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GLAN news
Aug 10, 2021
Submission to Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya on EU & its Member States’ Responsibilities
10 August 2021 The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) has made a submission to the United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission on...
Dec 18, 2019
Legal complaint filed against Italy for privatised push-backs to Libya and migrant abuse
GLAN filed a complaint against Italy with the UN Human Rights Committee on behalf of an individual whose journey from Libya was...
Dec 11, 2019
New project: Ending violent 'pushbacks' of refugees and migrants at the Greek-Turkish border
For years, the Greek authorities have been involved in informal, forcible removals (pushbacks) of migrants and asylum-seekers who enter...
Apr 18, 2019
Case filed against Greece in Strasbourg Court over crackdown on humanitarian organisations
Following a two-and-a-half-year legal ordeal in Greek courts, Salam Kamal-Aldeen, founder of the non-profit Team Humanity, has filed an...
Sep 13, 2018
Presentation to German Parliament on Mediterranean abuse & targeting of human rights defenders
GLAN members Dr. Violeta Moreno-Lax and Dr. Itamar Mann appeared before members of the German parliament today, to address migrant...
May 8, 2018
Legal action against Italy over coordination of Libyan Coast Guard pull-backs resulting in migrants
Screengrab from Forensic Oceanography's reconstruction of fatal maritime incident Seventeen survivors of a fatal incident in which a boat...
Apr 15, 2018
Refugee deportations may give rise to Israel's international criminal responsibility
On Sunday, April 15, 2018 GLAN wrote to warn officials from both Israel and Uganda on the possible international criminal legal...
Nov 7, 2017
GLAN teams up with Forensic Architecture to examine migrant push-backs by the Australian navy
GLAN is teaming up with Goldsmiths University’s Centre for Research Architecture and Forensic Architecture to map, visualise and...
Feb 13, 2017
Communication to International Criminal Court requesting investigation of Australia & corporations
GLAN and the Stanford International Human Rights Clinic have submitted a communication to the Office of the Prosecutor at the...
Jul 26, 2016
Refugee camp company in Australia 'liable for crimes against humanity'
The company that has taken over the management of Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime has been warned by international law...
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