EXODUS is a network of persons and associations in contact with asylum seekers and other foreigners held in airports and transit zones in Europe, grouping chaplains, social workers and legal assistants.

OBJECTIVES

1. Ensure high quality legal representation, social assistance and spiritual support at airports and transit zones to asylum seekers, inadmitted persons and expulsees.
2. Work towards ensuring a fair and humane procedure for asylum seekers and inadmitted passengers across European airports.
3. Monitor legality and respect for human rights in the execution of returns and deportations.

ACTION

1. Exchange information between those present at European airports.
2. Identify good and bad practices at airports.
3. Report and condemn violations and excesses at a European level.
4. Establish and maintain contact with European Institutions (Council of Europe, European Union) and international institutions (UNHCR, IOM, International Civil Aviation Organisation) etc.
5. Establish and maintain contact with professional organisations (IATA, airline companies, airline trade unions) etc.
6. Establish and maintain contact with church organisations, NGOs active in the field of deportations and returns and European refugee organisations etc.
7. Set up and maintain a reciprocal alerting and support network, especially in the case of transfers and returns of passengers between European airports.

MEANS

1. Maintain contact via a closed internet discussion and information sharing group.
2. Set up a web page to provide access and publicise information about and relevant to EXODUS activities.
3. General Assembly each year at a revolving location; conference programme, working groups, guest speakers.
4. Committee to ensure the progression of the network meeting regularly, with a view to setting up a permanent secretariat responsible for maintaining contact among members and with institutions, fundraising and promotion of the network.