Due to unanswered distress calls, obstruction of humanitarian rescue efforts and pushbacks to Libya, the EU shares blame for the deaths of hundreds of migrants traveling across the Mediterranean route, a United Nations report finds.
A new law passed by the Spanish parliament prohibits stripping migrants under age 18 to ascertain their age, a method that the UN has said violates the migrants' dignity. The law will come into force in June.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/03/15
UNHCR has expressed concerns over a recent decision by the Hungarian government that restricts access to asylum in the country and has asked the government to ensure the rights of asylum seekers to enter the country and request protection.
The UN refugee agency UNHCR deplores the recent decision of the Hungarian government to extend a decree that authorizes the police to automatically and summarily remove anyone intercepted for irregular entry and stay, it said in a statement issued on March 10.
The UN agency underscored that, as a result of this decision, people who may be in need of international protection are denied access to territory and asylum procedures. Since 2016, the Hungarian authorities have forcibly removed more than 71,000 people.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/03/12
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has said that the conditions to which detained migrants are subjected on Malta could be considered as inhuman and degrading treatment.
In a report published on Wednesday (March 10), the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) expressed worry about the treatment of migrants in Malta. They said that migrants faced poor conditions . which verged on institutional mass neglect by the authorities.
They said that Malta needed to urgently improve its immigration system, to ensure that migrants are treated with dignity.
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/03/01
A year after the deadly clashes between migrants and Greek border guards at the Greek-Turkish border, EU lawmaker Erik Marquardt has called on the bloc to launch infringement proceedings against Greece over alleged human rights abuses against migrants.
Had the bullet hit him slightly higher or lower, he wouldn t be alive today. That s what a doctor told him a year ago at the Greek-Turkish border, Syrian Muhammad Hantou told German news agency
dpa.
Hantou was shot when he, like thousands of others, tried to cross into the EU. Grey scars reveal the injury at his ear, which still impairs him. Sometimes he s dizzy, and he cannot concentrate very long, he says.