BVMN Monthly Report - August 2025
| October 27, 2025 | Monthly Reports |
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:
- Fire in Obrenovac Asylum Center, in Serbia
- Use of dogs by Bulgarian police
- Closure of Borići TRC and inadequate conditions in Lipa, in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Draconian Greek law increases punitive measures against people on the move, in Greece
- Issues in the registration and asylum procedure on Samos
- Heightened work and housing crisis on Kos
- Mülteci-Der’s latest report on the İzmir Harmandalı Removal Center
- Evictions and violence in Calais and Dunkirk