UN says EU border policy harms human rights

'Within EU institutional and policy structures, migration and border control have been increasingly integrated into security frameworks that emphasise policing, defence and criminality over a rights-based approach,' François Crépeau, the UN special rapporteur on human rights of migrants said on 30 May 2013 at a panel in the European Parliament.

Crépeau has drafted a study on migration and policy concerning transit countries Tunisia and Turkey and entry countries Italy and Greece.

On the same day an agreement has been reached in Brussels on when temporary border controls can be introduced in the European Union's free-movement Schengen area.

Website: François Crépeau http://oppenheimer.mcgill.ca/Francois-Crepeau

ESO: Background Information: EU border agency keen to expand Mediterranean Sea surveillance http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-border-agency-keen-to-expand-mediterranean-sea-surveillance/

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