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Catriona Jarvis representing Last Rights speaks at the UN on the unlawful death of refugees and migrants. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Agnes Callamard, said a “human rights and humanitarian crisis is unfolding in front of our very eyes” and “its direct victims are refugees and migrants.”
Catriona Jarvis
20 October 2017

Last Rights Documents

Statement on the draft General Comment Enforced Disappearances in the context of migration
Last Rights
16 August 2023
Memorial Of Grief & Grievances
Rivesaltes Conference
24 March 2023
MEMORIAL DE DUELO Y AGRAVIOS
Rivesaltes Conference
24 March 2023
MÉMORIAL DE LA DOULEUR ET DES DOLEANCES
Rivesaltes Conference
24 March 2023
ΜΝΗΜΕΙΟ ΠΕΝΘΟΥΣ & ΑΙΤΙΑΣΕΩΝ
Rivesaltes Conference
24 March 2023
Public Statement - Memorial Of Grief & Grievances
Rivesaltes Conference
24 March 2023
The Dead The Missing and the Bereaved: Is Objective 8 Still a Priority?
Dr Danai Angeli
19 May 2021
Last Rights Statement regarding pushbacks for OHCHR
Dr Danai Angeli, Syd Bolton and Catriona Jarvis
2 February 2021
Every Body Counts: Death, Covid-19 and Migration: Understanding the Consequences of Pandemic Measures on Migrant Families
Syd Bolton and Catriona Jarvis
29 January 2021
Dignified Treatment of the Human Remains of Migrants under Pandemic Measures
Cynthia Orchard, Catriona Jarvis, Syd Bolton, Bea Abbott, Filippo Furri, Dr Lorena Núñez Carrasco, and Dr Danai Angeli
5 April 2021
Every Body Counts: Comentarios Concluyentes y Recomendaciones
Syd Bolton and Catriona Jarvis
29 January 2021
Every Body Counts: Recommandations
Syd Bolton and Catriona Jarvis
29 January 2021
Every Body Counts: Raccomandazioni
Syd Bolton and Catriona Jarvis
29 January 2021
Every Body Counts: لتوصيات
Syd Bolton and Catriona Jarvis
29 January 2021
Every Body Counts: a summary of our report
Syd Bolton and Catriona Jarvis
29 January 2021
The Last Rights Project COVID-19 Pandemic Statement
Syd Bolton and Catriona Jarvis
24 March 2020
Δήλωση αναφορικά με την πανδημία του ιού COVID-19 και την κατάσταση των νεκρών, των αγνοουμένων και των πενθούντων μεταναστών και των οικογενειών τους
Last Rights
24 Μαρτίου 2020
Border Deaths : Causes, Dynamics and Consequences of Migration-related Mortality
Ed. Cuttitta, Paolo; Last, Tamara, Amsterdam Univerity Press: Chapter 8 "Moving forward - Between Utopian and Dystopian Visions of Migration Politics" by Huub Dijstelbloem, Carolyn Horn and Catriona Jarvis
2019
GCM Indicators: Objective 8: Save lives and establish coordinated international efforts on missing migrants
Syd Bolton and Catriona Jarvis, Refugee Law Initiative
June 2019
Who cares about the identities of the dead?
Marion MacGregor, InfoMigrants
June 2019
Last Rights Extended Legal Statement and Commentary
Last Rights
30 January 2019
Protecting the rights of the refugees who don't make it
Eva Tomara, Kathimerini
9 November 2018
GCM Commentary: Objective 8: Save lives and establish coordinated international efforts on missing migrant
Syd Bolton and Catriona Jarvis
18 October 2018
How many migrants have died in the Mediterranean and where are they buried?
Fabien Leboucq, La Liberation
9 August 2018
Πρωτοβουλία για τους μετανάστες που δεν τα καταφέρνουν ...
EΥΑ ΤΟΜΑΡΑ, Kathimerini
August 2018
Protecting migrants – value of life and respect of the dead
Syd Bolton & Catriona Jarvis, European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
June 2018
The future of politics will be dominated by migration"
Catriona Jarvis, The Guardian letters page
21 June 2018
The Mytilini Declaration for the Dignified Treatment of all Missing and Deceased Persons and their Families as a Consequence of Migrant Journeys
Last Rights
May 2018
الموقعون ادناه
نحن
May 2018
Para el tratamiento digno de todas las personas desaparecidas y fallecidas y sus familias como consecuencia de los viajes migratorios (La Declaración Mitilini)
Last Rights
Mayo 2018
Εμείς, οι κάτωθι υπογράφοντες, συμφωνήσαμε την παρούσα Διακήρυξη για την Αξιοπρεπή Μεταχείριση όλων των Προσώπων που Αγνοούνται και Απεβίωσαν καθώς και των Οικογενειών τους συνεπεία των Μεταναστευτικών Ταξιδιών
Last Rights
Μάιος 2018
Noi sottoscritti redigiamo questa dichiarazione Per un Decorso Trattamento di tutti i Dispersi e Deceduti lungo le Rotte Migratorie e delle loro Famiglie (La Dichiarazione di Mitilene)
Last Rights
Maggio 2018
Nous, soussignés, affirmons dans cette déclaration pour un traitement digne de toutes les personnes disparues et décédées pendant leurs parcours migratoires et de leurs familles (La déclaration de Mytilène)
Last Rights
Mai 2018
Wir, die Unterzeichner dieser Erklärung, treten ein für den würdevollen Umgang mit allen vermissten und verstorbenen Migranten und ihren Familien (Erklärung von Mytilini)
Last Rights
Mai, 2018
İşbu deklarasyonda (Midilli Deklarasyonu) imzası bulunanlar olarak göç yolculukları sonucunda kaybolan ve hayatını kaybedenler ile ailelerinin onurlu muamele görmeleri için temel yaşam hakkını
Last Rights
Mayis 2018
First Perspectives on the Zero Draft for the the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London - School of Law) & Tugba Basaran
5 February 2018
The Dead, the Missing and the Bereaved at Europe’s International Borders" a Proposal for a Statement of the International legal obligations of States
Last Rights
September 2017
"The Human Rights of the Dead: a brief sketch". Transcript of a paper presented at a public meeting at the London School of Economics on the on "Migrant deaths at European borders: states' duties to identify and the rights of families to know"
Claire Moon
22 March 2017
Hearts tired of all talk
The Institute of Race Relations, Catriona Jarvis and Syd Bolton
February 2017
Cross Border Deaths on the Journey to Europe: Towards a Legal Framework
Short version from the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights [CSHR]
14 April 2016
Cross Border Deaths on the Journey to Europe: Towards a Legal Framework
Full version from the LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights [CSHR]
14 April 2016
"In Potters’ Fields”, a viewpoint piece that seeks to throw light on the issues and calls for action including the development of a guiding protocol.
Catriona Jarvis
November 2015
Migrant journeys: respecting the dead
an interview with Catriona Jarvis of Last Rights, The Institute of Race Relations, Frances Webber
November 2015

