Theme
Migration
and Asylum
Human mobility has steadily shrunk in the Euro-Mediterranean region over the recent years. So has the ability for civil society organisations in the region to promote and protect the human rights of migrants and refugees. Since 2020, the use of forced returns and refoulements across international borders has continued to increase: almost 50,000 people were intercepted in the Central Mediterranean in 2022 and returned to Libya or Tunisia. And the European Union Pact on Migration and Asylum has only confirmed its perception of migration as a threat to its internal stability.
Latest Publications
The human rights cost of the new EU Return Regulation!
EuroMed Rights, together with its members and partners, ARCI, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, CNCD-11.11.11, Foundation for the Promotion of Rights (Algeria), the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), KISA, La Cimade, LDH France,
Rights Groups Warn Against Designating Egypt as a Safe Country of Origin
The undersigned organizations find the European Commission’s April 16, 2025 proposal to establish a Union-wide list of “safe countries of origin” and to include Egypt among them incompatible with the
Stop considering Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco “safe” countries!
Today, the European Commission is proposing to establish a first EU list of safe countries of origin, including Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. EuroMed Rights strongly opposes the concept of “safe country of origin”
Three years since the activation of the Temporary Protection Directive: from emergency to longer-term solutions
Brussels, Belgium, 4 March 2025 Today marks three years since the EU activated the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), which provided a safe pathway to protection for millions1 of people fleeing