On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, on 20 June, EuroMed Rights is publishing three fact-sheets highlighting the alarming conditions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey, where the security and rights of citizens and people on the move alike are under serious threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this symbolic day, we salute and pay tribute to the resilience of all those forced to flee their country, their family, their environment, to escape conflicts, precariousness, political persecution, or climate disasters. But this solidarity cannot be reduced to a single date. It must be constant, active, and concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The European Commission’s legislative proposal, last April, to list Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey as “safe countries of origin” poses a serious threat to the rights of people on the move. It paves the way for fast-tracked asylum procedures for nationals of these countries, often at border or transit zones, that lead to limited procedural safeguards and impose a higher burden of proof on applicants to refute the presumption of safety. In line with this, the Commission is proposing a revision of the \u201csafe third country\u201d concept. If these proposed legislative changes are implemented, people on the move could then be deported to countries where they have simply transited, or never even stayed at all, as long as there is an agreement, even an informal one, obliging the country in question to assess protection and asylum claims. Appeals against these return decisions will no longer have an automatic suspensive effect. All together, these measures increase the risk of deportation without a full, individual, and meaningful assessment of asylum claims or protection measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To denounce these latest anti-immigration and criminalizing proposals, EuroMed Rights, in partnership with the Association Marocaine des Droits Humains (AMDH), the Association Tunisienne des Femmes D\u00e9mocrates (ATFD), ARCI, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights (CIHRS), CNCD-11.11.11, the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), \u0130nsan Haklar\u0131 Derne\u011fi (IHD), La Cimade, the Ligue des droits de l\u2019Homme (LDH), Migreurop, OMCT and Refugees Platform in Egypt, publish three country-specific fact sheets documenting violence and human rights violations suffered in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey. While the Commission proposes to designate them as \u201csafe\u201d on paper, we show how these countries violate rights and are, in reality, unsafe for their citizens and people on the move alike.
Faced with this reality, EuroMed Rights and its members and partners reaffirm their firm opposition to the notions of “safe countries of origin” and “safe third countries,” which run counter to the fundamental rights and values proclaimed and supposedly defended by the European Union. If the EU is serious about defending human rights, it must renounce policies that violate rights, are dangerous and discriminatory, whether it be a list of “safe countries”, flawed concepts of “safety\u201d, or any instrument aimed at externalizing its responsibilities for international protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Journ\u00e9e mondiale des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9.es : D\u00e9construire le mythe des pays \u00ab s\u00fbrs \u00bb dans la politique de retour de l\u2019UE
\u00c0 l’occasion de la Journ\u00e9e mondiale des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9.es, le 20 juin, EuroMed Droits publie trois fiches d’information mettant en lumi\u00e8re les conditions alarmantes en \u00c9gypte, en Tunisie et en Turquie, o\u00f9 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et les droits des citoyen.nes et des personnes en migration sont gravement menac\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En cette journ\u00e9e symbolique, nous saluons et rendons hommage \u00e0 la r\u00e9silience de toutes les personnes contraintes de fuir leur pays, leur famille, leur environnement, pour \u00e9chapper aux conflits, \u00e0 la pr\u00e9carit\u00e9, aux pers\u00e9cutions politiques ou aux catastrophes climatiques. Mais cette solidarit\u00e9 ne se r\u00e9duit pas \u00e0 une seule date. Elle doit \u00eatre constante, active et concr\u00e8te.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
