Libya

  • S.D.G. v Italy: Privatised ‘pushbacks’ and human rights abuses

    Filed in December 2019 with the UN Human Rights Committee, SDG v Italy challenges so-called ‘privatised pushbacks’—in which states engage commercial ships to return intercepted migrants to unsafe locations in disregard of various legal obligations, including human rights law.

  • EU-funded refoulement and containment in the Central Mediterranean and Libya

    Two interventions—before the European Court of Auditors (ECA) and the European Parliament’s Petitions Committee (PETI)—make up the first set of challenges to legally expose and challenge the structures of the EU’s externalisation, orchestration, and financialisation of migration control in the Central Mediterranean.

  • S.S. and Ors v Italy: Extraterritorial policies of ‘contactless control’

    Filed in May 2018 with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of 17 survivors of a 130-person shipwreck off of Libya, the case asserts Italy’s “contactless control” and “functional jurisdiction” over Libyan actors implementing the EU and its Member States’ refoulement and containment regime in the central Mediterranean.