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with positive responses from the courts. ASGI has
the practices as well as legislation that make admin-
additionally developed models for requesting access
istrative detention possible. Among its activities,
to the centres, to be disseminated and used by other
Move provides training to new visitors and promote
civil society organisations. For ASGI, monitoring
awareness raising among elected representatives
the detention conditions and fundamental rights
and legal professionals, to support them in assisting
violations occurring in detention centres is a crucial
people in detention.36
step in the advocacy campaign to end immigration
detention.
At European level, JRS Europe collects, analyses and
publishes comparative reports based on the obser-
In Belgium, amplifying the voices of people detained
vations of JRS detention visitors in 11 countries.37
and improving access to detention facilities to
The aim of this work is to shine a light on detention
provide socio-legal support are two pillars of the
conditions, describing them through the voices of the
Move coalition strategy to end immigration deten-
people detained and those of the visitors. By doing
tion.
The organisations forming Move have been
this, JRS hopes to put pressure for detainees’ rights
members of an informal Belgian platform of accred-
to be respected and, ultimately, to grow consensus
ited visitors to detention centres for twenty years.
to end the use of administrative detention.
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Move reaffirms the right to freedom and challenges
35 Move is a coalition created in 2021 as a joint initiative of Caritas International, CIRÉ, Jesuit Refugee Service Belgium and Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen.
36 Move Coalition, 2021, Toolkit Juridique; Move Coalition, 2021, Guide pour les parlementaires.
37 See JRS Europe, Detention Under The Spotlight. JRS’ call to end immigration detention, [accessed 6 November 2023].
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