BVMN Monthly Report - January 2026

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:

• Another death in Lipa TRC
• Frontex deployment in Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Chronic lack of adequate winter support in Serbia and France
• New laws and further criminalisation of civil society in Greece
• Legal appeal against the French state in Dunkirk
• Update on pushbacks and pullbacks in the Central Mediterranean
• Deaths and disappearances in the context of Cyclone Harry