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- Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights: EU border control policies negatively affect human rights
Council of Europe: Commissioner for Human Rights: EU border control policies negatively affect human rights
08 November 2013
""The EU externalisation of border control policies has a deleterious effect on human rights, in particular the right to leave a country, which is a prerequisite to the enjoyment of other rights – most importantly, the right to seek asylum", said today Nils Muižnieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, while releasing a research paper on the right to leave a country."
See the full text:
EU border control policies negatively affect human rights (link)
And see: Issue Paper:
The right to leave a country (pdf)