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November 15, 2021 Commentary

Immigrant Detention Is Expensive, and Alternatives Are Just As Effective

Case Management Programs Cost Less and Are More Humane than Imprisoning Asylum Seekers

Photo of person being released from immigration detention.
November 3, 2021 News Release

Alternatives to Immigration Detention

Pilot Programs Point Way to Rights-Respecting Models

Illustration of a man hugging his family outside of a detention center
July 6, 2021 Dispatches

Cyprus Moves to Shutter Local Human Rights Group

KISA Should Not Face Deregistration for a Technicality

A migrant carrying a camp bed and bed clothes inside a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia outside of Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, March 3, 2020.
September 29, 2020 Report

Cyprus: Asylum Seekers Summarily Returned

Pushbacks Against Surge of Arrivals by Boat From Lebanon

Cyprus coast guard carrying migrants from a boat from Lebanon interdicted on January 14, 2020. © 2020 Reuters/Yiannis Kourtoglou
April 16, 2020 News Release

Turkish Cypriot Authorities: Release Detained Syrian Asylum Seekers

Republic of Cyprus Should Process Their Claims

175 Syrian asylum seekers were held in a sports hall in the Turkish controlled part of northern Cyprus for two days before being transferred to apartment buildings where they continue to be detained. Photo taken in March 2020.
September 3, 2018 News Release

Cluster Munition Coalition Statement on Stockpile Destruction to the Convention on Cluster Munitions Eighth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva

Delivered by Mary Wareham, Advocacy Director, Arms Division

June 26, 2017 Letter

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Cyprus

March 8, 2017 Letter

Civil Society Letter to Heads of State and Government on EU Response to the Refugee Crisis

December 4, 2013 Dispatches

Dispatches: Securing Borders or Saving Lives?

October 23, 2013 News Release

EU: Improve Migrant Rescue, Offer Refuge

Summit Needs Rights-Based Approach to Boat Migration, Syria Refugees

October 26, 2011 News Release

Joint Statement to Northern Cyprus Regarding Arrests Under Article 171

February 11, 2007 News Release

European Parliament: Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity

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