Global Detention Project Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers 27th Session (4-13 September 2017) List of issues under the simplified reporting procedure – Libya Geneva, August 2016 Issues concerning immigration detention The Global Detention Project (GDP) welcomes the opportunity to provide information relevant to the list of issues under the simplified […]
Executive Committee
Executive Committee Roberta Cecchetti, President George Kourous (UN Food and Agriculture Organization), Vice President Yves Klein (Monfrini Bittol Klein), Secretary Pierre Simon (Processus Immobilier), Treasurer Meghna Abraham (Amnesty International), Board Member Megan Gray Paterson-Brown (Webster University) Seta Hadeshian (Middle East Council of Churches) Luke McCallin (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Fernand Melgar (Filmmaker/Climage.ch) Alejandro […]
Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: Denmark
Global Detention Project Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 76th Session (11 – 29 September 2017) Consideration of State Report – Denmark (fifth period report) Geneva, 10 August 2017 Issues concerning immigration detention The Global Detention Project (GDP) welcomes the opportunity to provide information for consideration of […]
July 2017 Newsletter
GLOBAL DETENTION PROJECT NEWSLETTER JULY 2017 NEW FROM THE GDP Global Detention Project Annual Report 2016 Available here. Joint Submission with Migrant-rights.org to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: United Arab Emirates. Read the submission here. PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS Kidnapped, Trafficked, Detained? The Implications of Non-state Actor Involvement in Immigration […]
Global Detention Project Annual Report 2016
The Global Detention Project completed its second full year as an independent association in 2016. This annual report details the GDP’s key accomplishments and developments during the year. […]
Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD): United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates Global Detention Project – Migrant-rights.org Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 93 Session (31 Jul 2017 – 25 Aug 2017) Geneva, July 2017 The Global Detention Project (GDP) is an independent research centre based in Geneva, Switzerland, that investigates the use of detention as […]
Funders
Funders The Global Detention Project (GDP) is an independent non-profit association under Swiss law. It receives funding and in-kind support from members, charitable foundations, academic institutions, and private individuals. Among the institutions that have generously supported the GDP, including those that provided support when the GDP was based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2007-2014), are: […]
Submission to the Council of Europe’s European Committee on Legal Co-operation
In follow up to participation in the Council of Europe hearing on the draft legal instrument codifying the existing standards related to the conditions of administrative detention of migrants, held in Strasbourg 22-23 June 2017 the GDP submitted written comments to European Committee on Legal Co-operation on 12 July 2017. See details on the […]
June 2017 Newsletter
Global Detention Project Newsletter June 2017 NEW FROM THE GDP Immigration detention in Macedonia The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has been an important transit country along the Balkan migration route, which has made it a critical country to European migration policy and debate. Read the report here. Submission to the UN Committee […]
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR): France
France Universal Period Review – 3rd Cycle Submission to the Universal Periodic Review by the Global Detention Project (Geneva, Switzerland) 29th Session of the UPR Working Group, January-February 2018 Submitted on 29 June 2017 The Global Detention Project (GDP) is an independent research centre based in Geneva, Switzerland, that investigates the use of […]
