The ASGI report, edited by the Sciabaca & Oruka project, detailing legal disputes arising from Italian-Tunisian cooperation on migration, is published in four languages. Cooperation between Italy and Tunisia on migration has significantly intensified in recent years, with Tunisia assuming a pivotal role as a transit country. Policies restricting mobility have been refined through mutually […]
July 11 – Restrictions on mobility in Tunisia: litigation experiences
In Tunisia, as well as in Libya, policies financed and endorsed by Italy and the European Union to control mobility lead to severe violations of migrant rights. During this training, we will explore legal strategies tested by civil society to challenge these policies and address resulting violations. We will discuss these issues with ASGI lawyers […]
Assisted ‘voluntary’ return programs. Perspectives and opportunities for litigation
Program 3pm – 3:30pm IOM accountability in shaping and implementing externalization policies. Cathryn Costello, Professor of Global Refugee and Migration Law at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. 3:30pm – 4pm Lawfulness of European funding for AVR from transit countries. Legal framework and remedies at the EU level. Andreina De Leo, PhD researcher, […]
One year on from the start of the crisis, violations of migrants’ rights continue in Tunisia
More than a year after the President of the Republic of Tunisia’s statement following a meeting of the National Security Council linking the presence of migrants to “a plot to alter the demographic composition of Tunisia”, systematic violations and racist and xenophobic campaigns targeting sub-Saharan migrants in the country continue unabated. The policies of successive […]
#3 – REACT Rights in practice. Push-backs at sea: how and when to claim compensatory damages
Claiming damages for pushbacks to Libya operated by Italian ships or coordinated by Italy and other related actions. What it is about For years, the Italian government has been responsible for pushbacks of refugees, asylum seekers and third country nationals trying to leave Libya to reach European shores. The behavior of Italian authorities has changed […]
Deadly policies in the Mediterranean: stop the shipwrecks caused off the coast of Tunisia
For two years now, the number of shipwrecks and disappearances of boats of people on the move trying to reach Italy happening close to the Tunisian coast has been increasing. According to figures from the FTDES (Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights), between the beginning of the year and the end of November 2022, […]
A video to tell about our transnational strategies to counter EU externalization policies in Africa
Within the framework of the Sciabaca&Oruka project, ASGI has been working for several years in collaboration with Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) Tunisia, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and the Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI-Nigeria) to defend the rights of people moving along migration routes from Africa to Europe. Here is the video […]
#1 React – Rights in practice. Violations of the principle of non-refoulement in the so-called assisted voluntary returns
What it is about The programmes of assisted voluntary return are a tool used by European governments in the context of externalisation policies. As a response to the blockade created in transit countries such as Libya, Niger and Tunisia, programmes are funded to encourage the return of migrant people to their home countries. Such programmes […]
Journalist appeals to the ECHR: knowing how public funds are used in Libya is a legal right
After being refused information by the Italian Ministry of the Interior, the Administrative Court and the Council of State, freelance journalist and member of the International Federation of Journalists Sara Creta, supported by ASGI lawyers, lodges an appeal before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to enforce Article 10 of the ECHR Convention. In […]
International Conference: Freedom of movement in West Africa and from the sub-region to Europe
What remains of the right to leave any country including one’s own after externalization policies? ASGI, in the framework of the Oruka Project, is organising on 29 September 2022 an international conference entitled “Freedom of Movement in West Africa and from the Subregion to Europe: What remains of the right to leave any country, including […]
