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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

Solidarity networks: for the dignity and justice of the families of missing or deceased migrants
On this day of 6 February, which marks CommemorAction[1], EuroMed Rights publishes a map of the actors in the Mediterranean region who are involved in the search for missing persons

In the face of growing authoritarian tendencies against people on the move, we must defend a migration policy based on human rights
On the occasion of International Migrants Day, the signatory organizations oppose security policies that undermine the fundamental rights of people on the move in the Mediterranean region. While this day,

Written contribution on the phenomenon of missing migrants in the Mediterranean to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants
On 29 November 2024, EuroMed Rights, in partnership with 12 civil society organisations, presented a detailed analysis of the phenomenon of missing migrants to the Special Rapporteur on the human
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Women's Rights and Gender Justice
EuroMed Rights strives to actively promote the rights of women and women’s participation in public life as well as promoting gender equality in the Euro-Med region.
Accountability, Justice and Space for Civil Society
In recent years, many governments across the Euro-Mediterranean region have tended to adopt ever more repressive measures and policies to curtail civil society activism and muzzle critical voices.
Democracy and Freedoms
The status of democracy and fundamental freedoms in the Euro-Mediterranean region has continued to backslide or remained at a negative status quo over the past three years.
Economic and Social Rights
A new regional programme of EuroMed Rights focuses on economic and social rights (ESR), building on our extensive work in Tunisia over the last years. The Network strives to put social justice concerns at the heart of its work.