Country: Euro-Mediterranean region
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Over 250 organisations urge the EU to reject the new Deportation Regulation
On 11 March 2025, the European Commission unveiled a proposal for a new Return Regulation, meant to replace the existing Return Directive. Behind this technocratic title, however, the proposal marks a deep and dangerous shift in EU migration policy — one that prioritises deportation, detention, and surveillance over protection, dignity, and rights. Avocats Sans Frontières…
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The Permament Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) on Migrants’ rights
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) returns to Palermo for its 56th international session, dedicated to the systematic human rights violations committed against migrants. Over three days, jurists, experts, activists, and witnesses from the Maghreb, Europe, and Africa will present evidence, analyses, and testimonies on preventable shipwrecks, arbitrary detentions, torture, and the criminalization of solidarity. Founded…
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Combating discrimination and structural racism: The TACKLE project
In the Euro-Mediterranean region, a deeply troubling trend has emerged in recent years: racist and security-driven discourse and policies are spreading and multiplying, creating a hostile and harmful environment for racialized people, people on the move, and their allies (human rights defenders, activists). A recent report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)…
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ASF Releases its 2024 Annual Report: Standing up for Human Rights in a Changing World
Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) is today releasing its 2024 Annual Report, which pays tribute to those who, across the world, put their freedom – and sometimes their lives – on the line to defend fundamental rights.
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ExPEERience Talk #17 – Business and Human Rights in Morocco: Complex Dynamics of Power and Responsibility
Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) and the Rabat Social Studies Institute (RSSI) invite you to a webinar devoted to the presentation of the results of the report “Agricultural and agri-food companies in Morocco: a continuum of human rights violations and respect”, the result of an in-depth survey carried out among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in…
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ExPEERience Talk #16 – Morocco and Tunisia: How Do Citizens Perceive Minor Offences and Alternatives to Prison?
In Morocco and Tunisia, criminal laws continue to punish behaviour linked to precariousness, marginalisation, or activism. As part of the Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty, Status and Activism, Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) has conducted two national surveys (in Morocco and Tunisia) on the perception of minor offences and alternative sentences. To share these surveys, ASF invites…
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Call for project proposals: Promoting actions to fight racial discrimination and structural racism
In the context of the TACKLE project, We are launching a call for projects addressed to civil society organisations who are active in promoting actions to fight racial discrimination and structural racism.
