International Detention Coalition (IDC) Updates

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BY MARY CRUSE IDC calls on states to introduce safeguards in advance of the new EU Migration Pact EUROPEAN UNION With preparations underway for the introduction of the EU’s new Migration and Asylum...

“Malaysia should use its final year as a member of the UN Human Rights Council to implement urgently needed reform of its immigration detention policies and practices. We are alarmed by Malaysia’s...

Re: New Thai government has the opportunity for a fresh start on Myanmar Refugees To: Royal Thai Government H.E. Srettha Thavisin, Prime Minister H.E. Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara, Deputy Prime Minister...

Introduction 1 Making the Global Refugee Compact work for children From the 13th to 15th December 2023, the second Global Refugee Forum (GRF) will bring together governments, people with lived...

In June, EU Ministers responsible for Justice and Home Affairs met in Luxembourg to discuss, amongst other issues, reform of the EU’s approach to asylum and migration. Their discussions resulted in...

Written by Elizabeth Alvares IDC Americas Programme Support In August 2022, International Detention Coalition, Asylum Access Mexico, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and the Institute for Women in...

We welcome the 14th European Forum on the rights of the child this year dedicated to ‘Bringing children at the centre: empowering, protecting and including children’, and its focus, amongst other...

In the early hours of 20th April, over 500 Rohingya refugees, including 97 women, 294 men, and 137 children, escaped from a detention centre in Sungai Bakap. It was later confirmed that 7 of those...

In many national contexts the application of alternatives to detention (ATD) remains limited in practice, because detention is applied by default to foreign nationals who have lost the right of...

Written by Diana Martinez Americas Program Officer; Carolina Carreño Americas Childhood Project Officer; Elizabeth Alvares Americas Programme Assistant People seeking asylum who apply for refugee...

Written by Denise Pitcher, Caribbean Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) & Gisele Bonnici, IDC Americas Regional Coordinator In June 2021, IDC’s partner the CCHR was granted a hearing at the...

45 civil society organisations urge EU institutions and national governments to abandon policies that contain people seeking asylum at Europe’s borders and to instead facilitate asylum seekers’...

Les organisations de la société civile soussignées écrivent pour exprimer notre grave préoccupation face aux mauvais traitements généralisés, illégaux et même parfois graves infligés aux migrants aux...

The undersigned civil society organizations write to express our grave concern about widespread, unlawful, and sometimes severe mistreatment of migrants at and around international borders around the...

We, the undersigned organisations, call on Thailand and other governments in the Asia region to protect people fleeing violence and repression in Myanmar. As the situation is Myanmar is rapidly...

As State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), governments have a duty to respect, protect and fulfill the specific obligations related to each child within their jurisdiction,...

by Rachel Tan For the full statement in PDF, please see here. BANGKOK, 26 February 2021 The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA),...