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Global Detention Project, relaunched as an independent research centre
Mariana Andrei - Communication Coordinator
10 December 2014
Global Detention Project (GDP) was relaunched as an independent non-profit research centre, after having operated for eight years within the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
Based in Geneva, GDP provides political decision makers, civil society and human rights institutions with data and analyses on immigrant detention regimes, with a focus on the impact of detention policies upon health, human rights, as well as on a category of aliens such as undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees.
Detention became an important concern in the international human rights community, as a growing number of countries worldwide started to rely on this practice, as a response to migratory pressures. “I must emphasise that the detention of asylum seekers and migrants should only be applied as a last resort, in exceptional circumstances, for the shortest possible duration and according to procedural safeguards. The tendency to promote law enforcement and security paradigms (...) dehumanises irregular migrants, enabling a climate of violence against them and further depriving them of the full protection of the law”, said Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein of Jordan, the new U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, in his inaugural speech.
Recognising GDP as an important resource for the academic world, the international community and civil society organisations helped relaunch the project as an independent organisation in September 2014.
Among the centre's plans for the future is the release in early 2015 of a new “Global Immigration Detention Database", to supply detailed information on detention practices in each country; the release of several publications on immigrant detention in Gulf States; the international legal framework for detention and the challenges of child investigation and detention.
Source:
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/publications/newsletter/press-release-29-october-2014.html
Based in Geneva, GDP provides political decision makers, civil society and human rights institutions with data and analyses on immigrant detention regimes, with a focus on the impact of detention policies upon health, human rights, as well as on a category of aliens such as undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees.
Detention became an important concern in the international human rights community, as a growing number of countries worldwide started to rely on this practice, as a response to migratory pressures. “I must emphasise that the detention of asylum seekers and migrants should only be applied as a last resort, in exceptional circumstances, for the shortest possible duration and according to procedural safeguards. The tendency to promote law enforcement and security paradigms (...) dehumanises irregular migrants, enabling a climate of violence against them and further depriving them of the full protection of the law”, said Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein of Jordan, the new U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, in his inaugural speech.
Recognising GDP as an important resource for the academic world, the international community and civil society organisations helped relaunch the project as an independent organisation in September 2014.
Among the centre's plans for the future is the release in early 2015 of a new “Global Immigration Detention Database", to supply detailed information on detention practices in each country; the release of several publications on immigrant detention in Gulf States; the international legal framework for detention and the challenges of child investigation and detention.
Source:
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/publications/newsletter/press-release-29-october-2014.html
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