A snapshot from inside the FES Human Rights Award ceremony, with insights from thought leaders, government ministers and civil society champions 🙌 Want to learn more about IDC and why we do what we do? Take a look 👀 🎥 Video by @fesonline.bsky.social

💚 A heartfelt thank you to all our partners, colleagues, and community members who made the launch of the Equitable Partnerships Accountability Toolkit (EPAT) possible. Download the tools → www.asylumaccess.org/epat #ShiftThePower #EPAT #AsylumAccess #EquitablePartnerships #Localization

We are grateful for the honour of receiving the 2025 Human Rights Award from @fesonline.bsky.social This award motivates us, the entire IDC team, to continue working towards ending immigration detention around the world🌎 Thank you to all the members of FES who made this wonderful moment possible

Last night, IDC proudly received the 2025 Human Rights Award from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 🙏 @fesonline.bsky.social Support IDC, visit our website and join the movement to make immigration detention history. ➡️ idcoalition.org #FESAward2025

👀👉 A major boost to the movement to end immigration detention! IDC has won the 2025 FES Human Rights Award 🎉 @fesonline.bsky.social This recognition motivates us to continue working for the freedom of migrants and refugees 🌍 👉 idcoalition.org/news/idc-win... #FESAward2025

#Oct10 #WorldMentalHealthDay 🌍 Immigration detention doesn’t just deprive people of their liberty — it leaves deep, lasting scars on their mental health. 🧠 Learn more: idcoalition.org/news_feature...

👉 Want to know more about why IDC and our award-winning work to defend migrants’ rights matters? ✨ Meet Stella, a grandmother, carer, and human rights activist. Her story reveals the stark reality of immigration detention. 📰 bit.ly/inside-uk-im... #Immigration #ImmigrationDetention #HumanRights

IDC has won the 2025 FES Human Rights Award 🎉 @fesonline.bsky.social This is a shared achievement for our entire movement. 🌍 Learn more about our work. Follow us on social media and get to know us. #Instagram 📷 intldetentioncoalition #FESAward2025

📢 Join us in Banjul, The Gambia, for the first Annual Convening of the SADC Regional Network on ATD, 28–29 October 2025 at the margins of the ACHPR Co-hosted by IDC and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) 🗓 Apply before 13 October 2025 via our website. idcoalition.org/news/2025-an... #ATD #HumanRights

Unser #Menschenrechtspreis 2025 geht an die International Detention Coalition #IDC. www.fes.de/menschenrech... Wir finden, es ist Zeit, mit gängigen Irrtümern und Falschbehauptungen aufzuräumen. 1/4 @idcoalition.bsky.social

💪 Let's make immigration detention history! Join us in shaping a world where human rights transcend all borders 🌎 Get involved! ➡️ idcoalition.org/get-involved #TogetherForChange #FESAward2025

The EP Toolkit is LIVE. Tools to rebuild partnerships around equity → www.asylumaccess.org/epat #ShiftThePower #EPAT #EquitablePartnerships

🎉 IDC has won a major human rights award! This award recognises IDC’s tireless work to end immigration detention and promote the human rights of migrants and refugees worldwide. 💡 @fesonline.bsky.social Visit our page and join our mission! idcoalition.org/news/idc-win... #FESAward2025

"Adherence to treaties has saved lives, upheld human dignity, and protected millions of people from persecution, torture and other human rights abuses." Civil Society Open Letter to States (September 2025) humanrightsfirst.org/library/glob...

🌍🤝 Together, we can end immigration detention for good. IDC unites voices from around the globe to advocate for human rights and a kinder, more just future. Here’s how you can help: 🌐 idcoalition.org/get-involved #TogetherForChange #FESAward2025

We are honoured to announce that IDC has won the 2025 Human Rights Award by @fesonline.bsky.social This award recognises the efforts of our supporters, members and partners in different regions working to end immigration detention & promote human rights-based alternatives www.fes.de/en/human-rig...

Grateful to everyone who joined the launch of our report “From Surveillance to Empowerment: Advancing the Responsible Use of Technology in Alternatives to Detention”, created with the @kaldorcentre.bsky.social and Refugee Law Lab. 📖 Read here 👉 bit.ly/4ndvYr5

🌍 We are honoured to receive the 2025 Human Rights Award from @fesonline.bsky.social We share this honour with our team, members and allies worldwide who work for a world without immigration detention 📅 Join us: 13 October in Berlin for the award ceremony 👉 Learn more: www.fes.de/en/human-rig...

