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Forum of orgs and activists working in the UK-FR-BE crossborder space. Plateforme d'assos et militant.e.s travaillant dans l'espace transfrontalier UK-FR-BE.

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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Tomorrow, Thursday 26th March, join @humansforrights.bsky.social & @projectplayfrance.bsky.social for a discussion on how border violence is an intentional structural element of securitisation of the UK-French border Register here (online or in-person in London) www.tickettailor.com/events/cross...
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Select tickets – Report Discussion: You Can't Stay but You Can't Go – London
Report Discussion: You Can't Stay but You Can't Go – London, Thu 26 Mar 2026 - Join us on Thursday 26th March to discuss Humans for Rights Network's recently published report, 'You Can't Stay, but You...
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Last week we co-hosted events in Calais & London on the report 'How Stopping The Boats Kills' by researchers at @sociodigfutures.bsky.social & @borderforensics.bsky.social The full report is now available online: www.borderforensics.org/investigatio...
Attendees and speaker at a London discussion of the report
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Last Saturday, a small boat was intercepted in the Aa canal in Dunkerque. This dangerous tactic is illegal under maritime law. As @utopia56.bsky.social have repeatedly pointed out, this isn't new. They've observed at least 6 of these incidents since 2024. www.lavoixdunord.fr/1666793/arti...
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Migrants : une première interception de « small boat », de quoi rassurer les Britanniques
D’après une photo envoyée au média public britannique BBC, une première interce...
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MARCHE DES SOLIDARITÉS @msolidarites.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🔴Justice et vérité pour El Hacen Diarra 📅Manifestation dimanche 25 janvier à 14h - départ Foyer des Mûriers Paris 20ᵉ en direction du commissariat du 20eme 📅Réunion de préparation jeudi 22 janvier à 19h au Foyer des Muriers. Contre les violences policières et le racisme.
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Migreurop @migreurop.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
✊A l'occasion de la journée internationale des migrant·e·s, Migreurop réaffirme son engagement en faveur des droits fondamentaux des personnes en migration, contre les frontières mortifères, pour la fermeture de tous les camps d'étranger·e·s et pour la liberté de circulation.
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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants @jcwi-uk.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
🚨 Take urgent action to stop Air France deportations next week. Call, email and @ them on social media: Tell them not to be complicit in these violent deportations of people seeking safety. Use this script to help you: docs.google.com/document/d/1qs… #STOPAIRFRANCEDEPORTATIONS
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Three people died yesterday and three more people are missing, and one more woman died earlier this week. Their deaths are a direct result of the border policies that force people into irregular routes, with 34 victims at the franco-british border already in 2025. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Trois migrants sont morts lors d’une tentative de traversée de la Manche, et trois personnes sont portées disparues après un autre accident maritime
Cela porte à au moins 23 le nombre de décès survenus lors de telles tentatives depuis le début de l’année, selon un comptage de l’AFP à partir de données officielles.
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Utopia 56 @utopia56.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Cette nuit, une jeune femme d’une trentaine d’années est morte sur la plage de Malo, à Dunkerque. Elle tentait de monter à bord d’une embarcation, espérant rejoindre le Royaume-Uni. C’est la 28ème victime des politiques migratoires à cette frontière depuis le début de l’année.
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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants @jcwi-uk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Many of us will join protests in the coming days — and we have every right to. But with recent crackdowns and the UK gov targeting protestors, it’s vital to know your rights. If you’re an immigrant in the UK, read our updated protest advice 👇 🔗 jcwi.org.uk/resource/imm...
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Immigration advice for people attending protests
The UK government continues to take increasingly authoritarian measures against protest and protestors. This includes banning the direct action group Palestine Action under so-called terrorism laws…
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Utopia 56 @utopia56.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Hier, 898 personnes sur 13 embarcations de fortune, ont réussi à rejoindre le Royaume-Uni par la Manche, amenant à plus de 25 000 le nombre d’arrivées cette année. Les semblants d’accords et les politiques répressives n’empêchent pas les traversées mais poussent à toujours plus de risques.
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Disclose @disclose.ngo · 08/07/2025
🔴 Jumaa-al-Hasan, 27 ans, s’est noyé le 2 mars 2024 en voulant monter sur une embarcation pour l’Angleterre La police est directement impliquée dans sa mort et n'a rien fait pour le secourir, révèlent @disclosengo.bsky.social, Liminal et @index-ngo.bsky.social disclose.ngo/fr/article/l...
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La police impliquée dans la mort par noyade de Jumaa al-Hasan, un exilé syrien
Il y a un peu plus d’un an, Jumaa-al-Hasan, 27 ans, s’est noyé au cours d’une intervention policière destinée à l’empêcher de monter sur une embarcation pour l'Angleterre. Plusieurs policiers sont dir...
