Profiles on France, United Kingdom, and South Africa. New resource web pages. Presentation at UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. GDP’s website promotion. […]
Publications & Events
Immigration Detention in Cyprus
For many years, Cyprus used prisons and police stations to detain migrants and asylum seekers. After years of criticism from NGOs and regional rights bodies like the Council of Europe, Cyprus opened its first specialised immigration detention facility in 2013. However, reports indicate the country continues to make use of police cells. There have also […]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement – FOIA Case Number 07-FOIA-51185
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Catrina M. Pavlik-Keenan) – Letter to the Global Detention Project (Michael Flynn) 7 November 2007 […]
On its border, new problems: EU efforts to externalise migration controls
In the early 2000s, after Spain shut down the migration route through its enclaves on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast, Melilla and Ceuta, desperate refugees and migrants began targeting Spain’s Canary Islands, off the West Coast of Africa, using Mauritania as their new launching point. Spain responded by boosting naval patrols off the coast and building a […]
What’s the Deal at Manta?
The United States said it would restrict its activities at Manta to anti-drug efforts—so why is it messing with migrants and more? […]
