Today, the international community marks the 72nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a time when the human rights of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are facing unprecedented challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed countless lives across the globe, but perhaps none more so than those of undocumented migrants and other vulnerable non-citizens. According to […]
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U.S. Summary Deportations of Children to Mexico; Detention in Azerbaijan; Quarantine Facilities as Sites of “Detention” – GDP Newsletter 09/11/20
The GDP’s latest research, including immigration detention laws and practices in Azerbaijan, and concerns surrounding detention issues in Niger, Paraguay, Morocco, and Singapore. […]
The Detention of Migrant Workers in El Salvador and Morocco – September 2020 Newsletter
In September 2020, the GDP provided two submissions to the Committee on Migrant Workers (El Salvador and Morocco). Our monthly newsletter provides a full roundup. […]
Immigration Detention in Germany; Detention Concerns in Tunisia and Cyprus – GDP August 2020 Newsletter
In August 2020, the GDP published its latest report on Germany, as well as two submissions to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (Tunisia and Cyprus). Our monthly newsletter provides a full roundup. […]
Immigration detention in Jordan and Algeria; Ongoing concerns in Oman and Lebanon – GDP July 2020 Newsletter
LATEST PUBLICATIONS Immigration Detention in Jordan: Detained by employers, locked inside refugee camps, pushed back into conflict zones Jordan has long played an important role in hosting refugees from neighbouring Arab states and has the second-largest share of refugees per capita worldwide. Although the country has at times been praised for its reception practices, arrests, forced […]
Detention in Hungary; Torture Concerns in Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina – June 2020 Newsletter
LATEST PUBLICATIONS Immigration Detention in Hungary: Transit Zone or Twilight Zone? Hungary’s efforts to block asylum seekers were at the centre of an important May 2020 European Union Court of Justice ruling concerning its “transit zone” detention sites, located along the border with Serbia. For years, Hungary refused to acknowledge that people were “detained” in […]
Spain’s Response to Covid-19; A Paradigm Shift in Argentina – May 2020 Newsletter
LATEST PUBLICATIONS Immigration Detention in Spain: A Rapid Response to Covid-19 On 6 May 2020, Spain reported that for the first time in its history, its immigration detention facilities, “Foreign Internment Centres,” were empty. These centres had long been the target of activists, local politicians, and human rights bodies, who argued that they were unnecessary and […]
Launching the Covid-19 Global Immigration Detention Platform – March/April 2020 Newsletter
THE COVID-19 GLOBAL IMMIGRATION DETENTION PLATFORM As the coronavirus pandemic changes the lives of societies around the world, countries are being forced to alter their detention and deportation decisions. Many countries have already begun releasing detainees because of their inability to deport them. Others have been forced to close detention centres because of the spread […]
Penalising People in Need, from Korea to the Caribbean to the Netherlands – GDP February 2020 Newsletter
OUR LATEST PUBLICATIONS Immigration Detention in the Republic of Korea: Penalising People in Need of Protection Over the last two decades, South Korea has implemented increasingly restrictive asylum and migrant worker policies. The government does not provide adequate data about detention, making it challenging to assess trends in the country, but observers report that this […]
Immigration Detention in Austria: January 2020 Newsletter
OUR LATEST PUBLICATIONS Immigration Detention in Austria: Where the Refugee “Crisis” Never Ends Austria’s domestic politics have been heavily influenced by a divisive debate over the treatment of migrants and refugees. This has had an important impact on the country’s immigration detention practices. Despite years of declining detainee numbers prior to the onset of Europe’s […]
