Statements

Authored and led by survivors, the Cotonou Manifesto for Freedom of Movement confronts the global border regime that turns human mobility into a crime. Emerging from the Migration Village at the World Social Forum in Cotonou, it calls for an end to border externalisation, detention and deportation, demands accountability for violence against people on the move, and defends freedom of movement as a fundamental right for all.

Three Years On, the EU-Tunisia Deal Continues to Fuel Human Rights Violations Joint Statement by 46 human rights and humanitarian organizations Three years since the signature of the European Union (EU)-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the agreement has not only failed to guarantee respect for refugees and migrants’ rights, it has fuelled and normalized serious human rights violations and undermined the EU’s leverage to address the deteriorating human rights environ