For over a decade, the GDP has relentlessly pushed states to provide better migration detention data, in particular in the European Union, where Eurostat maintains a wealth of statistics on a range of key immigration enforcement measures—except detention. Until now. In June, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted proposed reforms to […]
Detention Data
Samoa Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Samoa Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Samoa, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Samoa Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Samoa: Country Page Samoa: COVID-19 Updates Samoa: International Law […]
Mongolia Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Mongolia Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Mongolia, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Mongolia Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Mongolia: Country Page Mongolia: COVID-19 Updates Mongolia: International Law […]
Bahrain: Covid-19 and Detention
Responding to the Global Detention Project’s Covid-19 survey, Migrant-Rights.org, an advocacy organisation that aims to advance the rights of migrant workers, reported that in Bahrain, due to Covid-19, the Ministry of Interior issued a circular ordering authorities not to detain migrants because of their irregular status until the end of the year. Another circular has […]
Mongolia: Covid-19 and Detention
Mongolia has been lauded for its efforts to contain the coronavirus despite having a long, porous border with China. As of 23 September, there had been 313 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and no deaths. However, there appears to be no publicly available information indicating the impact of the virus on migrants or asylum seekers, or […]
Samoa: Covid-19 and Detention
Having closed its borders in March to prevent a domestic outbreak, as of October 2020 Samoa remained one of a small number of countries that had yet to report any Covid-19 cases (along with other Pacific island nations, including Palau [see 29 September update on this platform]). Although the country is a signatory to the […]
Bangladesh Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Bangladesh Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Bangladesh, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Bangladesh Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Bangladesh: Country Page Bangladesh: COVID-19 Updates News: Places of Quarantine as Places of Detention […]
Micronesia Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Micronesia Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Micronesia, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Micronesia Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Micronesia: Country Page Micronesia: COVID-19 Updates Micronesia: International Law […]
Bangladesh: Covid-19 and Detention
A controversial refugee settlement set up by the Bangladesh government on the island of Bhasan Char has been under intense scrutiny since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic because of claims by government officials that refugees confined to the site are being kept there as a Covid-19 quarantine measure. This scrutiny has intensified after women […]
Micronesia: Covid-19 and Detention
The Federated States of Micronesia, which as of 25 August 2020 had no confirmed cases of COVID-19, does not have national asylum legislation and is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention. According to the 2020 U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report, human traffickers target women from Micronesia for different forms of exploitation. As of […]