Archive
Celebrating the life and legacy of Tony Bunyan
Join us as we celebrate investigative journalist Tony Bunyan’s life and work exposing state violence and documenting popular resistance. Read More
Digitalising discrimination and criminalisation
Artificial intelligence, policing and criminal justice. Read More
The “security playbook” and migrants’ rights activism
Examining the criminalization of migrants’ rights work and how this is driven by or intersects with the overreach and abuse of security and counter-terrorism laws, policies, measures, and technological tools. Read More
Following the roadmap: unmasking the EU’s security AI plans
Exposing and explaining security AI projects being undertaken behind closed doors by national and EU officials. Read More
Data exchange, exclusion and denial at the borders
Upholding the right to an effective remedy
November 2023-October 2025 Read More
Networks of (in)security
This project aims to strengthen global civil society efforts to counter the use of international counter-terrorism and security norms as a means for undermining or restricting civic space and human rights.
February 2023-November 2025 Read More
Working Party on Integration, Migration and Expulsion
The Working Party on Integration, Migration and Expulsion (IMEX) is one of 16 official justice and home affairs working parties in the Council, though it is unclear when and why its mandate was granted. According to the Council it “deals with issues related to entry to, exit from and integration in the EU.” For those purposes, it meets in different formats – for example, IMEX (Admission) or IMEX (Expulsion), the latter being most relevant for this project. Read More
Working Party on Frontiers
The Working Party on Frontiers deals “in particular with measures relating to the crossing of external and internal borders of the Schengen states,” and “questions related to the EU agency for the management of external borders, Frontex.” Read More
Operational Coordination Mechanism on the External Dimension of Migration (MOCADEM)
MOCADEM was set up in January 2022 to "enable the Union to coordinate and react in a timely manner to issues related to the external dimension of migration." It works to "prepare and propose operational actions relating to the means and leverages to be mobilised to implement the Union's objectives for each third country concerned." MOCADEM stands for mécanisme de coordination opérationnelle pour la dimension extérieure des migrations, or Operational Coordination Mechanism on the External Dimension of Migration. Read More
Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum
The Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA) was set up following the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty in 1999. In 2011 it was described by the Council’s General Secretariat as “an invaluable network for senior officials acting in politically sensitive and fast-developing EU policy field to find solutions to interrelated problems.” In 2015 it was granted a role in overseeing plans “to promote coherence between internal and external aspects of migration.” Read More