By EARLE GALE in London | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-07-16 09:38 Share CLOSE Immigrants climb over the border fence to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, in Fnideq, Morocco, May 18, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
A European Union report claims the bloc s border and Coast Guard agency failed to protect the human rights of asylum seekers trying to enter its jurisdiction.
Analysis of the activities of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, or Frontex, was released on Thursday after a four-month investigation led by eight members of the European Parliament known collectively as the Frontex Scrutiny Working Group.
Tineke Strik, the report s lead author, told The Guardian that the cross-party working group found that Frontex did not fulfill its human rights obligations and therefore did not address, and therefore did not prevent, future violations .
Beijing says it is ‘concerned by the violations of the rights of refugees and migrants by countries such as the United States, the UK, Australia and Canada’UN sessions on migration and housing provide the latest battlegrounds for continued geopolitical sniping
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The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon suspended its online thirty-second session after adopting its concluding observations on the second periodic report of Chile.
Can Ünver, Committee Chairperson, noting that today the Committee had competed the large part of its thirty-second session and hence he would make his concluding remarks, said the COVID-19 pandemic had changed ways of working and this reminded the Committee more than ever that the effective protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families under the provisions of the Convention and regardless of their migratory status should be a priority for all States. And yet, this was the least ratified of all treaty bodies with 56 States parties – an inexplicable phenomena considering the importance of the issues it dealt with, and which affected the lives of millions across the globe, particularly in the c
16 April 2021
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon suspended its online thirty-second session after adopting its concluding observations on the second periodic report of Chile.
Can Ünver, Committee Chairperson, noting that today the Committee had competed the large part of its thirty-second session and hence he would make his concluding remarks, said the COVID-19 pandemic had changed ways of working and this reminded the Committee more than ever that the effective protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families under the provisions of the Convention and regardless of their migratory status should be a priority for all States. And yet, this was the least ratified of all treaty bodies with 56 States parties – an inexplicable phenomena considering the importance of the issues it dealt with, and which affected the lives of millions across the globe, particularly