About the partnership

The End Pushbacks Partnership gathered independent organisations that were already working at Europe's borders. It was never a single office with a single press line. It was a way for legal clinics, monitors, and humanitarian teams to speak together when pushbacks were being treated as ordinary border management.

In 2020 and 2021 the members published joint advocacy demands and a report on rights violations at Europe's borders. Those documents still sit on this site so researchers and counsel can cite the same pages the partnership used at the time.

Who sat at the table

Named members included ASGI, Borderline Sicilia, Elin, HumanRights360, INTERSOS, Kesha Niya, KlikAktiv, Mobile Info Team, PIC, Progetto 20k, and Refugee Rights Europe. Other groups took part and asked not to be listed. Geography ran from the Italian coast and the Greek islands through the Balkan corridor and into wider European advocacy.

If you are reading this as a former volunteer, the home page still carries the member marks and the outbound links those groups used. We keep those paths so inbound citations do not land on a blank page.

What the collective asked for

The partnership asked states to stop informal returns, to give people access to an asylum procedure, and to investigate violence at the border. It also asked EU institutions to treat pushbacks as a pattern, not as isolated incidents. That agenda is historical now, but the facts it collected still matter to people who were returned without a hearing.

Use the home page links for the demands PDF and the longer report. This page is the short map of who gathered and why the archive remains online.