Call for Solidarity with Abdallah Said

On November 12, 2024, Abdallah Said, activist and president of the Enfants de la Lune association in Médenine , was placed in police custody by the Tunisian financial investigation unit. After a long interrogation, the charges against him remain unclear, but they appear to be mainly related to his humanitarian work supporting refugee, migrant, and abandoned children in the Médenine region.
This event is part of a troubling trend of criminalizing solidarity in Tunisia, which has (…)

Dunkirk, Saturday 23rd of Novembrer 2024, from 7pm

Three years after the shipwreck of 24 November 2021 we stand together to call for a world free from border violence. As deaths at the FR-UK border have reached unprecedented levels in 2024, we call on political authorities to learn from the tragic events of 24 November 2021, amongst others, and put an end to this.
On 24 November 2021, at least 33 people in a dinghy tried to reach the United Kingdom from the coast of Dunkirk. Many of them came from Iraqi Kurdistan, but also from (…)

The European coastguard and border guard agency turns 20 years old on this 26 October 2024 . It’s a sad anniversary for an agency that has been widely blamed for decades for direct and indirect violations of the rights of people on the move . An agency whose aim is to ‘protect’ Europe’s borders, with no regard for the lives and safety of those who try to cross them. An agency that is the symbol of a deadly border regime and the standard-bearer of repressive and ultra-secure migration (…)

Open Letter

26 October 2024
Dear Ms. Ursula von der Leyen,
October 26 will mark the 20th anniversary of Frontex, the EU’s border agency. It should also mark the last.
Frontex is a deadly failed experiment. It has made countless people less safe, eroded the values and ideals the European Union claims to hold dear, and provided a backdoor into government for corporate power.
When Frontex was found to be complicitin systematic and serious human rights violations in Greece – by none other than the (…)

Migreurop conference - October 11th 2024 - 2pm to 4pm (GMT +2) - Festival SABIR, Rome

As the European border and coast guard agency Frontex celebrates its 20th anniversary on 26 October 2024, the Migreurop network, in conjunction with its members, is organising a public conference to mark the 10th edition of the Sabir Festival (Rome). Its aim is to take stock of the activities and abuses of the Frontex agency, and 20 years of war on migrants in defiance of rights.
Programme :
Introduction: The agency’s insidious development over the last 20 years - 10 mins : Brigitte (…)