BVMN Monthly Report - September 2025

This report brings together first-hand testimonies 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, Pushback Alarm Austria, I Have Rights, Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria, Mission Wings, We Are Monitoring, InfoPark, Legal Centre Lesvos, Human Rights Observers and Calais Food Collective. Combining insights from these different members and other partners, such as Glocal Roots (Greece), this month’s report covers, among other things:

• Violent pushbacks by Serbian authorities to N. Macedonia
• Update on conditions in Bosnia's TRCs
• Criminalisation of solidarity in Poland and aquittal of six activists
• Legal and policy developments in Greece
• Criminalisation of people on the move in the Aegean
• New protocol between Presidency of Migration Management and Union of Turkish Bar Associations
• Eviction of the Orange Squat in Calais and further displacement