Ten years after the child appeared dead on a beach in Turkey after having drowned in the attempt to cross Greece, more than 30,000 migrants have died or disappeared in the Mediterranean, he denounced on Tuesday that he considered that Europe “continues to fail” those who seek protection.
The NGO, which uses figures from the International Organization for Migration (IIM), stressed in its statement that Europe “every day renounces its foundational values: human dignity, freedom, equality and human rights.”
In this decade, according to Amnesty International, the European Union (EU) and its member states “have persisted their responsibilities regarding asylum in their countries, no matter how much criticized, condemned and rejected the violations of human rights that involve.”
“Priority externalization policies and border control only causes more suffering and death. The solution is to put people in the center and that the states assume the responsibility of addressing the causes that cause forced displacements, such as climate change,” said the humanitarian organization.
Amnesty International insisted that you cannot “look the other way” and regretted the “unfulfilled promises” in Europe. The member states of the community block, according to their note, had promised to be the home for at least 10 % of the 1.3 million refugees who were in a more vulnerable situation.
