Kenya is a major destination and transit country for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, as well as one of Africa’s largest refugee-hosting countries. However, growing efforts to securitise migration have left irregular arrivals or those in the country without regular documentation increasingly vulnerable to arrest and detention. The country does not operate dedicated immigration detention […]
CEDAW
Jordan: Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Jordan is a major destination for migrant workers, including tens of thousands of women employed as domestic workers. In a joint submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee), the Global Detention Project (GDP) and our Jordan-based partner, Tamkeen for Legal Aid and Human Rights, highlight the particular vulnerabilities […]
Russia: Joint Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
The Russian Federation has one of the world’s largest networks of migrant detention centres, known as “Centres for Temporary Detention of Foreign Nationals” (CTDFNs). Although migrant labour plays an important role in sustaining the Russian economy, migrants—particularly those from Central Asia and the Caucasus—have increasingly been portrayed as a “security threat”, fuelling xenophobic and discriminatory […]
India: Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
In a joint submission with the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, the GDP highlights concerns to CEDAW regarding the detention, refoulement, and other human rights violations faced by women refugees and migrants in India. […]
Saudi Arabia: Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
ISSUES RELATING TO THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANT WORKERS, ARBITRARY IMMIGRATION DETENTION, AND DEPORTATION (see also, GDP Oral Presentation at Informal Session with CEDAW) Context Detention and Deportation Legal Framework and Discriminatory Policies Migrant Domestic Workers Recommendations [1] Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), “Concluding observations on the combined third and fourth periodic reports of Saudi […]
TURKEY: Joint Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
As Turkey has stepped up immigration controls there have been increasing reports of human rights abuses in detention centres and in other sites along its borders. Women have been subjected to abuses and gender-specific violations, including reports of rape of refugee women in some removal centres as well as humiliating strip searches. […]
