Press release

Press release of Euro Meditarranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and Migreurop

Since its foundation, Migreurop has denounced the consequences of the EU policies that use detention of migrants as the main tool to control migratory flows. Deprivation of liberty for someone whose crime is to try to live or survive in another country is highly questionable. Moreover, detention places are places of dehumanization where many abuses, human rights violations and acts of violence take place. The recent riots in detention centers for migrants in Malta, Italy and France since the (…)

Médecins sans Frontières exposes conditions for undocumented migrants and asylum Seekers IN MALTESE DETENTION CENTRES

http://www.medicisenzafrontiere.it/msfinforma/news.asp++cs_INTERRO++id=2021

Press release Migreurop

On 29 March 2009, 30 km away from the Libyan coast, there was one of the largest shipwrecks in the history of immigration into Europe: out of three boats that set off from Libya, two sank and the third disappeared.

Externalization of migration management - the Libyan caseAccording to EU sources, around half a million immigrants enter the European Union illegally every year. In order to control this movement, the EU has increased its cooperation with sending and transit countries of migration. Through financial and technical aid the EU helps them to establish infrastructures and practices that should stem the flow of immigrants and thus create ‘buffer zones’ around the EU. But are we aware of all the (…)