“Monitoring, advocacy, and sharing of practices to reduce human rights risks arising from the implementation of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum”
Donor – OAK Foundation
Period – July 1, 2025-August 30, 2028.
Brief description
Gradually, the New EU Pact for Migration and Asylum will enter into force in the European Union countries in 2026. Its implementation still has differences and unclear aspects in the member states. That is why our efforts with colleagues from BVMN, MIT, and IHR have been combined in a joint three-year project to monitor specific practices and procedures for the implementation and introduction of the new legislation, focusing on Bulgaria and Greece and their borders, as they are outside the EU. The main objective is again to ensure secure access to protection for people on the move. The main planned activities are:
-advocacy for secure, fair access to asylum;
-research and publication of the results;
– sharing opinions and ideas from conversations, events, and expert assessments and publishing conclusions/results from them;
The planned activities aim to counteract practices and trends already introduced in these countries, such as:
– detention of migrants seeking protection in closed-type controlled centers;
– fast-track asylum procedures;
– limited access for non-governmental organizations and independent monitoring to detention centers, screening areas, and, in fact, to people in transit in the procedure;
On our website, social media channels, and the websites of our partner organizations, we will regularly publish news, results, and updates on the project, including research analyses, monitoring reports, data summaries, and more. Stay tuned!
