Global Detention Project | Mapping immigration detention around the world

“You don’t feel like you are a human there. Your rights are not respected […] This place is worse than prison. […] People sit there for years. […]” – Testimony of a former detainee A new report from Collective Aid, a Global Detention Project partner in the Balkans, reveals systemic human rights violations at Lukavica Detention Centre, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) sole deten...

Last September, we began receiving messages from people claiming to be detained at the Welisara Detention Centre in Sri Lanka. The detainees came from nearly a dozen countries across Asia and Africa, including Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malaysia, and China. Most had been arrested because of their irregular statuses, and then sent to Welisara, where their cases stagnated and...

In April, after the Democratic Republic of Congo announced the launch of a “temporary reception system for third country nationals,” a group of deportees from the United States arrived, marking the latest expansion of the Trump administration’s massive immigration crackdown and deportation agenda. Upon arrival, the group were placed in a hotel from which they were reportedly ...

Together with Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the Ghana-based Democracy Hub, and the Global Strategic Litigation Council, the Global Detention Project has urged the UN Committee on Migrant Workers to assess the country’s recent agreement with the United States to accept deported third-country nationals, as well as its subsequent detention and removal of these individuals.<...

In February, the UK and Kenya signed a Memorandum of Understanding on “collaborative border security,” reinforcing a bilateral partnership on migration that reflects Kenya’s securitised approach to migration and refugee issues, which includes the use of dozens of police stations and prisons across the country for immigration detention purposes. In contrast, Kenya’s National C...