the closure of camps for migrants and for freedom of movement

Call for the closure of camps for migrants, in Europe and beyond 2010
In member states of the European Union, as well as in neighboring countries (Libya, Morocco, Turkey, Ukraine) and beyond (Mauritania, Lebanon), the presence of an ever increasing number of zones of detention conceals policies and practices contrary to international commitments which some of these states are bound to (the United Nation Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, the International Convention on the (…)

13 Dec 2013

WatchTheMed: a counter-surveillance network to stop deaths and violations of migrants’ rights at sea

5th of December 2013
While the EU launches Eurosur – the European Border Surveillance System – to further militarize its maritime borders, members of civil society launch WatchTheMed (watchthemed.net) – a “counter-Eurosur” to document and denounce migrants’ deaths and violations of their rights in the Mediterranean.
3rd of October 2013. A boat carrying more than 500 people sinks less than 1km from the coast of Lampedusa. At least 366 people die, only 155 people are rescued.
The (…)

13 Dec 2013

Launch of Migreurop’s collaborative website closethecamps.org

Mapping as a means to denounce the detention of migrants in Europe and beyond

393. This is the number of closed camps detaining migrants that appear on the closethecamps.org website launched today. These camps have all been in use between 2011 and 2013, and are located in the European Union’s (EU) countries, in accessing countries which have applied for membership to the EU, in those that qualify for the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and in some of those which participate in the European migration policies.
These figures only reflect detention in close camps (…)

5 Dec 2013

63 migrants left to die in the Mediterranean: Survivors file a complaint against the Belgian army

FIDH - Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme LDH - Ligue des droits de l’Homme in Belgium AEDH - Association européenne pour la défense des droits de l’Homme Gisti - Groupe d’information et de soutien des immigré.e.s Migreurop
Today, three survivors of a tragedy that caused the deaths of 63 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, filed a complaint at the Brussels Tribunal of First Instance against the Belgian army for failing to provide assistance to persons in distress. (…)

3 Dec 2013

EU-Tunisia Mobility Partnership: Externalisation policy in disguise

On 5 December, representatives of the European Union (EU), its member states and Tunisia are set to sign a ‘Mobility Partnership’. It will be the sixth agreement of its kind to be signed by the EU, with similar agreements already signed with other countries, including Morocco.

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Positioning statements

WatchTheMed: a counter-surveillance network to stop deaths and violations of migrants’ rights at sea

Launch of Migreurop’s collaborative website closethecamps.org

63 migrants left to die in the Mediterranean: Survivors file a complaint against the Belgian army

EU-Tunisia Mobility Partnership: Externalisation policy in disguise