Thread by @privacyint, [NEW!] A new UN experts report shines a light on the role [...]

[NEW!] A new UN experts report shines a light on the role of private military and security services in immigration and border management and their impact to the rights of all migrants.

Read more on our website and in this short thread:
https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3756/pis-submission-un-working-group-use-mercenaries-role-private-companies-immigration

The report underscores the responsibilities of private military and security companies in human rights abuses as well as lack of oversight and, ultimately, of accountability of the system.

It also makes some crucial recommendations:
https://undocs.org/A/HRC/45/9

In our submission (referenced in the report), we highlighted that these companies have come to play an essential role in framing of migration as a security threat for which the “solution” is security and military technical and technological tools.

https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3756/pis-submission-un-working-group-use-mercenaries-role-private-companies-immigration

Private military and security companies play an essential role in providing a variety of surveillance tech and data exploitation tools - they enable many of the threats that people on the move face today: https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4000/10-threats-migrants-and-refugees

10 threats to migrants and refugees

Over the last two decades we have seen an array of digital technologies being deployed in the context of border controls and immigration enforcement, with surveillance practices and data-driven...

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/4000/10-threats-migrants-and-refugees

The report takes a clear stance on the issue of immigration detention, recommending States terminate the outsourcing of the overall operation of immigration detention facilities to private military and security companies. https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4124/dear-home-secretary-channel-crossings-are-already-inviable-asylum-seekers-and

Dear Home Secretary: Channel crossings are already inviable for asylum-seekers and human rights

In the last few weeks, the UK government has announced various new measures to ensure that crossings across the Channel were “inviable” including by appointing a new role of “clandestine Channel...

https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4124/dear-home-secretary-channel-crossings-are-already-inviable-asylum-seekers-and

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