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Ahead of the French-UK summit @refugeeaction.bsky.social @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @humansforrights.bsky.social @camcrag.bsky.social and others have signed a statement 'condemn[ing] unequivocally the continued violence and securitisation' at the border www.crossborderforum.org/july-2025-fr...
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July 2025 France-UK Summit Statement — Crossborder Forum
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Project Play @projectplayfrance.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Today Yvette Cooper said she wants to criminalise people crossing the Channel "to keep children safe". She clearly hasn't read our report! Our research shows how increased securitization of the UK France border doesn't keep children safe, it puts them in danger 👇
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La Cimade @lacimade.org · 01/07/2025
#De7JoursA7Mois En 1981, la durée d'enfermement des personnes étrangères en centre de rétention administrative (CRA) était de 7 jours max Avec la nouvelle proposition de loi actuellement débattue à l'Assemblée, elle pourrait atteindre 210 jours soit 7 mois 🚨 Alerte sur une dérive brutale du droit
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Children at the UK-France border are facing relentless violence. A new report by CBF member @projectplayfrance.bsky.social is dedicated to them and highlights the realities children face at this border. 👇 www.project-play.org/we-want-to-b...
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A really important report from @humansforrights.bsky.social Refugee Legal Support @captainsupportuk.bsky.social & @bordercrim.bsky.social looking at the criminalisation of people - including children - arriving in the UK www.humansforrights.org/i-told-them-...
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Utopia 56 @utopia56.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
« Le bateau est cassé, il y a deux personnes mortes ». Ce sont les infos que nous avons reçu lors d'un appel de détresse dans la Manche ce matin. Nous avons directement prévenu les secours. En moins de 10 jours, cinq personnes sont décédées des politiques de cette frontière.
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Today, another person has died at the French-British border. He is the 17th victim this year of these cruel border policies. Whilst politicians on both sides of the Channel continue with anti-immigrant rhetoric, their policies destroy lives. www.lavoixdunord.fr/1585418/arti...
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Marck : un migrant meurt écrasé après avoir tenté de monter à bord d’un camion
Un migrant d’origine érythréenne est mort, à Marck, après avoir été écrasé ...
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
📖Our news digest for April is now available online, with links to articles and resources available in French and English; 📖Notre bulletin pour le mois d'avril est actuellement en ligne, avec des liens vers des articles et ressources en français et en anglais www.crossborderforum.org/en/news-dige...
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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants @jcwi-uk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The racist criminalisation of people seeking sanctuary must end. Here and across Europe, hundreds – mostly young Black men – are doubly victimised: first by the conflicts they flee and then by a racist border system that criminalises them. Report below 👇. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘It was steer or they would kill me’: why Sudanese war refugees are filling prisons in Greece
Prosecutors are using harsh anti-smuggling laws to jail people who have no connection to criminal offences, say migrants’ lawyers
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🟩 Please share! 🟩 One of our friends, Fatou, is in immigration detention right now. Tomorrow, we are holding Solidarity Online Rally for Fatou - to end detention and end deportation! For more information, visit our webpage below ⬇️ righttoremain.org.uk/online-solid...
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Holly Bancroft @hollybancroft.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thousands of migrants held at UK-run French detention centres ‘shrouded in secrecy’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Thousands of migrants held at UK-run French detention centres ‘shrouded in secrecy’
Exclusive: New data sheds light on four opaque detention sites in France that are run by the UK
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Vicky Taylor @vickytaylor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Border Security Bill seeks to further criminalise people seeking safety in the UK Read about the current situation where people are imprisoned for crossing the Channel, & concerns about the new Bill here: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi... @bordercrim.bsky.social @captainsupportuk.bsky.social
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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
In the week marking six months since the racist riots, with over 60 other organisations we're calling on the government to take action on the growing threat of the far right. It's time our politicians lead by example, in policy and in practice. Read our joint statement 👉 ow.ly/iNw150UPuVw
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Six months since the riots, charities urge the government to take action on the growing threat of the far right
In the week marking six months since racist riots which gripped the country, racial justice, migrants rights and Muslim organisations have written to the government urging them to take action on growi...
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An important letter to read from organisations and networks based in different EU countries, around the lack of transparency relating to the EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum
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Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
She argues "so-called ‘alternatives to detention’ such as reporting to the Home Office and electronic tagging...increase the numbers of people subject to Home Office surveillance.” #AbolishReporting Read the full piece on our website: www.migrantsorganise.org/guest-post-a...
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Guest Post: ‘Alternatives to Detention’ in the UK
Lauren Cape-Davenhill shares research from 'Alternatives to Detention and the Carceral State’ (Border Abolition Now, Pluto Press 2024).
