🚨 BVMN’s UN Advocacy Team is seeking dedicated volunteers to join us as UN Advocacy Officers!

📝 Apply here: borderviolence.eu/volunteer-ap...

⏰ Deadline: 31/03/2025

🚨 This week, we participated in negotiations at the 58th UN Human Rights Council on the Draft Resolution on Human Rights Defenders & New Technologies, pushing for stronger recognition of migrant rights defenders, who face surveillance, hacking, threats & doxxing across Europe.

Whilst recognised as a likely under-estimate of the true picture, the UN/IOM Missing Migrants Project recorded 82 deaths in the English Channel last year - 14 of whom were children.

This is more than triple the deaths in 2023 and is a direct result of the lack of safe and regular migration routes.

Disappointing news today from Croatia regarding our 2021
@lhreports.bsky.social et. al. Masked Men investigation:

The State Attorney's Office concluded (3+ years later) that there is no reasonable suspicion that the officers "tortured migrants or treated them cruelly"

www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...

In the two most recent rulings related to pushback incidents, the ECHR confirmed that Greece systematically pushes people back at its borders. The rulings are both a success and a setback. Read our full statement via the link below.

borderviolence.eu/reports/bvmn...

🚨 The #BorderViolenceMonitoringNetwork has released its joint #TrialMonitoring report on the Homayoun Sabetara trial in Greece 🇬🇷

The report highlights violations with #fairtrial standards including access to interpretation and right to cross-examination.

borderviolence.eu/reports/the-...

Rights court delivers 'shocking' verdict in Greek pushback case
euobserver.com/migration/ar...

Today, the European Court of Human Rights is expected to issue two landmark judgements on #pushbacks in #Greece.
euobserver.com/migration/ar...

Over the last 24 hours, #MissionWingsFoundation in #Bulgaria has reported the deaths of two people on the move, including the Border Patrol’s active obstruction of attempts to reach a boy who was in critical condition but still alive at the time.

1/3 🟠 The Border Violence Monitoring Network October report is now online.

borderviolence.eu/reports/balk...

With contributions from our member organisations, partners and working groups, this edition covers, among other things:

❌ Transit reception centers in Serbia not reopening for the winter

Today, Border criminologies, Mobile Infor Team, and BVMN present evidence on ongoing human rights violations in Greek pre-removal detention centres to the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). Read more here:👇🏼

www.mobileinfoteam.org/cpt-submissi...

The 🇪🇺 Committee of Ministers had an exchange of views with the EU Commissioner for Human Rights in which he raised concerned with the securitisation of borders, the instrumentalisation of #migration and use of #pushbacks.
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

University of Leeds is offering #scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).

#ScholarshipOpportunity

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...