BVMN Monthly Report - October 2025

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, 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 from Hungary to Serbia and from Croatia to Bosnia
• Update on conditions in Bosnia's TRCs
• Drowning in the Danube river
• End of the asylum ban in Greece
• Shpwrecks, pushbacks and apprehensions in the Aegean
• Evictions on Samos and Northern France
• No justice after death of migrant child in Turkey