Human Rights and Migration

Good practices on disability rights: no more stones on the road 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 21/03/2017
Nowadays, according to the assessment of the European Disability Forum, about 80 million Europeans have a disability. One in four Europeans has a family member with a disability. Six Europeans out of ten know someone, who has a disability. Thus, the protection of vulnerable people requires urgent attention.
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School-aged refugees: Are they a burden or a social responsibility?0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 13/03/2017
Human Rights Watch: A child we interviewed in 2015 said, “when I picture my future, I see nothing.
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European Elections and Migration: what we’ve learnt – and what to expect 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 10/03/2017
Dealing with the legacy of 2016, 2017 started off as a very uncertain year. Adding to this, four of the founding countries of the European Union will have to go through general, presidential and federal elections. As the optimistic predictions on Brexit and the US went terribly wrong, it is now time to consider what could happen if populism won.
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Indigenous resiliency through renewable energy 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 15/02/2017
From August 2016 through the harsh winter, indigenous communities alongside environmentalists and activists had been protesting in the State of North Dakota, USA. They advocated against the completion of a pipeline that would transfer oil through four States to reach refineries and consumers.
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Europe’s ‘Other’ Refugees: Denying asylum to the continent’s most persecuted minority 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 30/01/2017
The European Commission plans to establish a common list of ‘safe countries of origin’ (SCO) across EU Member States in a bid to deal more efficiently with asylum claims from nationals of countries where persecution is deemed unlikely.
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New European border management – the human cost 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 19/12/2016
According to the speeches on the inauguration day of the newly re-shaped Frontex agency, it seems that the European Union has found the best antidote to the migration challenge so far: the novelty has been labelled a “milestone” in the history of border politics and solidarity between Member States. But Frontex’ new aims focus foremost on control and monitoring, whilst little is said about the asylum system and the refugees’ rights.
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