12 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. 35 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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