Ten NGOs demand that EU ‘must not be complicit in the loss of lives at sea’
In a joint statement 10 NGOs including the International Rescue Committee, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Oxfam demanded that “the EU must not be complicit in the loss of lives at sea”.
The Greek authorities have told journalists that those aboard had paid $4,500 to traffickers for a passage to Italy and that they refused help, saying they wanted to continue to their destination. Across the EU migration policy has hardened since the flows of people began to surge in 2015 due to the Syrian civil war, and the union has set aside joint funds to develop Frontex into its largest single body with a staff of 10,000 and the task of helping member states control their borders.
A landmark deal to reform migration policy reached last week aims to relieve the pressure on the EU’s border states, and streamline asylum procedures and deportations.
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