🌍 New IDC Report Beyond Detention: Alternatives to Immigration Detention as a Rights-Based Policy Model At a time when detention is expanding, evidence shows that rights-based alternatives are possible — and effective. 📖 Spanish only 👉 idcoalition.org/wp-content/u... #EndImmigrationDetention #IDC

🌍 New report: From Surveillance to Empowerment Are digital technologies like GPS monitors really alternatives to detention? 🤔 📅 16 Sept | ⏱️ 18:30–19:30 CEST 📍 Geneva Graduate Institute / Online ✍️ Registration required (in-person & online). 🔗 Link: events.humanitix.com/from-surveil...

🚨CAMBIO DE FECHA 🚨 ✨ Les esperamos en nuestro evento paralelo oficial en el Foro Mundial sobre Migración y Desarrollo #GFMD 🌍 En la encrucijada: Avanzando en la gobernanza migratoria con enfoque de género en tiempos de crisis 🗓️ Miércoles, 3 de sept ⏱️ 12:00 h 📍 Sala Plenaria (sede GFMD Riohacha)

🌍 IDC te invita a su evento paralelo en el #GFMD: ✨ Repensando la gobernanza de la migración: detención y alternativas, tecnologías digitales y enfoques interseccionales 🗓️ 3 Sept 2025 | ⏱️ 10:45–12:00 📍 Overflow Auditorium, Riohacha Evento presencial | EN/ES interpretation #Migration #IDC

🌍 IDC joined the panel “Forced returns, deportations and human dignity” during Civil Society Action Day ahead of the #GFMD 🙏 Thanks to the GFMD Civil Society Mechanism for the invitation At the Forum, IDC will keep pushing for a world without immigration detention and for rights-based alternatives

🌍 Carolina Gottardo, Directora de IDC, participó en el panel Tejiendo Narrativas para una Migración Digna, evento preparatorio al #GFMD Celebramos estos espacios que ponen en el centro la dignidad y los derechos de las personas en movilidad Agradecemos a Cancillería de Colombia por la invitación

🌍 New on the IDC website: We look at how migration externalisation policies impact people’s rights and dignity — and why it matters. Read here: idcoalition.org/externalisat... #Migration #HumanRights #IDC #ATD

The International Detention Coalition (IDC) is looking for an Africa Regional Manager to join our team. 📌 Position: Africa Regional Manager 📍 Location: This post will be based in Kenya, South Africa or Senegal. 🗓️ Deadline to apply: 19 September 2025 👉 Apply here: bit.ly/47eH89V #Migration #IDC

🔹 Join IDC as our P2P Project Coordinator – Pathways to Protection (P2P) Programme We are looking for a person with expertise in program management, monitoring and evaluation (MEL), relationship building and policy advocacy 📍 Location: Tunisia 📅 Apply by: 24 August 2025 🔗 Apply now: bit.ly/4oacioJ

🕰️ In the UK, people can be detained indefinitely under immigration powers. The mental health impacts are severe and deeply unjust. IDC calls for a time limit and rights-based alternatives. 🔗 Read more: idcoalition.org/es/news/the-... #EndIndefiniteDetention #MigrationMatters #IDC

🌍 Externalization of borders has an enormous human cost. ✈️ Policies that push people away at borders often lead to rights violations. 📢 We need humane, rights-based responses. Read more: bit.ly/4nj14On #NoBordersToRights #MigrationMatters #IDC

📢 Join us during the Global Week Against Torture 2025 On June 24, @omctorg.bsky.social will host a webinar on migration and torture, featuring Carolina Gottardo from IDC. 🗓️ 24 June | 11:30–13:00 CEST 🌍 Online event | English & French 🔗 Registration lnkd.in/gkQRxdxg

🌍🫂#WorldRefugeeDay Refugee children carry stories of courage and inspiration—standing with them means listening deeply and making way for their lived experience to shape the policies that determine their futures. #childrenmigrants #Americas #June20

