For a Europe that truly protects: Joint NGO policy brief on the screening regulation proposal
In September 2020, the European Commission presented its proposal on a new Pact on Migration and Asylum, promising a ‘fresh start’ to Europe’s approach to migration. The Pact introduced a number of legislative proposals that are currently being examined in the European Parliament and the Council, including the Regulation introducing a screening of third country nationals at the external borders.
While a new start is urgently needed to ensure Europe’s approach to migration upholds key EU values of human dignity, equality, equity and human rights, 23 NGOs working in Greece – all signatory to this briefing – have serious concerns about elements of the proposed Screening Regulation.
This policy brief outlines the most worrying potential impacts of the proposed Screening Regulation in relation to the protection of asylum seekers and children and their rights. Drawing on experience from our collective work in Greece and testimonies of asylum-seekers we have worked with, it also provides recommendations for amending the current proposal.
Read the Joint NGO Policy Brief on the Screening Regulation Proposal in the attached file.
About Us
The Network for Children’s Rights acquired non-profit organisation status in 2004, but actually began as an informal action group four years earlier with the aim of raising awareness of problems relating to the righs of children and interceding in order to solve them. It encourages initiatives and actions to ensure that the UN International Convention on the Rights of the Child is implemented in Greece, to guarantee respect for diversity and to put an end to discrimination. Its members are teachers, parents, university lecturers, authors, artists and children who work on a voluntary basis both within and outside the school community. They carry out surveys, campaigns and programmes.
More
+30 210 8846590
diktio@ddp.gr
