BVMN Monthly Report - December 2025
| February 17, 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, InfoPark, Legal Centre Lesvos, Human Rights Observers and Calais Food Collective. Combining insights from these different members and other partners, such as borderline-europe, this month’s report covers, among other things:
- Conditions in the Lipa TRC
- Authorities' negligence and violence results in more deaths in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Chronic lack of winter support in Serbia and Greece
- Pushbacks, pullbacks and shipwrecks in the Aegean
- Legal appeal against the French state in Dunkirk
- Racial profiling and harassment in trains in Calais
- Pushbacks, pullbacks, deaths and disappearances in the Central Mediterranean