Description The Act no. 2024-42 of 26 January 2024 to control immigration and improve integration, also called “asylum and immigration law” was adopted on 19 December 2023. The main aim of this immigration law proposed by Gerald Darmanin is to “step up removals of illegal immigrants”. It includes a reform of the asylum system to…
On the occasion of the Western Balkans Conference in Tirana on December 6 2022, we publish here the “Belgrade Conference Joint Statement on Open Borders: Building Alliances for the Right to Migrate!” Source: Nidžara Ahmetašević The declaration opposes the externalisation of borders and the expansion of border protection, and calls for a human right to…
(Published also in Bulgarian here. We thank Deian Vladov for the courtesy translation) “The inrush of the COVID-19 pandemic has completely shifted away the focus from human rights and, in the context of survival, the fight for rights is now harder and even “inhumane”. “The right to health is not contrary to human rights altogether…
Earlier this summer, the CLA published the report “Applying Engagement-Based Alternatives to Detention of Migrants in Bulgaria: Opportunities and Challenges”. The report is based on the work implementing the 2-year project “Protecting Migrants with Precarious Status: Decreasing the use of Detention and Applying Community-Based Alternatives”, funded by the European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM). From…
Detention of migrants is a practice used extensively by authorities across Europe, even though “the use of detention for the purpose of removal should be limited […] and if the application of less coercive measures would not be sufficient,” according to the ‘Return Directive’. The European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM), co-created by the…
By Borislav Dimitrov (Penkov) Last month, the Madrid City Council announced its plans to work on preventing the detention of migrants in irregular situation in the Identification and Expulsion Center of the city. It published a working paper on the issue, which was based on the conclusions drafted by a working group consisting of various…
“Center for Legal Aid – “Voice in Bulgaria” (CLA), in partnership with Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights (BLHR), begins work on a new project focused on helping migrants at risk integrate into the community instead of being detained. The project is called: “Protecting migrants with precarious status: decreasing the use of detention and applying community-based…