Legal Aanalysis on possible illegitimacy profiles regarding the recent decision of the Italian Government to reintroduce controls at the Italian-Slovenian border On October 18th, the Italian government communicated to European institutions and associated countries the reintroduction of border … [Leggi di più...]
Medea is a strategic action based on field research, strategic litigation and advocacy aimed at defending the rights of foreign nationals arriving in Italy through internal borders and the Balkan route.
The project focuses its attention on internal national borders with France, Slovenia, Austria, and Greece (in arrivals at Adriatic ports) and also keeps a broad look at external borders along the Balkan route through monitoring actions that result in advocacy and strategic litigation. An essential role of the work focuses on national and international networking actions instrumental to the knowledge of contexts, constant updating and promotion of shared actions.
The ECtHR condemns Italy to compensate an unaccompanied minor for the reception conditions.
On August 31, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Italy for failing to provide adequate reception and protection to a minor girl from Ghana who had been a victim of previous violence in her home country and in Libya, thereby violating the UN Convention on the Rights of the … [Leggi di più...]
Illegitimacy of informal pushbacks at Adriatic ports and humanitarian visa
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Balkan route, evidence and testimonies confirm chain readmissions. Ministerial liability for compensation for damages
With the recent ruling dated May 9, 2023, the Court of Rome reiterated principles already affirmed in the ruling of the Court of Rome on January 18, 2021, by granting the appeal of a Pakistani citizen. Despite entering Italy on October 17, 2020, and expressing the intent to seek international … [Leggi di più...]
North Macedonia: a Country to Transit or to Escape?
Since 2015 North Macedonia has been consolidated as a transit country along the Balkan route. The data and testimonies collected during the visit carried out by ASGI Medea project from 2 to 9 November 2021 provide a picture of a route that is growing significantly and of a country whose geopolitical … [Leggi di più...]
Do you remember Albania, don’t you? The on-site visit report
The first chapter of the report that traces the mobility from, to and through Albania starting from the onsite visit carried out in 2021 is realized by ASGI within the Medea project, with the collaboration of SOS Diritti and Lungo la Rotta Balcanica. The extract is focused on the emigration … [Leggi di più...]
French-Italian border: people continue to die. Appeal to the authorities
The recent deaths of Fathallah Balafhail, 31 years old of Moroccan origin, found dead in the first days of January 2022 not far from Modane, in France, Ullah Rezwan Sheyzad, 15 years old from Afghanistan, and the person who died in Latte, whose identity cannot be ascertained due to the cause of … [Leggi di più...]
Imagining the Balkans and the Migratory route: in Bosnia “finishes” Europe?
A contribution from Jovana Bogicevic in relation to the externalization processes happening at the border with the European Union and the consequences on people on the move. With the emergence of the new and changing migratory routes in the past years, we have witnessed the emergence of the new … [Leggi di più...]
ASGI’s third party intervention in S.B. and others vs Croatia: strategy and content
On the 8th of December ASGI submitted its third party intervention in support to the S.B. and others vs Croatia case pending in front of the European Court of Human Rights with regards to episodes of push-backs that took place at the border between Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia in October … [Leggi di più...]
Right to enter Italy for those who have been unlawfully pushed back to Bosnia
A foreign citizen who arrived in Trieste in 2020 was denied access to asylum procedures in Italy due to the illegal behavior of the Italian authorities. A foreign citizen, illegally readmitted to Slovenia and then to Bosnia on the basis of the Italy-Slovenia agreement, has the right to … [Leggi di più...]
Adriatic route: information for migrants
The informative flyer for foreign citizens trying to reach Italy through the Adriatic Sea, an initiative of the Adriatic Seaports Network. The Adriatic Seaports Network, of which ASGI is part with SOS Diritti Venezia and the Ambasciata dei Diritti di Ancona, for about three years has built a … [Leggi di più...]
Asylum seekers’stay in transit zones at land borders in the light of their right to personal freedom: the Ilias and Ahmed v. Hungary case
Although detention represents, and has historically represented, an instrument which has been frequently used by the authorities in the management of migratory flows, the issue of the deprivation of freedom of foreign citizens in transit zones has long remained on the sidelines of public … [Leggi di più...]
Direct pushbacks at the airport border crossing points in Milan (Malpensa) and Rome (Fiumicino): an analysis of the data obtained from the authorities
The transit zones of ports and airports are places of particular interest in order to understand the dynamics, political experiments and practices aimed at containing the flow of foreign citizens entering the Italian territory. Direct pushback at the border represents the main instrument provided … [Leggi di più...]
