Border Violence Monitoring Network

Network of grassroots organizations documenting illegal pushbacks & police violence by EU member state authorities in the Western Balkans and Greece.

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🟠 BVMN’s March report is now online.

https://t.co/Q0oKCS5kLZ

With contributions from our partner organisations & working groups, this special edition explains how specific groups of people on the move are made vulnerable by the systems that are meant to protect them.

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For our blog, Magdalena Rassmann writes about the implementation process of the EU Pact in Greece and Bulgaria, and how both countries have excluded civil society from their process of implementing the Pact.

https://t.co/zzLwy5DAbK

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Big thank you to
@IHaveRights_
@collective_aid
@mobileinfoteam
#CalaisFoodCol
@InfoPark4
@blindspots_ev
@HumanRightsObs
@rigarduev
@lesboslegal
@VoiceInBulgaria
#GlocalRoots #WeAreMonitoring #MissionWings #BorderlineEurope

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🟠 BVMN’s March report is now online.

https://t.co/Q0oKCS5kLZ

With contributions from our partner organisations & working groups, this special edition explains how specific groups of people on the move are made vulnerable by the systems that are meant to protect them.

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❌ The closure of Ušivak TRC and Borići TRC
❌ Access to healthcare in Bosnia, Serbia and Greece
❌Lack of protection for victims of trafficking
❌Systemic criminalisation of minors in Greece
❌Unaccompanied and separated children in the Samos CCAC

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The weaponisation through physical and digital infrastructures, preventing movement and increasing capacity for detection, has made the natural landscape more hostile and  made crossing the Van border dangerous and deadly.

Read our report here:
https://t.co/obkjauIgKv

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From the late 00s to the mid 10s, the Turkish state built new military outposts, known as kalekol, and new observation towers equipped with surveillance technologies. The satellite images show the emergence of a kalekol in the Çaldıran district between 2010 and 2015.

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The wall, 3m high and 2.8m wide, is made of concrete blocks transported to the border and is topped with barbed wire. Built after other infrastructures, it takes on unusual shapes in some areas where it surrounds pre-existing surveillance pylons and observation towers.

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Read our report to find out more, and join us tomorrow to explore the emergence and logics of border surveillance and control infrastructures at the Van border.

https://t.co/obkjauIgKv

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Along with our partner Van-based organisation .@ortakca_dernegi, we have just published a new report on the Turkish-Iranian border in Van province, one of the most dangerous crossing points for people on the move en route to Europe.

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Technological and physical infrastructures which aim at inhibiting and detecting movement. This map, designed by a volunteer of the BVMN Research & Investigations team, visualises the assemblage of infrastructures present at the Van border.