on the fight against the trades of Human beings (breaking up of smuggler networks), the reinforcement of admission possibilities of illegal aliens in their countries of origin, the cooperative surveillance of borders and migration routes, the creation of a Euro-African observatory for migrations, actions to make people aware of the problems,...
Externalisation
. The program follows the logic of the Rabat conference and of the European policy for immigration management. Mauritania will receive 2.45 million euros (quick reaction funds) in order to face the mass arrivals of migrants in the Canaries islands. Several different actions are financed: reinforcement of the control skills (training, fake papers detection, four patrol boats lent by Spain from September 2006 to February 2007), aid for migrant detentions and return, legislation revision in order to facilitate maritime arrests...
to install international norms for asylum and immigration in central Asia. These funds are released in the framework of the TACIS program.
, and would in particular recommend to install border guard teams around Europe, who could be able to intervene quickly in case of mass arrivals of migrants at the EU borders.
, who have been arrested near the Libyan coasts. . They have been split up, after spending several days in the sea, without permission to accost anywhere. [They have been sent to Malta, Spain, Italy, Libya and Anderre.
on the separation and retrenchment process between northern and southern countries, because of (material or immaterial) walls, in Europe as well as in America.
: between the 20th and 25th of July, Moroccan authorities arrested 383 “illegal emigrants”. As for Libya, it declares that 1293 illegal migrants, who were leaving this country, were arrested between the 15th and 25th of July.
. Control reinforcement off the Canary Islands diverted the migratory routes toward Italy. The commissioner Franco Frattini accepted the request and decided therefore to install co-joined patrols, to which Italy, Greece and Malta will participate. From August, they will start patrolling off Malta and Lampedusa Island.
Member States/ Third States
, i.e. more than for the whole year of 2002.
A crisis team has been installed in Oran, following the Ceuta and Melilla events. Oran is a town on the migration route for the sub-Saharan migrants.
. Representatives from Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and the European commission attended it. They worked on the optimisation of the migration for work, for the origin countries as well as for the EU countries.
Great Britain announced a reinforcement of border controls in order to improve the control of entries and departures. Biometric ID will be used for border controls. Efficiency and speeding up of asylum procedures are also part of the new measures. and
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Camps
, as well as the detention conditions in centres.
. Meanwhile the investigation Commission, installed by the interior minister Amat0, starts its work.
(CIRÉ, MRAX, la Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, Point d’appui, Aide aux Personnes Déplacées, Jesuit Refuge Service, Centre Social Protestant, Médecins sans frontières), because of the aggressions that happened in the protestant social retention centre in Vottem.
Many minors are held in British retention centres.
Mobilisations
Refugees and asylum seekers in Morocco protested against the lack of undertaking, which the HCR witnessed: precariousness, no health care, no rights, no schooling etc. Several of them organised a sit-in in front of the HCR in Rabat. , as well as the . Migreurop denounced this situation and explained
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