01President
French association (loi 1901) · Pacé, France
A history born of courage
From a collective of survivors to a registered association, one single thread: to give the words of exiled people the place they deserve.
Our story
A struggle born in the jails of the desert
Born out of the Collective of Victims of Torture in Libya, the association Le Prix des Promesses d'Exil continues a struggle begun by survivors of the migration routes and of the Libyan detention camps. Out of suffering came a resolve: to testify, to inform and to act so that these realities are neither ignored nor forgotten.
Registered as a French non-profit association and based in Pacé, it brings together survivors, researchers, lawyers, artists and committed citizens around a single demand: to make heard the voices too often silenced, to defend the dignity of people in exile and to contribute to the search for truth and justice.
Through testimony, awareness-raising, culture and advocacy, Le Prix des Promesses d'Exil works for a better understanding of migration journeys and of the human-rights violations that mark them. Convinced that information is a tool of protection, the association works so that everyone can have access to authentic accounts, grounded in lived experience and in the reality of the ground.
True to its slogan, the association holds a simple conviction: information protects, while smugglers thrive on ignorance. By giving a voice to those who have lived through exile, it helps to inform choices, to dismantle false promises and to strengthen prevention against the dangers of the migration routes.
History
Key moments
A history born of the routes of exile and of voices that refuse silence. It begins with accounts that many would rather not hear: survivors of the Libyan detention camps, who found refuge in France, Germany and Switzerland, carry within them the marks of violence, arbitrary detention and a journey of extreme brutality. Silenced for a long time, in November 2021 they decided to come together.
Making forgotten voices heard
November 2021
Founding of the Collective of Victims of Torture in Libya
It was out of this will to break the silence that the Collective of Victims of Torture in Libya was born. More than a structure, it was first of all a space of speech and of recognition — a place where testimonies become a collective force, and where individual experience turns into shared commitment.
Giving a framework to these words
2021
Becoming a registered association in Bagneux
The movement took shape and was formally constituted as a French non-profit association, declared in Bagneux. This step marked the passage from an initiative of survivors to an organisation able to carry lasting work: gathering accounts, documenting them, passing them on, and beginning a dialogue with civil society and with institutions.
Widening the horizon
Evolution of the project
Birth of Le Prix des Promesses d'Exil
Over time the project evolved: the Collective of Victims of Torture in Libya became Le Prix des Promesses d'Exil. The change of name erases nothing, it widens. It makes room for other accounts, other routes, other exiles. The ambition became broader and more universal: to show the reality of migration journeys in all their complexity, beyond borders and individual situations, through the power of testimony.
Organising in order to act
June 2026
A new phase of development
The association is entering a phase of consolidation. It is strengthening its internal organisation and undertaking a thorough reflection on its direction and its short-, medium- and long-term objectives. This phase aims to root the project durably, to structure its work and to amplify its impact: to inform better, to raise awareness better, and to keep carrying the words of those whom the routes of exile have made invisible.
Today
Le Prix des Promesses d'Exil pursues a simple and essential mission: to bring into existence accounts that are too often ignored. To gather, document and pass on the words of the people concerned by migration journeys. And to recall, tirelessly, that no decision to leave should ever be taken in ignorance.
Governance
An independent and committed board
The board of Le Prix des Promesses d'Exil is made up of four members with complementary paths, combining lived experience of the migration routes, entrepreneurship and civic commitment. United by shared values of solidarity, justice and respect for human dignity, they ensure the sound governance of the association and the fidelity of its work to its mission.
This complementarity makes it possible to combine lived experience, professional skills and civic commitment, in order to bring a balanced and independent view to the association's direction.
Le Prix des Promesses d'Exil is a strictly non-political and non-religious association. Its independence is one of its founding principles: it receives no funding from political parties, partisan movements or religious organisations. That independence guarantees the association's freedom to act and to speak, in the sole service of information, awareness and the defence of human rights.
02Vice-president
Laura HUBERT
03Secretary
AM
Aziz MOUAOUED
04Treasurer
BG
Bocar GANGUE
Transparency
Official documents
Contact
Write to us
For any request — press, partnership, support, testimony — our team will reply as soon as it can.
- 11B chemin Jean François
Le Gonidec 35740 Pacé - contact@leprixdespromessesdexil.fr
- +33 7 67 68 51 87