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. […]
Submissions & RecommendationsTargeted submissions and recommendations produced by the Global Detention Project, often in collaboration with partner organisations, for regional and international human rights monitoring mechanisms, treaty review bodies, interactive dialogues, consultations, and commissioned studies.
Targeted submissions and recommendations produced by the Global Detention Project, often in collaboration with partner organisations, for regional and international human rights monitoring mechanisms, treaty review bodies, interactive dialogues, consultations, and commissioned studies.
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 […]
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. […]
Trinidad and Tobago: Joint Submission to the Universal Periodic Review
Since 2018 Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) has experienced unprecedented flows of migrants and asylum seekers from Venezuela, many of them entering via irregular channels. The country’s legislation, however, treats irregular entry as a criminal offence and it continues to lack asylum-specific legislation, leaving all irregular arrivals vulnerable to arrest and detention upon arrival. Together with our partner in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Human Rights Centre, we highlighted shared concerns regarding the country’s immigration detention policies and practices to the Universal Periodic Review Working Group–and called for important changes to ensure respect for non-nationals’ rights. […]
Thailand: Joint Submission to the Universal Periodic Review
Despite legal safeguards and stated commitments to protect migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers—including those in detention—Thailand’s treatment of these groups continues to fall short of international standards. Together with our partner, the Cross Cultural Foundation, we raised multiple concerns with the Universal Periodic Review’s Working Group, urging critical reforms to the country’s detention policies and practices and broader compliance with its international human rights obligations. […]
Cyprus: Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
In a new submission, the Global Detention Project has urged the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to demand that Cyprus end its harmful migrant detention policies–which include the continued use of police holding cells; arbitrary and de facto detention in Pournara Reception Centre; and prison-like detention conditions in Menoyia Detention Centre. The […]
Serbia: Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
In a joint report with Collective Aid, the GDP has highlighted serious and systemic concerns regarding Serbia’s immigration detention policies and practices–including routine use of arbitrary, ad hoc, detention; inadequate access to justice and assistance; the detention of vulnerable groups; and poor detention conditions. In light of the Committee’s Joint General Recommendation no.39 (/no. 8 […]
