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 […]
On 16 April 2021, a round table discussion with Nigerian experts on the changing ways in which trafficked persons are subjugated
On 16 April 2021, the online roundtable “The transformation of the ways in which Nigerian trafficked persons are subjugated for the purpose of sexual exploitation” will be held on Zoom. The event, which will see the presence of Nigerian experts on the topic of trafficking in human beings, is organised by ASGI, Dedalus, Weavers of Hope, Spazi Circolari. […]
Transparency and right to information: the case of public funding in the context of integrated border management in Libya
Diletta Agresta and Armando Maria De Nicola Beyond control: the management of the “border” Both the European Union and its Member States have responded to the challenges posed by global migrations through the adoption of repressive policies, centred on the externalisation of the management of borders to third countries. The objective of such policies is […]
Private companies and Italian government brought to trial for pushback to Libya
Press Conference February 12, 2021 h 12:00, Location: Zoom (Register HERE) Five Eritrean citizens were pushed back illegitimately on July 2nd, 2018 by the Augusta Offshore ship “Asso Ventinove” as part of operations coordinated by the Italian authorities stationed in Libya and with the collaboration of the so-called Libyan Coast Guard. Now they have started […]
“Let’s help them in their home countries”: what’s behind this slogan?
The relationship between EU and ECOWAS and mobility control by Giulia Gasser, Ulrich Stege and Daniele Valeri Let’s help them A glance at the aid Migration management has become a central issue in the relationships between the European Union and the African countries. Whereas in 2000, the Cotonou Agreement dedicated a residual space to this […]
