Bosnia and Herzegovina: Rights of Detained Migrants at Risk

The organization believes that BiH's treatment of detained migrants should raise concerns among governments considering sending additional migrants to the country.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Rights of Detained Migrants at Risk

Click to expand Image A migrant family from Afghanistan approaches Croatia's border near Bosanska Bojna, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to reach the European Union, in January 2021. © 2021 Photo by Damir Sagolj/Getty Images Bosnia and Herzegovina’s treatment of detained migrants should raise concerns for governments considering sending additional migrants to the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Processing delays, limited access to lawyers, and c…

The Human Rights Observatory calls on the EU and the UK not to treat the Balkans as a "warehouse for immigrants" - World Stock Market

The Non -Governmental Organization of Human Rights Observatory (HRW) warns today that the European Union and the United Kingdom must stop treating the Balkans “as a warehouse for immigrants” and review their plans to transform third countries into such warehouses to send them there for the EU. Its borders, through a mechanism that allows Member States to open these centers to countries outside the EU to send persons whose asylum request has been…

In its communication, HRW refers to the growing trend of deportation of asylum-seekers and migrants rejected to countries outside the European Union (EU), in particular the Balkans region. "Instead of treating the Balkans as a refugee stock, the European Union and the United Kingdom could play an important role in supporting the development of functional asylum systems and better structures for the protection of the rights of migrants," proposed…

Human Rights Watch (HRW), an organization for the protection of human rights, warned today that the treatment of detained migrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be of concern to governments.