Advisor to Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights; mainly asylum/migration, also other human rights issues in UK, Netherlands and Slovakia.
Views my own.
Chris Mommers
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Op 11 mei werd het Duitse reddingsschip Sea-Watch 5 beschoten door de Libische kustwacht. Op het schip zaten tientallen migranten die net van een overvolle boot waren gehaald. Wat is er die dag gebeurd?
EU return-hub backers eye partner countries reveal by autumn, says Dutch minister
Discusses some of the details of how the EU might exclude men of military age from temporary protection
At just 10 years old, Northern Ireland currently has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility in the world.
Children belong in schools and playgrounds, not in police cells and prisons.
It’s time to raise the age #TenIsTooYoung
Two migrants are suing Italy in the European Court of Human Rights over its release of a Libyan warlord wanted for crimes against humanity.
"Although cloaked in reassuring language, given its origins, the declaration is likely to go in only one direction – a permanent weakening protection for migrants."
✍️ @alicedonald.bsky.social analyses the Chişinău Declaration on the ECHR and migration adopted in May
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/will-the-chi...
"disguised as a demand for legal certainty, states are claiming that the Court’s case law lacks clarity... This is a thinly veiled attempt to compel the Court to lower standards and chip away at absolute protections."
Politicians playing political football with European Court of Human Rights to gain anti-migrant votes, by @drandrewforde.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
We @hrw.org are seeking a new UK Director to lead our advocacy and communications work in the country. Also office leader for a pretty sizeable London-based staff.
London-based.
In office 2/3 days per week.
Salary range: £87,000- 110,000
Deadline: 21 June
job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...
What now for the European Convention on Human Rights (#ECHR) and migration after the Chisinau Declaration? The reflections of @commissionerhr.coe.int following "a bruising few months for the protection of human rights" (English version in the link)
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
Victims of abuse by institutions and by the British Army have got justice in the Strasbourg court. Why is the Irish Government playing politics with it asks Andrew Forde
Alice Donald analyses the Chişinău Declaration on the European Convention on Human Rights and migration, adopted on 15 May by foreign ministers of the 46-nation Council of Europe
Migratie: Op 11 mei werd het Duitse reddingsschip Sea-Watch 5 beschoten door de Libische kustwacht. Op het schip zaten tientallen migranten die net van een overvolle boot waren gehaald. Wat is er die dag gebeurd? „Als er paniek ontstaat met zoveel mensen op elkaar, wordt het gevaarlijk.”
Now that the Chisinau Political Declaration has been adopted, we find ourselves at a pivotal crossroads. But do our governments truly grasp what is at stake? In an @lemonde.fr oped, I restate some fundamentals.
Read my oped in English👉 go.coe.int/zdxHh
#ECHR #migration @coe.int #humanrights
EU considers tightening protections for military-age Ukrainians
EU governments are considering restricting temporary protection for military-age Ukrainian men, as member states debate balancing support, integration pressures and Ukraine's manpower needs.
