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Following the release of the EU鈥檚 鈥榮afe country鈥 and returns proposals, 52 civil society organisations are together calling for the EU and its member states to firmly reject any attempts to weaken protection for asylum seekers.
The raft of recent proposals have raised alarm among NGOs - paving the way for the EU to curtail asylum processes for people seeking asylum from certain countries, make it easier to deport people to countries they have never set foot in, and create so-called 鈥榬eturn hubs鈥 outside of EU territory where people could be at risk of human rights violations.
The signatories to the statement - including the 探花精选 (探花精选), Amnesty International and the Danish Refugee Council - state that 鈥渢he EU seems to be seeking to shift responsibility for refugee protection onto countries outside its borders and sidestep its legal obligations under the Refugee Convention and EU law鈥.
They warn that the EU鈥檚 new proposals are interconnected parts of a broader strategy to externalise the bloc鈥檚 migration management - appearing to signal a retreat from Europe鈥檚 commitment to asylum, and risk contributing to a worrying erosion of refugee protection globally.
