Opinion piece - co-signed by ANAFÉ, GISTI, JRS France, LA CIMADE

On 12 May, the French Senate will examine a bill aimed at entrusting the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII) with the task of providing legal information in administrative detention centres (CRA), places of deprivation of liberty where people are detained because they do not have papers. The aim of this proposal is to remove associations from these centres by abolishing their role in helping people to exercise their rights. If adopted, this text would deal a fatal blow to (…)

Algeria TV5 Monde, ’Algérie : plus de 1800 migrants expulsés à la frontière avec le Niger’, 25 April 2025
The Algerian authorities have returned more than 1,800 people on the move without right of residence to the border town of Assamaka (Niger), bringing to 4,000 the number of people pushed back during the month of April. However, these figures only take into account people registered on the Niger side: they could therefore be higher if they included people pushed back who immediately (…)

Declaration from the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES)

The European Commission has issued a consolidated list of “safe third countries of origin,” which will be ratified by the Council and the European Parliament, making it binding on all EU countries.
The creation of the “safe countries of origin” list is part of the policies of externalizing European migration policies, limiting asylum, facilitating and accelerating deportation and expulsion procedures, and becoming a political bargaining chip to whitewash undemocratic regimes to reward them (…)

Brief #16 - December 2024

The long-standing desire of European countries to externalise the processing of asylum applications has recently taken concrete form in the UK/Rwanda and Italy/Albania ’agreements’. While the British initiative has been abandoned, the Italian one has been temporarily blocked. Following the cancellation of the first two transfers of people on the move to camps in Albania, and pending the decision of the Court of Cassation in Rome on the Italian government’s appeal, the latter has recalled the (…)

Egypt The New Arab, ’UNHCR suspends aid to refugees in Egypt over lack of funding’, 26 March 2025
On 25 March, the UNHCR announced that it would be ceasing its assistance activities for refugees in Egypt, including medical care for those fleeing the war in Sudan. The UN agency estimates that this decision, which it says was forced by uncertainty over the amount of contributions it can expect to receive this year, will affect around 20,000 people, who will be deprived of vital treatments (…)