During the four-year period 2016-2019, more than 4.6 million men, women, and children fled or otherwise departed Venezuela because of burgeoning political and economic crises. According to the UNHCR, some 4,000 and 5,000 Venezuelan nationals were leaving the country every day, mainly travelling on foot to neighbouring countries like Colombia, Peru, or Ecuador; thousands of […]
Andorra: Covid-19 and Detention
The tiny country of Andorra, located in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, has one of the highest percentages of international migrants in the world, which as of 2017 accounted for more than 50 percent of the country’s population of some 80,000. To date, the GDP has not identified any dedicated immigration removal facilities, and […]
Belgium Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Belgium Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Belgium, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Belgium Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Belgium: Country Page Report: Immigration Detention in Belgium: Covid-19 Puts the Breaks on an Expanding Detention System Book: Immigration Detention in the European […]
Croatian Interior Ministry Covid-19 Letter to the Global Detention Project, 7 August 2020
Croatia Interior Ministry Covid-19 Letter to the Global Detention Project, 7 August 2020 […]
Belgium: Covid-19 and Detention
According to an international organisation official who asked to remain anonymous, but whose identity was verified by the GDP, while no moratorium on new immigration detention orders was established, fewer detention orders have been issued since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Director-General of the Immigration Office (IO) and the Minister for Asylum and […]
Croatia Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Croatia Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Croatia, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Croatia Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Croatia: Country Page Croatia: Interior Ministry Covid-19 Letter to the Global Detention Project, 7 August 2020 Joint Submission to the Universal Periodic Review: […]
Ježevo Reception Centre for Foreigners from report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture 2020 visit to Croatia)
Ježevo Reception Centre for Foreigners (Read full CPT report)44. The CPT’s delegation visited the Ježevo Reception Centre for Foreigners, the largest of the three pre-removal facilities for the administrative detention of foreigners in the country,51 for the first time since 2007. The establishment consists of two residential units (one of which is for vulnerable groups). […]
Croatia: Covid-19 and Detention
Responding to the Global Detention Project’s Covid-19 survey, the Croatian Interior Ministry provided detailed information about measures that have been adopted in reception centres hosting asylum seekers. They also provided some limited information about Covid-19 procedures adopted for cases involving police interaction with “illegal migrants and aliens.” However, the ministry gave no specific information concerning […]
Poland Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Poland Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Poland, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Poland Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Poland: Country Page Poland: COVID-19 Updates Report: Immigration Detention in Poland: Systematic Family Detention and Lack of Individualised Assessment […]
Poland: Covid-19 and Detention
Although the number of confirmed cases continues to rise in Poland, authorities have continued to refuse to issue a moratorium on new immigration detention orders (this was previously confirmed by the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights in early July, see 8 July update). According to an international organisation who asked to remain anonymous, but whose […]
