April 10 () –
The NGO Amnesty International (AI) has regretted that the Pact on Migration and Asylum approved this Wednesday by the Parliament of the European Union, which will inevitably “lead to greater human suffering, represents a “missed opportunity” to put Human Rights at the forefront. center of the common migration policy.
“For people who have fled conflict, persecution or economic insecurity, these reforms will mean reduced protection and a widespread risk of facing human rights violations in Europe, including violent and illegal pushbacks, arbitrary detention and discriminatory policing.” , the director of AI's European Institutions office, Eve Geddie, said in a statement.
In this sense, he stated that Europe has missed an opportunity to unconditionally defend the right of people to seek asylum, regardless of where they come from or how they arrived on the continent.
“This is a failure to show global leadership in protecting refugees and building safe, fair and dignified pathways for people to reach Europe, whether in search of safety or opportunity,” he added. Geddie.
Finally, he stressed that the NGO will continue to show “solidarity with refugees and migrants, those affected by racism, discrimination, violence or human rights abuses on European borders and beyond.”
Other NGOs, such as the Spanish Commission for Refugee Assistance (CEAR), Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Save the Children, also criticized the pact, which will reform the common policy with greater control of the external borders of the European Union and It will offer governments 'solidarity a la carte' that will allow them to avoid taking in resettled migrants if they pay compensation for each rejected transfer.
