Border externalization: Legal strategies to contest migrant rights violations
On 19, 20 and 21 May 2021, four human rights organisations - the Association for Juridical Studies on Migration (ASGI), the Network of University Legal Aid Institutions (NULAI Nigeria), Avocats sans Frontières (ASF) and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) - organised an international conference on "Border externalization policies: consequences on mobility in Africa and on the right to asylum". During the conference, which took place simultaneously in Abuja, Roma, Tunis, and Libya; the organisations, in collaboration with 19 panelists and experts from Italy, Libya, Tunisia and Nigeria, reflected on how to develop transnational strategies to oppose externalization policies.