BVMN Monthly Report - April 2026

July 07, 2026

Monthly Reports

This report brings together information from a range of countries in the region to look at the way European Union states and other actors are affecting systemic violence towards people crossing borders.

BVMN is a network of watchdog organisations active in the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Poland and France, including Rigardu, Mobile Info Team, Collective Aid, Blindspots, I Have Rights, Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria, Mission Wings, We Are Monitoring, Info Park, Legal Centre Lesvos, Human Rights Observers and Calais Food Collective. Combining insights from these different members and other partners, such as Glocal Roots and borderline-europe, this month’s report covers, among other things:

• Conditions in Lipa TRC (Bihać, BIH)
• Surveillance and violence on the Bosnian-Croatian border
• Frontex expansion and EU support to securitisation in Bosnia
• Deterrence as policy in Serbia
• Detention conditions and hunger strike in Sintiki, Greece
• Deadly start of the month and pushbacks in Greece and the Aegean
• Increasing border securitisation in Crete
• Conditions at the Samos CCAC and quarantine section
• Opening of the Vastria CCAC (Lesvos) postponed again
• A persistent issue: barriers in access to healthcare in Kos
• Months of targeted evictions on Calais’ largest living site 
• Border deaths continue on the Franco-British border 
• Pushbacks, pullbacks and deportations in Italy
• Urban policing and evictions in Menton and Ventimiglia