🌍🫂#WorldRefugeeDay At IDC, we believe that standing with refugees means promoting alternative, open-door care models that truly protect the dignity of refugee children and adolescents. #childrenmigrants #Mexico #June20

#WorldRefugeeDay 🤝 Alternatives to detention are already working — community-based, rights-respecting and effective. Let’s build a future where refugees are treated with dignity, not detention. #20June #HumanRights

🌍🫂#WorldRefugeeDay This #June20, we reaffirm our unwavering solidarity with refugee communities in the APAC region and globally. The Asia-Pacific region is home to millions of refugees, asylum seekers, and stateless persons, with significant populations from Myanmar and Afghanistan. #APAC

🌍🫂#WorldRefugeeDay In the MENA region, we witness daily the resilience and determination of refugees who refuse to let displacement define their futures. #MENA #Refugees #HumanRights #June20

🧠🧱 Immigration detention harms mental health In the #UK, migrants are held for indefinite periods- anxiety, trauma and hopelessness are the result. 📣 As Carolina Gottardo from IDC states: “Detention should not be used simply due to immigration status.” 🔗 Read the @maldita_es report: bit.ly/4434ufh

IDC shares a training proposal to strengthen the community leadership of migrant children. Learn more about it here bit.ly/3SBTvo0 Available in Spanish _______________________

IDC presents its latest publication on best practices in residential care for migrant children in Mexico: Nurturing childhoods in freedom. Read the complete publication here 👉🏽 bit.ly/4kuunf8 #MigrantChildren Available in Spanish

#Australia Not sure how to respond to misinformation about refugees and migrants? The @kaldorcentre.bsky.social and Behavioural Insights Team created a clear, science-backed framework to help you know when to respond, and how to do it effectively. 🎥 Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkrG...

🚸 Children don’t belong in immigration detention. 🗓️ Join us on 4 June (15:30 CET) for a vital event on ending child detention in Europe. 🎙️ Youth voices, regional solutions, real change. 🔗 Register: forms.gle/apgWLWHQaRGC... #NoChildDetention #TogetherForChange

❗️ Job opportunity with IDC ❗️ We're looking for a MENA Programme Officer 👩‍💻 Find out more on our website vacancies page 👉 bit.ly/3H5JnRH #humanrightsjobs #MENA #advocacyjobs

👪 On 15th May, International Day of Families, we stand for the right to family unity, for all children including migrant children. No child should be detained or separated from their family. There are humane, community-based alternatives. #FamiliesBelongTogether #NoChildDetention

Migration Youth & Children Platform (MYCP), International Detention Coalition (IDC), UNHCR, UNICEF & UN Network on Migration, we invite you to the 2nd Global Youth Consultation on Alternatives to Detention. 🗓️ 15 May 2025 🕰️ 14:30 h (CEST) 📍Online | 🗣️ English 🔗 Register Now: bit.ly/atdyouth2025

🚨 Longer detentions. Fewer safeguards. No guarantees of due process. IDC sounds the alarm on the proposed EU returns regulation — a step backwards for migrant rights. 📚 Read why urgent action is needed: bit.ly/3EQsmKw #RightsOverDetention #NoChildInDetention #EUlaw

⚠️ IDC warns: The proposed Common European System for Returns would mean more people are detained —and for longer— without a guarantee of due process. Children, families, and vulnerable people deserve protection, not prolonged detention. 👉 More information: bit.ly/3EQsmKw #MigrationPolicy

🆕 The IDC has released a new statement on the Proposed Common European System for Returns 2025. If adopted, this proposal could drastically expand detention practices across the EU — putting rights and dignity at risk. 🔗 Read the full analysis: bit.ly/43b3tCA #Migration #HumanRights #EUlaw

Join MYC, UNICEF, UNHCR, IDC & UNNM for the Second Global Youth Consultation on Alternatives to Detention! 🕊️ Help uphold the rights and welfare of every young refugee & migrant on the move - register now! 📅 15 May ⌚️14:30 CEST 🔗 bit.ly/atdyouth2025

IDC is working to end immigration detention for good. In 2023-24, we: 📌 Supported major policy wins 🌍 Co-led UN initiatives on ATD 📢 Amplified migrant voices 🤝 Strengthened civil society partnerships Dive into our impact in the IDC Annual Report: bit.ly/IDC-Annual-R...