Tuesday, 17 November 2015
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Desperate Journey: Europe’s Refugee Crisis
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(Brussels, November 17, 2015) – European Union governments should take urgent action to bring Europe’s response to the refugee challenge, now a full blown EU crisis, in line with their legal responsibilities and stated values, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 16-page report, “Europe’s Refugee Crisis: An Agenda for Action,” analyzes the failings of the EU governments’ response to the crisis and sets out recommendations to improve Europe’s response across four broad areas: reducing the need for dangerous journeys; addressing the crisis at Europe’s borders; fixing the EU’s broken asylum system; and ensuring EU cooperation with other countries that improves refugee protection and respect for human rights.
“In a world of increasing displacement, conflict, and human rights abuse, EU leadership is more important than ever,” said Judith Sunderland, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Unless EU governments take responsibility and act together to ensure protection and humane treatment for the people in Europe and at its borders, these governments can offer no credible lessons to other countries about asylum and migration.”
“In a world of increasing displacement, conflict, and human rights abuse, EU leadership is more important than ever,” said Judith Sunderland, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Unless EU governments take responsibility and act together to ensure protection and humane treatment for the people in Europe and at its borders, these governments can offer no credible lessons to other countries about asylum and migration.”
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