IOM uses UN immunity to avoid scrutiny of Greek returns

“IOM, the UN’s migration agency, is claiming UN immunity to justify its refusal to release documents about its EU-funded Assisted Voluntary Returns and Reintegration (AVRR) programme in Greece.

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Chris Jones, executive director at the pro-transparency NGO Statewatch, said IOM’s position was a “structural absurdity”.

“International organisations are now carrying out what are, in effect, sensitive state functions,” he told The New Humanitarian. “Yet they remain insulated from the very accountability mechanisms that supposedly bind states.””

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