BVMN Monthly Report - July 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 Mobile Info Team, Collective Aid, Blindspots, I Have Rights, Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria, Mission Wings, We Are Monitoring, Info Park, Legal Centre Lesvos, Human Rights Observers and Calais Food Collective. Combining insights from these different members and other partners, such as Glocal Roots, borderline-europe and Medical Solidarity International Bosnia, this month’s report covers, among other things:

• Violence at the Croatian border
• Criminalisation of movement in BIH and Serbia
• Homelessness and the never-ending cycle of insecurity on Kos
• Two shipwrecks and an increase in forced interceptions off the coast of Samos
• Heat, housing, and health in the Lesvos CACC
• Evictions in Calais and Dunkirk
• Detention and pushbacks at the French-Italian border
• Dead and missing in the Central Mediterranean 
• New detention of civilian sea rescue boats