Tag: illegal pushbacks
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Quo vadis Frontex? – Reform, control or abolish?
by Borderline – Europe Panel discussions on the illegal activities of the EU border agency and its glaring control deficit. Criticism of practices that violate human rights has accompanied the “European Border and Coast Guard Agency”, or “Frontex” – since its founding in 2004. From its involvement in illegal pushbacks to its cooperation with the…
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THE BLACK BOOK OF PUSHBACKS
by Border Violence Monitoring Network To coincide with International Migrants Day on 18th December the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) have released a landmark publication on illegal border pushbacks. The ‘Black Book of Pushbacks’ brings together a wealth of evidence on these violations, analysing in detail the way that these brutal acts have become systematised…