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Wed 12 May 2021 10.04 EDT
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Informal cooperation between states has prevented thousands of women, men and children from seeking protection in Europe this year, according to a report released by nine human rights organisations.
The Protecting Rights at Borders (Prab) initiative has recorded 2,162 cases of âpushbacksâ at different borders in Italy, Greece, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Hungary carried out on the basis of bilateral agreements between countries, which resulted in them circumventing their responsibilities and pushing unwanted groups back outside the EU.
The report comes as Greece was also singled out for criticism on Wednesday with Europeâs top human rights watchdog urging a halt to the practice of pushing back migrants at the land and sea borders it shares with Turkey.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/04/30
Over 20 migrants rights organizations have sent a letter to the Italian government to ask for the withdrawal of a regulation which they claim hinders the regularization of migrants, harming those who want to emerge from invisibility.
A group of over 20 migrants rights groups has sent a letter to Italian Premier Mario Draghi and members of his government denouncing that a recent regulation approved on April 21 will hinder the regularization of migrants, penalizing those who want to become legal residents. Despite the strong delay with which applications for regularization are proceeding and the gravity of the situation that has ensued, the ministry of interior, with a circular (regulation) released on April 21, 2021, instead of favoring the emersion of over 200,000 people who have started the procedure, is creating new and further obstacles, penalizing once again th