Comoros

Detains migrants or asylum seekers?

Unknown

Has laws regulating migration-related detention?

Unknown

Refugees

12

2022

Asylum Applications

5

2022

International Migrants

12,496

2020

Population

900,000

2023

Overview

Types of facilities used for migration-related detention
Administrative Ad Hoc Criminal Unknown

24 March 2021 – Comoros

Comoros is a small country comprising a set of islands off the southeast coast of Africa, located between Madagascar to the east and Tanzania to the West. It also shares maritime borders with Mozambique, Seychelles, and the French overseas territory Mayotte. One of the smallest countries in the world, with an estimated population of less […]

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Dormitories inside Moroni prison © Faïza Soulé Youssouf (Mayotte la 1ere, “L'actualité régionale 16 Février,” 16 February 2021, https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/mayotte/l-actualite-regionale-16-fevrier-935446.html)
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DETENTION STATISTICS

Total Migration Detainees: Flow + Stock (year)
Not Available
2019

DETAINEE DATA

Total Number of Children Placed in Immigration Detention (Year)
0
2017

DETENTION CAPACITY

ALTERNATIVES TO DETENTION

ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT DATA

PRISON DATA

Criminal Prison Population (Year)
225
2019
191
2017
145
2016
150
2009
200
1998
Percentage of Foreign Prisoners (Year)
7.7
2014
Prison Population Rate (per 100,000 of National Population)
19
2016
21
2009
30
1998

POPULATION DATA

Population (Year)
900,000
2023
900,000
2020
International Migrants (Year)
12,496
2020
12,504
2019
International Migrants as Percentage of Population (Year)
1.44
2020
Refugees (Year)
12
2022
27
2021
0
2016
Asylum Applications (Year)
5
2022
Stateless Persons (Year)
0
2022

SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA & POLLS

MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

Does the Country Detain People for Migration, Asylum, or Citizenship Reasons?
Unknown
2023
Does the Country Have Specific Laws that Provide for Migration-Related Detention?
Unknown
2023

GOVERNANCE SYSTEM

Legal Tradition(s)
Muslim law
2017
Civil law
2017

LEGAL & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

GROUNDS FOR MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

LENGTH OF MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION INSTITUTIONS

PROCEDURAL STANDARDS & SAFEGUARDS

DETENTION MONITORS

> National human rights monitoring bodies

> National Preventive Mechanisms (Optional Protocol to UN Convetion against Torture)

> Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

> Governmental monitoring bodies

> International detention monitoring

TRANSPARENCY

READMISSION/RETURN/EXTRADITION AGREEMENTS

COVID-19

HEALTH CARE

COVID-19 DATA

INTERNATIONAL TREATIES

International Treaties Ratified
Ratification Year
Observation Date
CAT, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
2017
2017
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child
1993
2017
CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
1994
2017
ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
2004
2017
CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2016
2016
Ratio of relevant international treaties ratified
Ratio: 5/19
Ratio of Complaints Procedures Accepted
Observation Date
0/3
2017

NON-TREATY-BASED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Relevant Recommendations from the UN Universal Periodic Review
Observation Date
No 2009
2017
No 2014
2017
Yes 2019

REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Regional Legal Instruments
Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)
Observation Date
ACHPR, African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights 1986
1986
2017
ACRWC, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 2004
2004
2017
APRW, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) 2004
2004
2017

DETENTION COSTS

OUTSOURCING

FOREIGN SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR DETENTION OPERATIONS