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Highlights from the 15th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference, Vienna, 6-7 July 2015

Presentation by Kateryna Levchenko at the 15th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference, 7 July 2015

Presentation by Sanja Pupacic at the 15th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference, 7 July 2015

Presentation by Michela Macchiavello at the 15th Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference, 7 July 2015

This article proposes a gendered critique of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), a policy framework that, amongst other things, aims to facilitate the mobility of migrants to the EU from the bordering countries. We highlight the ambivalences of European regimes of gender and migration, and we take issue with the celebration of the “feminisation of migration.” The former fails to offer opportunities to women to safely embark on autonomous migratory projects, the latter contributes to reproduce traditional gender biases in the countries of origin as well as of destination. We conclude by suggesting that the EU critique to emigration countries for failing to tackle women’s discrimination falls short of persuasiveness when confronted with the curtailment on women’s independent mobility within the ENP framework.

This article analyses Israel’s policies toward Sudanese and Eritrean asylum-seekers from 2002 to 2014, a period during which 60,000 entered the country on account of its lax border with Egypt. After introducing Israel’s unique immigration regime the article focuses on Israel’s asylum system, emphasizing the low recognition rates and its chaotic “patch work,” “on the move” character. The second part examines the ways Israel has made it difficult for asylumseekers to live within its borders after entering, focusing on their limited access to social and other public services, and, since 2012, the adoption of a policy of prolonged detention without trial and active encouragement of those detained to leave Israel “willingly” to Uganda and Rwanda. Finally, we use interview data to analyse asylum-seekers’ daily realities and explore their understanding of and struggle against Israel’s immigration and asylum policies.

While the Opinion welcomes a number of improvements to the criminal procedural rules in the Kyrgyz Republic, it also provides a number of recommendations to amend or supplement the Draft Criminal Procedure Code, in order to: 1. effectively prevent and combat torture and other forms of ill-treatment during the criminal justice process; 2. improve the system of juvenile justice; 3. clarify the rules on the inadmissibility of evidence; and 4. ensure a more effective protection of the rights of the suspect or accused at each stage of the criminal proceedings.

This paper summarises the proceedings of a closed door international workshop on the Libyan crisis jointly organised by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and the European Council on Foreign Relation (ECFR) on 13 May 2015. Invited experts convened in London to discuss the evolving civil war in Libya and debate various diplomatic and policy scenarios meant to address some of the most pressing challenges facing the Libyan authorities, neighbouring states and multilateral actors as they seek to bring about a negotiated solution to the crisis. The workshop was conceived within the framework of the New-Med Research Network, an ongoing project run by IAI, in cooperation with the Compagnia di San Paolo of Turin, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the OSCE Secretariat with the aim of creating a network of analysts and research centres to foster dialogue and an exchange of ideas on comprehensive security issues in the Mediterranean region.

December 2014

This thematic report provides an overview of the situation on freedom of movement across the administrative boundary line (ABL) between Ukraine’s Kherson region and Crimea. Crossing the ABL has gradually been limited by various measures, and this has particularly affected the most vulnerable and economically disadvantaged groups.