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PRAB reports

The reports build on data collected during protection monitoring activities and case referrals for legal remedies. Resorting to pushbacks as a means of protecting states' borders is illegal. States have the obligation, under the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, to ensure that people can effectively seek asylum and to respect the principle of non-refoulement.

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  • PRAB Report IX: The pushback – disconnect 13 Jan 2025 PDF 1.9 MB
  • Mixed Migration in the West Balkans 22 Nov 2024 PDF 1.5 MB
  • PRAB VIII: Pushbacks at Europe's borders: a continuously ignored crisis 31 Jan 2024 PDF 1.1 MB
  • PRAB Overview 2023 31 Jan 2024 PDF 2.3 MB
  • PRAB VII: Surprisingly surprised 28 Sep 2023 PDF 1002.2 KB
  • PRAB VI: What we do in the shadows 30 May 2023 PDF 1.1 MB
  • PRAB V: Beaten, punished, and pushed back 26 Jan 2023 PDF 2 MB
  • PRAB IV: When there’s a will, there’s a way to protection 02 May 2022 PDF 1.4 MB
  • PRAB III: Human dignity lost at the EU's borders 13 Dec 2021 PDF 2 MB
  • PRAB II: Doors Wide Shut 12 Jul 2021 PDF 1.7 MB
  • PRAB I: Pushing Back Responsibility 12 Apr 2021 PDF 865.7 KB
  • PRAB Overview 2021 09 Jan 2022 PDF 2 MB

Executive summary

The Protecting Rights at Borders (PRAB) initiative was carried out by protection and legal aid organisations focusing on human rights compliance at the EU’s external and internal borders from 2021 to 2025. The PRAB partners have well established field presence in the countries of operation, which enabled direct access to victims of pushbacks, as well as longstanding experience in strategic litigation.

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