On 27 May 2004, the Italian branch of the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced that its volunteers were denied access to the Identification Centres for asylum seekers in Otranto and Borgo Mezzanone (both in Apulia, southern Italy). The organisation considers this refusal of entry a response to the publication by MSF in January of a critical report on the situation in Italian Centri di Permanenza temporanea
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Kofi Annan speech at the European Parliament
A Europe open to well managed migration will be fairer, richer, stronger, says Secretary-General in Brussels address
UNHCR proposals (JHA Dublin)
HCR press release - HCR Ruud Lubbers advocates the creation of european centres for asylum seekers to facilitate the deportation of those who were not granted the status.
The international relations of the « New » extra-territorial approaches to refugee protection
The “UK approach” and UNHCR’s “Convention Plus” has stressed the debate around the possibility of states adopting extra-territorial approaches to asylum processing and refugee protection. The idea of “de-territorializing” raises the issue of its compatibility with international refugee and human rights law.
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