The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) has echoed concerns raised by the Global Detention Project and our partner in Israel, the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants (HRM), regarding the country’s detention of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. While the CAT review was dominated by human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank, the Committee highlighted poor conditions in immigration detention facilities, as well as worrying legislative developments that place non-nationals at risk of both indefinite detention and refoulement. […]
Uzbekistan: Cooperation with EU and US Raises Questions about Human Rights Obligations
Uzbekistan’s immigration laws and practices have received little international attention. However, new arrangements with both the European Union and the United States are raising questions about the country’s commitments to its human rights obligations. […]
Lebanon: Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Lebanon’s legal framework for immigration enforcement does not provide protection to children, leaving migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking children vulnerable to detention, imprisonment, and expulsion. In a joint submission, the GDP and CLDH highlighted concerns to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, ahead of its preparation of its List of Issues Prior to Reporting. […]
Externalisation: ACHPR Calls on African States to Protect Migrants Amid Rising Deals
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has issued a new resolution cautioning against the externalisation of migration governance and urging African States to safeguard the rights and dignity of migrants deported from non-African countries. Adopted amidst a surge in bilateral agreements between African governments and external partners–in particular the United States and the European Union–the resolution echoes similar warnings from other international monitoring bodies and underscores the serious risks associated with externalised migration enforcement schemes. […]
Kosovo, Emerging Partner in Efforts to Outsource Migration Control
In October, reports revealed that Kosovo was in discussion with the UK to receive rejected asylum seekers as part of the UK government’s efforts to set up “return hubs” abroad–a move observers have condemned as punitive and potentially threatening migrants’ rights. Both the United States and Denmark have also made deals with the country in recent years, part of a broader and increasingly concerning trend of externalising migration controls, including detention, to third countries. […]
Uganda: Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers
Uganda’s important role in hosting refugees recently received global attention after it agreed to a deal with the United States to accept deported third-country nationals who have pending asylum claims in the United States. While this agreement has raised concerns about Uganda’s commitments to uphold its human rights and humanitarian commitments, it nevertheless follows a pattern of adopting increasingly restrictive policies and practices in recent years, undermining Uganda’s long-held reputation as a welcoming country. […]
Mauritania: Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers
Over the past two decades, efforts to detain and remove migrants in Mauritania have intensified in response to mounting pressure from European countries to curb migration flows. In a submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers, the GDP highlights how Mauritania’s immigration detention and deportation policies and practices contravene key provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. […]
Albania: Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers
In a submission to the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) ahead of its adoption of its List of Issues Prior to Reporting during its 41st session, the Global Detention Project addressed concerns about the country’s migration-related detention policies and practices, including its collaboration with Italy in detaining third-country migrants deported by its neighbour. […]
France: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Finds Country Responsible for Grave and Systematic Violations of the Rights of Unaccompanied Migrant Children
An investigation undertaken by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has concluded that France is committing “grave and systematic violations” of the rights of unaccompanied migrant children. In particular, it notes that flawed age assessment procedures are resulting in children being left homeless on the streets where they are exposed to violence and abuse, and that the detention of unaccompanied minors at Paris Charles de Gaulle is “disproportionate and therefore arbitrary.” […]
Tunisia: Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Since 2023, Tunisia has adopted a particularly hardline approach to migration, and observers have documented a surge in violence against African migrants including raids, arbitrary arrests, detentions, and mass deportations to the borders with Algeria and Libya. These practices have coincided with growing European support for the country’s border control and migration “management.” In a joint submission with FTDES, the GDP highlights concerns to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. […]
