Thousands of migrants and refugees who travelled along the Western Balkans’ migration route in 2015 and 2016 are now stranded in Serbia in a precarious legal situation.
In this podcast, Leo Zbanke describes the crucial events that took him as a 10 year old child from Moldova to Russia. He then explains why he was on the move again, as a young adult, fleeing his adoptive home for France.
Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland warned today against the dual problems of smuggling and human trafficking.
Writing ahead of today’s meeting, the Commissioner for Human Rights stated: “As the European Council is set to address the Union’s response to migration, one topic should be prominent on all points of its agenda: states’ obligations to uphold the human rights of migrants.”
Writing in a ‘Comment’ article, the Commissioner for Human Rights states: “It is imperative that states work towards the abolition of migrant detention. This does not mean giving up on managing one’s borders, including decisions over who enters a country and who can stay. It means investing in alternative measures to manage migration effectively, which are not as far-reaching and harmful as detention.”
