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, […]
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 […]
Nigeria: The risk of re-trafficking and (in)voluntary return of victims of trafficking
By Federica Borlizzi Nigerian women are among the five non-European nationalities most at risk of trafficking. According to the IOM, 80% of the Nigerian women arriving in Italy are likely to be victims of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation [1]. The journey to Europe is usually organized by a “madame” and the victims […]
The Italian Supreme Administrative Court orders the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to release IOM’s financial reports for projects financed by the Italian Government in Libya
ASGI, in the framework of the projects Sciabaca and Oruka, has presented requests to access the financial reports of projects implemented by IOM and other international organizations in Libya.
New EU / IOM program jeopardizes the rights of repatriated Egyptian citizens
After an incubation period of more than a year, on 15 January 2020 the International Organization for Migration announced in Cairo the launch of a program for the protection and return of migrants to Egypt.
Proceedings of the conference “Externalization of Borders and the Role of IOM” are now available
The event, held in Rome on 5 December 2019, was organised by ASGI in cooperation with the Clinica Legale International Protection of Human Rights.