Over the past years, pushbacks have been commonly used and tacitly accepted across EU’s external and internal borders as means of border management. While human rights and humanitarian actors have been calling the EU to effectively address the rights violations at its borders, the question remains – whether the long awaited, much debated and finally adopted EU Pact on Asylum and Migration will put an end to pushbacks?

Keen to understand the disconnect between legal frameworks and realities on the ground? Read PRAB’s newest report:
https://drc.ngo/media/bjqfay25/prab-report-ix-january-to-october-2024.pdf

Protecting Rights at Borders (PRAB) is an initiative of protection and legal aid groups that focus on ensuring human rights are upheld at the EU’s external and internal borders. The members of PRAB have a well-established field presence in the countries of operation, which allows them direct access to victims who have experienced pushbacks and significant experience in strategic litigation. More information and previous reports are available at: https://pro.drc.ngo/resources/news/protecting-rights-at-borders-prab/

The PRAB project has been supported by the European Philanthropic Initiative for Migration (EPIM), a collaborative initiative of the Network of European Foundations (NEF). The sole responsibility for the project lies with the organisers and the content may not necessarily reflect the positions of EPIM, NEF or EPIM’s Partner Foundations.

PRAB is also supported, in part, by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the Europe and Eurasia Programme of the Open Society Foundations.

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Migrants seeking to cross European borders are systematically being pushed back. The eighth report from Protecting Rights at Borders (PRAB) once again documents how illegal pushbacks and rights violations continue to be widespread and have evolved into an accepted tool for border management. Read it yourself: PRAB VIII “Pushbacks at Europe’s Border”. 

PRAB VIII “Pushbacks at Europe’s borders” in key figures: 

• Illegal pushbacks and rights violations continue to be widespread and have evolved into an accepted tool for border management
• 8 403 pushbacks documented in 8 EU countries over the past 4 months
• 1 out of every 4 pushbacks includes a child
• Majority of the people pushed back are from Afghanistan (47%)
• Pushbacks leave individuals stranded and stripped of their belongings
• Reports of violence, beatings, and being held in crammed places, for hours and days, without access to their basic needs

You can read the full PRAB report here.

Previous reports are available here https://pro.drc.ngo/resources/documents/prab-reports/  

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The Protecting Rights at Borders (PRAB) initiative is formed by protection and legal aid organisations focusing on human rights compliance at the EU’s external and internal borders. The PRAB partners have solid field presence in the countries of operation enabling direct access to victims of pushbacks, as well as longstanding experience in strategic litigation. More information and previous reports are available at: https://pro.drc.ngo/resources/news/protecting-rights-at-borders-prab/  

The PRAB project has been supported by the European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM), a collaborative initiative of the Network of European Foundations (NEF). The sole responsibility for the project lies with the organisers and the content may not necessarily reflect the positions of EPIM, NEF or EPIM’s Partner Foundations.

PRAB is also supported, in part, by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the Europe and Eurasia Programme of the Open Society Foundations.

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