The links below are offer additional information on immigration detention, or more generalised information on asylum and migration policies, in the EU and around the world. 

EUROPEAN UNION

• European Commission; Directorate General Home Affairs

• European Parliament; Committee on Civil Liberities, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)

• Council of the European Union; Access to Council documents

• Summary of EU legislation on "Free movement of persons, asylum and immigration"

• PRE-LEX: Monitoring of the decision making process between institutions

• EUR-LEX: Access to European Union law

• N-LEX: Access to national law

• EU Fundamental Rights Agency

MEMBER STATES

• United Kingdom Border Agency; Immigration Removal Centres in the UK

• Belgian Immigration Office; Belgian Immigration Office document on the "return of illegal migrants"

• French Ministory for Immigration, Asylum, Integration and Development Solidarity

• Italian Ministry of the Interior

CIVIL SOCIETY & NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS

• European Council for Refugees and Exiles

• Amnesty International EU Office

• Detention Action (formerly London Detainee Support Group)

• Global Detention Project

• International Detention Coalition

• Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID, UK)

• Bail for Immigration Detainees (BiD, UK)

• Forced Migrant Current Awareness Blog

• Association for the Prevention of Torture

• Detention Forum UK

• France Terre d'Asile

• CIMADE

• Forum réfugiés

• Dutch Refugee Council

• Pueblos Unidos (Spain)

• Greek Refugee Council

• Caritas Internationalis; Caritas Europa

• International Catholic Migration Commission

• Save the Children (Europe group)

• Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME)

• Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE)

UNITED NATIONS

• UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR); UNHCR Refworld site on detention

• UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

• UN Committee Against Torture

COUNCIL OF EUROPE

• Commissioner for Human Rights

• Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)

• European Court of Human Rights

Last updated on: 02/08/2011