Border Forensics
Budget
€382,786
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
1
0.1 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
Border Forensics (BF) is an agency with the legal status of a non-profit association based in Geneva. It mobilizes cutting-edge geospatial, visual, and open-source investigation methods pioneered by Forensic Architecture, to document and contest border violence in all its forms, whether they are between or within states. Building upon 10 years of documenting border violence at sea, it seeks to acknowledge and fight for the dignity of people and support their claims to rights and justice by investigating practices of violence perpetrated by states, police forces, militaries, and corporations, in collaboration with concerned communities and civil society organisations. In doing that, BF strives to embody a form of critical human rights practice, seeking to use a set of innovative tools and, at the same time, reflecting critically on those very tools, their use, and at times ambivalent effects.
EU Legislative Interests
Legislative proposals and policy initiatives linked to the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). More specifically: The implementation of the legislative files adopted in the context of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, i.e. Screening Regulation (No. 2024/1356), Asylum Procedure Regulation (No. 2024/1348), Return Border Procedure (No. 2024/1349), Qualification Regulation (2024/1347), Reception Conditions Directive (No. 2024/1346), Crisis and Force majeure Regulation (No. 2024/1359), Regulation on Asylum and Migration Management (No. 2024/1351), Eurodac Regulation (No. 2024/1358). The implementation and revision of connected legislative files, i.e. Schengen Border Code (No. 2024/1717) and the Facilitators Package. The potential recast of the Return Directive (No. 2008/115/EC) Policy initiatives within the external dimension of migration and asylum, with a particular focus on cooperation with third countries in North Africa (e.g. Libya, Tunisia), and relating EU-funding initiatives through the EU Trust Fund for Africa and NDICI- Global Europe. Policy initiatives in the field of labor, legal migration, integration, and anti-discrimination (e.g. in the context of implementation of the Long-Term Residence Directive; establishment of talent pools).
Communication Activities
Presentation of human rights reports.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
We are not part of associations, (con)federations, networks and other bodies.
Organisation Members
www.borderforensics.org
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.