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  • Transforming justice for border deaths and disappearances: Call for expressions of interest

    As de:border // migration justice collective and Missing Migrants Lesvos, we have been weaving the initial constellations of a transnational group of individuals, many part of groups or organisations, that have sought to respond to and resist border deaths and disappearances. We are now inviting expressions of interest to join an embodied co-learning space in the form of a seven-session online workshop (between March and June 2025) and an in-person convening in Athens, Greece (at the end of May 2025).

  • Joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Migrants on the ‘phenomenon’ of missing migrants

    On 13 December 2024, de:border // migration justice collective and Legal Centre Lesvos provided their joint input to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants’ report on the ‘phenomenon’ of ‘missing’ migrants. The joint submission discusses the underlying causes of migrants’ disappearances during border crossings and the harmful impacts of in/direct state actions.

  • F.A.A. v Greece: Illegal expulsions and enforced disappearance at Evros

    Filed in November 2020, and registered and communicated to Greece in November 2021, this is the first individual complaint before the Human Rights Committee regarding Greece’s systemic policy of summary expulsion and racialising violence at Evros, arguing that such practices constitute enforced disappearances.

  • Enforced disappearances, necro-violence, and posthumous struggles for justice in Europe’s borderlands

    As a (counter)narrative lens, the framework of enforced disappearances offers an opening for rupturing the im/possibilities of state juridical justice and for recentring no-borders visions of migration justice for migrant and bordering communities living with the dead, including through reparative truth and healing.