Migration and Border Violence

GLAN news

Aug 10, 2021

Submission to Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya on EU & its Member States’ Responsibilities

10 August 2021 The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) has made a submission to the United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission on...

Dec 18, 2019

Legal complaint filed against Italy for privatised push-backs to Libya and migrant abuse

GLAN filed a complaint against Italy with the UN Human Rights Committee on behalf of an individual whose journey from Libya was...

Dec 11, 2019

New project: Ending violent 'pushbacks' of refugees and migrants at the Greek-Turkish border

For years, the Greek authorities have been involved in informal, forcible removals (pushbacks) of migrants and asylum-seekers who enter...

Apr 18, 2019

Case filed against Greece in Strasbourg Court over crackdown on humanitarian organisations

Following a two-and-a-half-year legal ordeal in Greek courts, Salam Kamal-Aldeen, founder of the non-profit Team Humanity, has filed an...

Sep 13, 2018

Presentation to German Parliament on Mediterranean abuse & targeting of human rights defenders

GLAN members Dr. Violeta Moreno-Lax and Dr. Itamar Mann appeared before members of the German parliament today, to address migrant...

May 8, 2018

Legal action against Italy over coordination of Libyan Coast Guard pull-backs resulting in migrants

Screengrab from Forensic Oceanography's reconstruction of fatal maritime incident Seventeen survivors of a fatal incident in which a boat...

Apr 15, 2018

Refugee deportations may give rise to Israel's international criminal responsibility

On Sunday, April 15, 2018 GLAN wrote to warn officials from both Israel and Uganda on the possible international criminal legal...

Nov 7, 2017

GLAN teams up with Forensic Architecture to examine migrant push-backs by the Australian navy

GLAN is teaming up with Goldsmiths University’s Centre for Research Architecture and Forensic Architecture to map, visualise and...

Feb 13, 2017

Communication to International Criminal Court requesting investigation of Australia & corporations

GLAN and the Stanford International Human Rights Clinic have submitted a communication to the Office of the Prosecutor at the...

Jul 26, 2016

Refugee camp company in Australia 'liable for crimes against humanity'

The company that has taken over the management of Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime has been warned by international law...