Berlin/Osnabrück, October 18, 2024 - While the demands for rejections to human rights on the borders are also getting louder in Germany, the migration strategy even provides for a suspension of asylum law. This disregard for international law, in particular children's rights, must not accept the EU and never become a precedent.
The children's rights organization Terre des Hommes follows the criticism of Polish civil society. This had described new strategy as a de facto attack on human rights Teresa Wilmes, a speaker in the European program of Terre des Hommes: »The humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border is already drastically concerned. Children, adolescents and adults have to persevere in the forest for days and sometimes learn massive violence from the Polish authorities in illegal pushbacks. In view of this suffering, we make it clear that disregard for international law is not a migration strategy and must never become. All EU member states must ensure that children and their families have access to fair asylum procedures-everything else is betrayal of the basic values of the community. «
Terre des Hommes has been working with organizations of Polish civil society since 2022 to ensure the care of refugee children and adolescents in the border area with food, dry clothing and medication. With the announcements of the Polish government, it can be expected that the illegal practice of pushbacks will continue and even intensify.
Further information: https://www.tdh.de/was-wir-tun/projekte/europa/kinder-auf-der-flucht