➡️This page will be updated regularly to include the most recent statements and resources from IDC members and partners.
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Civil Society
- Masters in Social Work Online: COVID-19 Guide for Social Workers
- Action Committee: First, Save Lives: Solutions for the Covid-19 pandemic and new solidarity with migrants and refugees
- Global Detention Project: Covid-19 Global Immigration Detention Platform
- Border Criminologies: Statement on healthcare provisions for undocumented migrants and those in immigration detention
- PICUM: The COVID-19 pandemic: we need urgent measures to protect people and mend the cracks in our health, social protection and migration systems
- Amnesty International: Americas: Governments must halt dangerous and discriminatory detention of migrants and asylum seekers
- Jesuit Refugee Service: COVID-19 and asylum: the right response is the same as ever - ensure protection, stop detention, invest in inclusion
- Refugees International: COVID-19 and the displaced: Addressing the threat of the novel coronavirus in humanitarian emergencies
- Terre des Hommes: Accelerate release of children from detention; Protect children from COVID-19
Country-Specific Statements
MEXICO
- ⚡️ Human Rights Watch: México debe liberar a los migrantes detenidos en el contexto de la pandemia
- ⚡️ Amnesty International: Amnistía Internacional pide al Dr. López-Gatell respaldar liberación de personas migrantes ante COVID-19
- Grupo de trabajo sobre politica migratoria (in Spanish): Por el cuidado de todas y todos, incluyendo las personas en contexto de movilidad ante la actual crisis humanitaria por el coronavirus COVID-19
- Sin Fronteras (In Spanish): Ante los riesgos por el Covid-19: Exigimos la libertad inmediata de todas las personas migrantes, refugiadas y solicitantes de asilo en detencion migratoria
- Change.org (in Spanish): ¡LIBERACIÓN DE PERSONAS MIGRANTES DETENIDAS EN ESTACIONES MIGRATORIAS EN MÉXICO POR COVID!
CYPRUS
FRANCE
- Gisti (In French): Face à la crise sanitaire, l’enfermement administratif des personnes étrangères doit immédiatement cesser
GREECE
- Greek Forum of Refugees: ”Restore legality to protect refugees and the society at large amidst the pandemic”
NORTH MACEDONIA
SPAIN
- ⚡️APDHA: Campaña #RegularizaciónYa de todas las personas migrantes y refugiadas
- Servicio Jesuita del Migrante (In Spanish): Ante la excepcionalidad actual, Interior debe dictar medidas para garantizar los derechos en todos los CIE, liberando a las personas internadas que no pueden ser expulsadas y ofreciendo alternativas de protección
SWITZERLAND
- Sosf (In French): Coronavirus: des mesures de protection pour tout le monde!
UK
- The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants: Protecting migrants from Covid-19
USA
- ⚡️UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Migrants: US: Migrants “held for processing” should be released from COVID-19 high-risk detention centres
- Amnesty International: USA: Amid COVID-19 pandemic, authorities must release immigration detainees
- Freedom for Immigrants: Freedom for Immigrants Calls for Release of Detained Immigrants, Free Video Visitation & Phone Calls in Response to Shutdown of Social Visitation in Immigrant Prisons
- Freedom for Immigrants: Over 250 National, State, and Local Advocacy Groups Call on Congress to Cut Funding to ICE and CBP
- Freedom for Immigrants: Defund Hate Coalition: Giving Trump More Money for ICE and CBP During the Coronavirus Global Health Crisis Is Exploitative
- National Immigrant Justice Centre: NIJC Calls On Congress To Protect All Communities In COVID-19 Aid Packages
- National Immigrant Justice Centre: ICE Detention In The Time Of COVID-19: Accounts From NIJC's Detained Clients
- Migrant Centre for Human Rights: Report from the ground in Texas: immigrant detention in times of Covid-19
UN Network on Migration
- ⚡️English: POLICY BRIEF Covid-19 & Immigration Detention: What Can Governments and Other Stakeholder Do?
- ⚡️English: PRESS RELEASE Covid-19 & Immigration Detention: What Can Governments and Other Stakeholder Do?
- English: COVID-19 Does Not Discriminate; Nor Should Our Response
- Spanish: El COVID-19 no discrimina; ni tampoco nuestra respuesta
- Arabic: كوفيد -19 لا يميّز بين شخص وآخر ، تمامًا كما يجدر بعمليّة تصدّينا للوباء أن تكون