La crise climatique au Sahel est bien réelle. Pour des pays et des communautés déjà vulnérables, l’augmentation des températures, le caractère imprévisible des précipitations, des inondations, des sécheresses et la désertification constituent des menaces de plus en plus fortes. Ces…
En 2018, l'Afghanistan a connu une grave sécheresse qui a eu un impact direct sur plus des deux tiers de la population du pays, soit 38 millions de personnes. La sécheresse a entraîné de mauvaises récoltes, l’épuisement des réserves d'eaux…
Le Sahel central est l'une des régions au monde les plus touchées par les conflits en Afrique et l'une des plus vulnérables face aux risques climatiques[1]. Elle se caractérise par des frontières poreuses, des migrations saisonnières et internationales, des communautés…
Sur l'ensemble du continent africain, les effets néfastes des changements climatiques ont intensifié la fréquence et la gravité des aléas soudains et à évolution lente. La région de l'Autorité intergouvernementale pour le développement (IGAD)[1], en particulier, est considérée comme l'une…
In recent years, some States have been pursuing increasingly restrictive policies and practices in order to deter refugees and asylum seekers from reaching their borders. Authors in this issue’s main feature discuss the emergence of these policies of ‘externalisation’, reflect…
International cooperation has always been indispensable to the effective functioning of the international regime for refugee protection. The drafters of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951 Convention) explicitly acknowledged this, recognising that as the challenge of…
Since its emergence in the early 2000s, the term ‘externalisation’ seems to have developed into an umbrella concept encompassing any migration control measure affecting refugees undertaken either unilaterally or multilaterally, either extraterritorially or with extraterritorial effects. Despite its ubiquitous use,…
Time and again, ideas to phase out the right to asylum in its current form circulate among politicians, experts and even academics in a number of European countries. Some believe that the 1951 Refugee Convention is outdated and that the…
As practitioners working for Josoor, the only organisation focused on supporting survivors of pushbacks from Greece and Bulgaria based in Turkey, we systematically document testimonies of survivors and other evidence of human rights violations from the European border regime. Together…
Since its establishment in 2004, Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard – EBCG – Agency) has become an important vehicle for implementing the EU’s externalisation policies. Its arrangements with States of origin and transit are designed to prevent onwards…