Afghan Taliban Set for EU Migration Talks Slammed by Rights Groups
Amnesty says 22 million Afghans need aid and warns returns could expose deportees to persecution, detention and torture under Taliban rule.
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Afghan Taliban set for EU migration talks slammed by rights groups
The EU is expected to hold talks on returning failed Afghan asylum-seekers with a Taliban delegation in Brussels Tuesday after Belgium issued one-day visas for the team, overriding criticisms from human rights groups. The 27-member bloc does not recognise the Taliban administration, but the European Commission invited a team from Kabul for discussions amid a push to boost deportations.
Amnesty International (AI) today urged EU institutions and Member States to abandon plans to deport people to Afghanistan, recalling that Afghanistan is experiencing a serious human rights crisis.
Amnesty International calls on the institutions and Member States of the European Union (EU) to abandon any plans for deportation to Afghanistan and to put an end to any cooperation on readmission with the Taliban de facto authorities. Afghanistan cannot under any circumstances be considered a safe country for return, and this approach will endanger the lives of those who are returned - which several [1] UN bodies [2] have repeatedly stressed. T…
Human Rights Watch says EU member states are undermining their credibility by inviting the Taliban to Brussels. “EU countries are undermining their credibility by condemning human rights abuses by the Taliban and holding them accountable on the one hand, and by cooperating with the Taliban to forcibly deport Afghans on the other,” said Fereshteh Abbasi, Afghanistan researcher at Human Rights Watch, in a statement released today (Saturday, July 2…
Malala criticises EU plan to host Taliban officials for migration talks - HUM News English
LONDON: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday criticised reported European Union plans to host Afghan Taliban officials in Brussels for discussions on a migration arrangement, saying such engagement risks legitimising what she described as a system of “gender apartheid” in Afghanistan. In a video message, Malalan said that she was “shaken and deeply disturbed” by the prospect of talks involving representatives of the Taliban, acc…
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