UN Commissioner for Human Rights highlights BVMN's monitoring work
| September 22, 2025 | Submissions to UN Mechanisms |
On 15 July 2025, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published its study on human rights monitoring in the context of migration.
The study was in response to Human Rights Council resolution 57/14, which sought to collect good and promising practices on how to integrate monitoring into migration governance.
The study directly mentions the Border Violence Monitoring Network as examples of monitoring work, especially in the contexts of restricted access, criminalisation, limitation of monitoring in remote areas, and the challenges of influencing decision-makers.
On top of formal consultations with the OHCHR in support for the preparation of the study, the Network also submitted a policy memo and answers to some questions raised by the Office of the Commissioner on the use of border technologies in the context of migration. Our submissions are available for download here.