EU’s approach to migrants: humanitarian rhetoric, inhumane treatment

The European Commission is working on its ‘comprehensive migration agenda’ while migrants continue to die at sea. Its tenets should be self-evident, yet some proposals for it are troubling. The authors are from Human Rights Watch. Commentary feature.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Commission makes progress on a European Agenda on Migration http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-commission-makes-progress-on-a-european-agenda-on-migration/

ESO: Background information: Mediterranean migrants: Hundreds feared dead after boat capsizes http://www.europeansources.info/record/mediterranean-migrants-hundreds-feared-dead-after-boat-capsizes/

ESO: Background information: Trivialising migrant deaths: why words matter http://www.europeansources.info/record/trivialising-migrant-deaths-why-words-matter/

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