At No Name Kitchen, watchdog work is not just about telling stories of abuse. It is about being there, every day, where violence happens: building trust, gathering testimonies, naming perpetrators, exposing the structural causes behind border brutality, and turning frontline evidence into pressure, public awareness, legal action, and real change.
Our frontline presence feeds investigations that hit harder because they are rooted in direct evidence, not distance. Recent examples include Frozen Lives, exposing deadly border violence in Bulgaria; The Bulgarian Trap, on coercion and deportation risk for Syrian asylum seekers; and Disposable Lives, on the human cost of EU-Morocco migration deals and practices such as desert dumps.
This work is not only ethical. It is useful. Practical. It changes things.
Sustained denunciation of the systematic theft and burning of belongings at the Croatian border helped contribute to a 30% reduction in that abuse. Our evidence helped stop deportations to Bulgaria in UK courts. Our advocacy pushed both the European Commission and Frontex’s Fundamental Rights Office to call on Bulgaria to comply with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. And in Spain, years of denunciation helped lead to a court ruling declaring sea pushbacks illegal.
This campaign sustains NNK’s watchdog work on border violence. We may be volunteer-based, but this work still has real costs: a bed, hot water, a laptop, wifi, transport, and the basics needed to document abuse properly. Above all, it means having the resources to support people after pushbacks. You cannot ask for testimony from someone who has just been beaten, robbed, or stripped by police without first offering food, clothes, and some basic protection.
Visit www.bloodyborders.org to discover the daily testimonies we gather and see what Europe’s border regime looks like when told from the ground up.
If you believe civil society should not be complicit in illegalities but part of the force that ends them, support this work. Your donation helps keep activist teams on the ground, sustain ethical documentation, protect people after violence, and turn evidence into pressure.
Donate now. Help us keep watching, exposing, and fighting back.
Thank you — for standing with us, for trusting this work, and for helping turn outrage into something real.