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
Joint statement: EU ‘safe country’ and return proposals would seriously undermine protection and human dignity
The EU’s recent proposals in the area of migration and asylum risk seriously undermining people’s access to fair and full asylum procedures in Europe. The European Commission’s recent initiatives appear
The EU must stop the digitalisation of the deportation regime and withdraw the new Return Regulation
On March 11, 2025, the European Commission published a new legislative proposal for a ‘Return Regulation’ which is set to expand the detention and deportation of migrant people, including children,
Algeria: Migrants face raids, mass expulsions, and hate speech
In recent years, Algeria’s public sphere has witnessed an alarming rise in hate speech and persistent incitement against migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Migrants face racist rhetoric widely circulated in some
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,