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Amnesty International has reacted strongly to the agreement between Italy and Albania to establish migrant camps in Gjadra and Shëngjin, describing this model as illegal and dangerous for human rights. According to the organization, this project brings suffering and endangers the lives of migrants, violating Italy's international obligations.
The agreement, signed in November 2023 by Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni and Edi Rama, foresees the construction of two centers in Albania to house migrants rescued at sea by Italian authorities. These centers will be managed by Italy and aim to process around 36,000 asylum applications per year. However, Amnesty International stresses that this model is illegal and unenforceable, violating migrants’ rights and setting a dangerous precedent.
Criticism of this project has increased after Italian court rulings ordered the return of migrants from camps in Albania to Italy, considering it illegal to detain them in a third country without sufficient legal guarantees. Moreover, Amnesty International has warned that the lack of transparency and international standards in these centers could lead to serious human rights abuses.
“ In the Health Care Centers (CPR) in Italy and in the new centers in Albania, people live in degrading conditions, without access to proper care, in a climate of constant abandonment and lack of information. Protests, self-harm and suicide are the most visible symptoms of a system designed to isolate and punish.
The death of Hamid Badoui is a direct consequence of a political system that uses fear and coercion as tools to (mis)manage human mobility. The enactment into law of Albania's new decree, which was passed yesterday through a vote of confidence in the Senate, confirms the government's strategy of focusing on policies that do not respect fundamental human rights, thanks to a purely propagandistic approach.
"Every time a human being ends their life to avoid being included in this system, we are faced with the fundamental failure of public policies implemented towards people of migrant origin. Continuing to support the 'Albanian model' means being complicit in a regime of prohibition and rejection that produces exclusion, suffering, death, " it says.
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