Last Rights Newletters

Newsletter 11: Methoria Newsletter January 2024
January 2024
Newsletter 10: New Developments And Updates On The Work Of Last Rights Summer 2022
July 2022
Newsletter 9: General news and an introduction to First Rights
April 2021
Newsletter 8: The English Channel becomes the latest migrant graveyard
November 2020
Newsletter 7: New Developments
March 2019
Newsletter 6: The Mytilini Declaration
November 2018
Newsletter 5: Data Protection Rights
May 2018
Newsletter 4: Lesbos Conference
May 2018
Newsletter 3: London Fundraiser Report
May 2018
Newsletter 2: Developimng New Guidelines
February 2018
Newsletter 1: An Introduction to Last Rights
November 2017
Newsletter Archive

Last Rights Press Releases

72nd Session of UN General Assemble Side-Event on Unlawful Death of Refugees and Migrants
October 2017

Last Rights Other Documents

Border Deaths : Causes, Dynamics and Consequences of Migration-related Mortality
Ed. Cuttitta, Paolo; Last, Tamara, Amsterdam Univerity Press
2019
Greek National Human Rights Commission Adoption of Mytilini Declaration
GNCHR
March 2019
Identification des personnes migrantes décédées aux frontières maritimes marocaines
(French) by Plateforme Nationale Protection Migrants (PNPM)
February 2019
Statement of the Greek National Commission on Human Rights on its Adoption of the Mytilini Declaration
GNCHR
7th February 2019
On Sea Rescue: A trade union statement
Montreuil
15th November 2018
Caravan of Mothers of missing migrants historic launch of global movement of families of the missing
by IOM
November 2018
Identifying Migrant Bodies in the Mediterranean
by Ottavia Ampuero Villagran (United Nations University, Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility)
October 2018
Derechos más allá de la muerte
Ana González-Páramo
June 2018
List of 34,361 documented deaths of refugees and migrants due to the restrictive policies of "Fortress Europe
by UNITED
5th May 2018
Missing Migrants and their Families - The ICRC's Recommendations to Policy-Makers
International Committee of the Red Cross
December 2017
Respecting the Dead
Institute of Race Relations, Frances Webber
June 2017
UN Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Agnes Callamard, submitted in accordance with Assembly resolution 71/198
15th August 2017
Vol. 1, A Report, from the International Organization for Migration, on the 'Tracking Lives Lost during Migration'
Vol. 2, A Report, from the International Organization for Migration, on the 'Identification and Tracing of Dead and Missing Migrants'
Vol. 3, Part 1, A Report, from the International Organization for Migration, on the Improving Data on Missing Migrants'
VVol. 3, Part 2, A Report, from the International Organization for Migration, on the Improving Data on Missing Migrants'

Last Rights Further Information

The Mediterranean Missing Project
Greek Forum of Refugees
International Committee of the Red Cross
IOM GMDAC International Organization for Migration Global Migration Data Analysis Center
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Colibri Human Rights Centre
Institute of Race Relations
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Monash Border Crossing Observatory
International Committee of the Red Cross: Missing Migrants