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Frontex' European blackmail over migrants’ ‘voluntary’ returns - Border violence
Frontex' European blackmail over migrants’ ‘voluntary’ returns - Border violence
Criminalisation
Rhodos Trial Monitoring - 3 March 2026
Rhodos Trial Monitoring - 3 March 2026
Criminalisation Report 2024
Criminalisation Report 2024
Rooted in narratives that associate movement with criminality and threat, criminalisation is a phenomenon which views migration as an issue of national security and criminal law, while completely ignoring the need for safeguarding rights and providing protection. Within this logic, ‘migration management’ becomes synonymous with increased border fortification and securitisation, violence, control, punishment, and deterrence, criminalising the very act of seeking safety. This report, building on BVMN’s and member organisations’ previous work, documents the evolving landscape of criminalisation across multiple regions. By examining both formal and informal trends, it seeks to highlight how state and EU-level policies and practices frame violations as ‘necessary’ security measures and actively criminalise both movement and solidarity.
Invisible Borders Podcast
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Podcast · Border Violence Monitoring Network · The technology and defence industry is deeply embedded in the EU's border policy, benefiting from increasingly hostile approaches to migration. As governments invest billions in border surveillance technologies, the consequences are felt most acutely by people seeking safety and a dignified life. This podcast emerges from a two-year project led by the Border Violence Monitoring Network, in collaboration with I Have Rights, Collective Aid, Mission Wings, and other Network members. The research examines how expanding surveillance infrastructures are experienced by people on the move — at borders and along migration routes. Alongside an accompanying dossier, the podcast explores the lived realities behind Europe’s border technologies and the human cost of a rapidly expanding surveillance regime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Education Podcast · Series · The technology and defence industry is deeply embedded in the EU's border policy, benefiting from increasingly hostile approaches to migration. As governments invest billions in border surveillance te…
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Monthly reports
BVMN Monthly Report - December 2025
BVMN Monthly Report - December 2025
Special report - Criminalisation - November 2025
Special report - Criminalisation - November 2025
Our Analysis
When Monitoring Fails: Independent Monitoring Mechanisms and Systemic Border Violence under the EU Migration Pact - Border violence
When Monitoring Fails: Independent Monitoring Mechanisms and Systemic Border Violence under the EU Migration Pact - Border violence
How the EU’s New Pact Undermines the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors
How the EU’s New Pact Undermines the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors
Submissions to the UN
BVMN at CERD/CMW committee
BVMN at CERD/CMW committee
UN Commissioner for Human Rights highlights BVMN's monitoring work
UN Commissioner for Human Rights highlights BVMN's monitoring work
On 15 July 2025, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published its study on human rights monitoring in the context of migration. The study was in response to Human Rights Council resolution 57/14, which sought to collect good and promising practices on how to integrate monitoring into migration governance. The study directly mentions the Border Violence Monitoring Network as examples of monitoring work, especially in the contexts of restricted access, criminalisation, limitation of monitoring in remote areas, and the challenges of influencing decision-makers. On top of formal consultations with the OHCHR in support for the preparation of the study, the Network also submitted a policy memo and answers to some questions raised by the Office of the Commissioner on the use of border technologies in the context of migration. Our submissions are available for download here.
Newsletter
News from Europe's borders - January 2026
News from Europe's borders - January 2026
Legal Subsmissions
Third Party Submission: Mohamed Ahmed v Bulgaria
Third Party Submission: Mohamed Ahmed v Bulgaria
Third Party Submission: A. A. N. and others v Greece
Third Party Submission: A. A. N. and others v Greece
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