‘Death, Despair and Destitution: The human costs of the EU's migration policies’.

By Bianca Benvenuti, Chloe Marshall-Denton, Sophie McCann

This report considers the health and humanitarian consequences of violent policies and practices on people moving along EU migration routes. It details findings from MSF medical humanitarian operations in 12 countries in Europe and Africa, as well as in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Taking stock of MSF operational experiences between August 2021 and September 2023, and drawing upon routine medical and operational data from MSF project and accounts from MSF patients and medical teams during that period, the report highlights how, at every step of people’s migration journey towards and within the EU, their health, wellbeing and dignity have been systematically undermined by the interlinking violent policies and practices embedded in EU and EU member state policies

2024. 44p.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) , 2024. 85p.