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Yesterday, a young man’s body was found on the beach in Sangatte. His death is the third at the French-UK border since 1 January 2025. There will be a remembrance held for him tonight in Calais, and tomorrow night in Dunkirk calaislasociale.fr/2025/01/22/u...
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Un nouveau drame aux portes de l’Angleterre
Ce mercredi matin, vers 10 heures, un jeune homme d’origine yéménite a été retrouvé sans vie sur la plage des Salines, à Sangatte. Les papiers retrouvés sur lui indique qu’il avait 23 ans. Il s’agit d...
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La Cimade @lacimade.org · 23/01/2025
[Evènement] En hommage aux personnes exilées mortes et disparues aux frontières, La Cimade vous invite à un ciné-rencontre autour de « En colère », un court-métrage de Muriel Cravatte 🗓️ Rendez-vous en ligne le 5 février de 18h à 19h30 ➡️ Inscrivez vous, c'est gratuit ! zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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MARCHE DES SOLIDARITÉS @msolidarites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Manifestation vendredi 17 janvier 15H au départ de la gaité lyrique. Les mineur.e.s isolé.e.s soutenu.e.s par la coordination sans-papiers 75 appellent à la mobilisation ! Et demain manifestation les mineur.e.s isolé.e.s en lutte et la Coordination sans-papiers 75 ! VENEZ !
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aubergedesmigrants @aubergedesmigrants.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Le 11 janvier 2025, rejoignez la grande marche solidaire à Calais. Refusons la continuité des politiques indignes menées aux frontières de la France et de l’Europe !
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Les Jours @lesjours.fr · 01/01/2025
Depuis 2023, Maël Galisson enquête pour «Les Jours» sur les exilés disparus en tentant de traverser la Manche. Cette année, le bilan s’élève à 89 décès, le plus meurtrier depuis que notre journaliste décompte les morts, parce que ces vies comptent. 🧵 lesjours.fr/obsessio...
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2024, année la plus meurtrière pour les exilés à Calais
Au moins 89 personnes sont mortes cette année en voulant traverser la Manche. Des tentatives de plus en plus risquées, aggravées par la répression policière.
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The latest news digest from November is available on our website now, with a variety of news articles related to the FR-BE-UK border space www.crossborderforum.org/en/news-dige...
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News Digests — Crossborder Forum
CBF News Digests
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Will Coldwell @willcoldwell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Across Europe, unreliable medical exams are being used to determine the age – and fate – of young asylum seekers. For the @thedialmag.bsky.social, I reported on the way that age assessments are putting vulnerable children at risk of harm www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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“You Don’t Have an Age” — The Dial
Medical exams to determine the age of asylum seekers are putting minors at risk.
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Vicky Taylor @vickytaylor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We are in court this morning for Ibrahima's permission to appeal hearing. Ibrahima Bah is in prison for steering a dinghy across the Channel. He was sentenced to 9.5 years in prison in Feb 24. Follow: @captainsupportuk.bsky.social @freeibrahimabah.bsky.social @humansforrights.bsky.social
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Join @captainsupportuk.bsky.social l & @freeibrahimabah.bsky.social at 9am this Wednesday for a rally in support of Ibrahima Bah
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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Talking of immigration as a "failure" is a dangerous move, which has been shown to stoke hostility against migrants. It is insulting to those of us who have made our lives here, and is akin to the same hostile rhetoric which helped stoke the riots we saw earlier this year.
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
On both sides of the Channel this week, politicians continue to speak about 'fighting immigration' and 'smashing the gangs'. But we see daily, here and elsewhere across Europe, that the criminalisation of people on the move doesn't stop anyone moving; it just forces people to take riskier journeys.
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Julie Lejeune @jlejeune.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Naufragés dans la Manche, morts aux frontières. Un rassemblement, une marche, une table ronde. Pour ne pas les oublier, pour agir ensemble, pour mieux comprendre. Dunkerque, dans la nuit du 23 au 24 novembre
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Crossborder Forum @crossborderforum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This Saturday, 23 November, there's a commemoration in Dunkirk, in remembrance of those who were killed crossing the channel on 24 November 2021. Ce samedi, il y aura une commemoration aux personnes mouraient au cours d'une traversée vers le Royaume-Uni. Join from 7pm, Place Jean Bart.
Commemoration : on the 24th of November 2021, 27 people died and 4 people went missing, while trying to cross to the UK. 
Join us on 23/11/24 to honour displaced people killed by borders, to support their loved ones who deamnd justice and to bring an end to the deadly border regime.
19h - commemorative march, place Jean Bart, Dunkirk. Please bring a candle.
21h - Round table, with journalist Julia Pascual (Le monde), Me Maria Thomas and Me Jessica Lescs (lawyers representing the families of the victims) Studio 43, Pole Marine, rue des Fusiliers marin, Dunkirk
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