EU border policies focus too much on security instead of human rights, a UN official has said.
"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," Francois Crepeau, the UN special rapporteur on human rights of migrants said on Thursday (30 May) at a panel in the European Parliament.
Crepeau has drafted a study on migrat...
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