La proposition l\u00e9gislative de la Commission europ\u00e9enne, en avril dernier, d’inscrire l’\u00c9gypte, la Tunisie et la Turquie sur la liste des \u00ab pays d’origine s\u00fbrs \u00bb constitue une grave menace pour les droits des personnes exil\u00e9es. Elle ouvre la voie \u00e0 des proc\u00e9dures d’asile acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9es pour les ressortissants de ces pays, aux fronti\u00e8res ou dans les zones de transit, qui limitent les garanties proc\u00e9durales et imposent une charge de la preuve plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e aux demandeur.euses pour r\u00e9futer la pr\u00e9somption de s\u00e9curit\u00e9. Dans le m\u00eame ordre d’id\u00e9es, la Commission propose une r\u00e9vision du concept de \u00ab pays tiers s\u00fbr \u00bb . Si ces modifications l\u00e9gislatives propos\u00e9es sont mises en oeuvre, les personnes en migration pourraient alors \u00eatre expuls\u00e9es vers des pays o\u00f9 elles ont simplement transit\u00e9, ou m\u00eame o\u00f9 elles n’ont jamais mis les pieds, \u00e0 condition qu’il existe un accord, m\u00eame informel, acceptant le pays en question \u00e0 \u00e9valuer les demandes de protection. Les recours contre ces d\u00e9cisions de retour n’auront plus d’effet suspensif automatique. Dans l’ensemble, ces mesures augmentent le risque d’expulsion sans une \u00e9valuation compl\u00e8te, individuelle et significative des demandes d’asile ou des mesures de protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pour d\u00e9noncer ces derni\u00e8res propositions anti-immigration et criminalisantes, EuroMed Droits, en partenariat avec l’Association Marocaine des Droits Humains (AMDH), l’Association Tunisienne des Femmes D\u00e9mocrates (ATFD), ARCI, le Cairo Institute for Human Rights (CIHRS), CNCD-11.11.11, le Conseil grec pour les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s (GCR), \u0130nsan Haklar\u0131 Derne\u011fi (IHD), La Cimade, la Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH), Migreurop, l’OMCT et Refugees Platform in Egypt, publie trois fiches d’information sp\u00e9cifiques \u00e0 chaque pays documentant les violences et les violations des droits de l’homme subies en \u00c9gypte, en Tunisie et en Turquie. Alors que la Commission propose de les d\u00e9signer comme \u00ab s\u00fbrs \u00bb sur le papier, nous d\u00e9montrons comment ces pays bafouent les droits et sont, en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, dangereux tant pour leurs citoyen.nes que pour les personnes en migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Face \u00e0 cette r\u00e9alit\u00e9, EuroMed Droits, ses membres et ses partenaires, r\u00e9affirment leur ferme opposition au concepts de \u00ab pays d’origine s\u00fbrs \u00bb et de \u00ab pays tiers s\u00fbrs \u00bb, qui va \u00e0 l’encontre des droits fondamentaux et des valeurs proclam\u00e9es, pr\u00e9tendument d\u00e9fendus par l’Union europ\u00e9enne. Si l’UE veut vraiment d\u00e9fendre les droits de l’Homme, elle doit renoncer \u00e0 des politiques attentatoires aux droits, mortif\u00e8res et discriminatoires, qu’il s’agisse d’une liste de \u00ab pays s\u00fbrs \u00bb, de concepts erron\u00e9s de \u00ab s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00bb ou de tout instrument visant \u00e0 externaliser ses responsabilit\u00e9s en mati\u00e8re de protection internationale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The infosheet \u201cSafe on Paper, Unsafe in Reality: Tunisia and EU Return Policy\u201d is available in English<\/strong><\/a> and French<\/a><\/strong>. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n The infosheet \u201cSafe on Paper, Unsafe in Reality: Egypt and EU Return Policy\u201d is available in English<\/a><\/strong> and French<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n The infosheet \u201cSafe on Paper, Unsafe in Reality: Turkey and EU Return Policy\u201d is available in English<\/a><\/strong> and French<\/a><\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the occasion of the World Refugee Day, on 20 June, EuroMed Rights is publishing three fact-sheets highlighting the alarming conditions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey, where the security and rights of citizens and people on the move alike are under serious threat. On this symbolic day, we salute and pay tribute to the resilience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gcr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11336,"href":"https:\/\/gcr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions\/11336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcr.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}