Trinidad and Tobago has a long track record placing children and families in immigration detention, including children fleeing nearby Venezuela, and the country has no legal provision prohibiting the detention of children and their families. Although not detained in the country’s sole dedicated immigration detention centre in Aripo, child migrants and refugees and their families […]
Publications & Events
Tajikistan: Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
In partnership with the International Legal Initiative (ILI), the GDP has submitted information to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) highlighting the country’s detention and deportation of child refugees and asylum seekers. This submission was prepared ahead of the CRC’s upcoming 101st session, due to be held in August-September 2026. […]
India: Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
For years, India has served as an important destination for asylum seekers and refugees from neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. However, under the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) there has been a marked increase in xenophobic attitudes and policies; a securitised approach to immigration enforcement; and intensified detention and deportation operations targeting specific groups like Rohingya refugees and persons perceived to be Bangladeshi, especially Bengali-speaking Muslims. […]
Kuwait: Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
In a submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the GDP and the Migrant Rights Research Open Repository (MRRORS) direct the Committee’s attention to Kuwait’s detention and removal of migrants on immigration status related grounds. The submission examines how immigration enforcement practices—including detention, deportation, and restrictions linked to residency status—affect migrant […]
Lithuania: Joint Submission to the Universal Periodic Review
Together with our partner in Lithuania, the Human Rights Monitoring Institute (HRMI), the GDP submitted a joint report to the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) examining Lithuania’s immigration detention laws and policies. Highlighting Lithuania’s failure to implement key recommendations it accepted during the third cycle of the UPR in 2022, the report documents ongoing concerns […]
Webinar: “Immigration Detention: From Global Trends to Bosnia and Herzegovina”
On 23 June, the GDP was invited to speak at a Collective Aid webinar, “Immigration Detention: From Global Trends to Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Presenting their latest research report examining conditions within Bosnia and Herzegovina‘s Lukavica Detention Centre, Collective Aid’s Advocacy Manager Anna Gruber highlighted serious deficiencies in the centre, including degrading living conditions, a near-total […]
2025 Annual Report: Building Momentum to Roll Back Immigration Detention
The Global Detention Project 2025 Annual Report chronicles a year of expanding research, advocacy, and global engagement amid rapidly evolving migration control regimes. From exposing abusive detention practices and opaque deportation arrangements to strengthening partnerships with UN bodies, civil society, and affected communities, the report captures growing momentum to challenge immigration detention and advance respect for migrants’, asylum seekers’, and refugees’ fundamental rights worldwide. […]
Ghana: Joint Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers
Together with Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the Ghana-based Democracy Hub, and the Global Strategic Litigation Council, the Global Detention Project has urged the UN Committee on Migrant Workers to assess the country’s recent agreement with the United States to accept deported third-country nationals, as well as its subsequent detention and removal of these individuals. […]
Guatemala: Joint Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers
In a submission to the United Nations Committee on Migrant Workers ahead of its adoption of a List of Issues Prior to Reporting for Guatemala, the Global Detention Project and the American Friends Service Committee called on the Committee to request detailed information from Guatemala regarding its recent agreement with the United States to accept deported third-country nationals. Together, we also urged the Committee to seek information on the detention and removal of these individuals to enable effective scrutiny of the impacts of this scheme. […]
MSF-Italy General Assembly Keynote: The Global Expansion of Immigration Detention, “Unleashed from Human Rights”
11 April 2026 In a keynote address at MSF-Italy General Assembly in Italy, the GDP’s Executive Director issued a stark warning: immigration detention is not only expanding worldwide—it is becoming more punitive, less accountable, and increasingly detached from basic human rights standards. Alongside panellists Stefano Anastasia (the Guarantor for the rights of detainees for the […]
