A recent report from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) reveals the deplorable conditions in Italy’s pre-removal centres. The rights body highlights both the disrespect of...
Italy + 1 more
Italy + 1 more
A recent report from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) reveals the deplorable conditions in Italy’s pre-removal centres. The rights body highlights both the disrespect of...
Egypt + 1 more
Despite the spiralling war in nearby Sudan—where reports of massacres and widespread starvation have grabbed global attention—Egypt remains poised to adopt a new asylum law that will threaten access...
Egypt + 2 more
INTRODUCTION As the conflict in Sudan continues to spiral out of control with recent reports of massacres and widespread starvation, Egypt is poised to adopt a new asylum law that will threaten...
Dominican Rep. + 1 more
Guest Post by Bridget Wooding (OBMICA) On 2 October, the Dominican Republic’s Migration Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior and Police announced an upscaled operation “to deport 10,000...
Croatia + 5 more
Croatia’s brutal treatment and pushbacks of migrants and asylum seekers along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina has been widely documented for several years, with the most recent reports...
Türkiye + 2 more
A consortium of European media outlets working in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports have released a series of reports revealing the abuses refugees and other migrants face in EU-financed...
Lithuania + 1 more
As part of its collaboration with the Global Detention Project-sponsored Global Immigration Detention Observatory initiative, the Vilnius-based Human Rights Monitoring Institute, issued an...
Thailand + 1 more
Thailand’s recent decision to withdraw its reservation to a key provision in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child appears to support its status as a “champion country” of the Global Compact...
Iraq + 2 more
Numerous news outlets and human rights groups have in recent months reported on Iraq’s increasing detention and deportation of Syrian refugees, in a breach of its non-refoulement obligations...
During a recent review of Senegal’s implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers, the Committee on Migrant Workers noted a series of persistent challenges that migrants,...
Panama + 6 more
Panama’s government is planning to ramp up deportations of migrants who reach the country irregularly through the Darién Gap at the border between Colombia and Panama. The jungle trek is a highly...
Ethiopia + 2 more
Over the past year, numerous reports have surfaced about the detention and separation of children in Ethiopia who are fleeing conflicts in nearby countries, particularly Sudan and Eritrea. In a...
Bosnia and Herzegovina + 1 more
1. INTRODUCTION This submission for the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been prepared by the Global Detention Project (GDP), a non-profit...
Tunisia + 2 more
With financial support from the European Union, Tunisia is systematically undertaking anti-migrant and racially motivated operations, including “desert dumps” and unlawful arbitrary expulsions of...
Egypt + 2 more
This document is intended to provide a brief overview of a number of pressing violations facing refugees and migrants in Egypt for consideration by the Committee on Migrant Workers in preparing the...
Ethiopia + 1 more
This submission reviews progress on Ethiopia’s efforts to protect the human rights of child migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers since the country submitted its “Combined sixth and seventh reports”...
Ghana + 1 more
Despite calls from UNHCR and several rights groups to cease unlawful expulsions of people escaping the conflict in Burkina Faso, Ghana continues to detain and deport refugees fleeing that country’s...
Malaysia + 2 more
Malaysia has been repeatedly criticised for having one of the world’s more abusive and punitive immigration detention systems. Yet the government continues to fail to address the international...
South Africa + 3 more
Refugee rights groups are pursuing legal action against South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs in response to what it claims are unlawful arrests, detentions, and deportations of new asylum...
Letter from the Executive Director and President In 2023, the GDP marked an important milestone: 18 years of operations—first as a student-led research project, launched in 2006 at Geneva’s Graduate...