Croatia/EU: Strengthen Border Monitoring System

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, October 28, 2015. © 2015 Reuters (Brussels) – Croatia’s recently announced border monitoring mechanism, meant to provide for independent human rights monitoring of border operations, appears to fall short of the standards needed to ensure its effectiveness and success, eight human rights and humanitarian aid organizations said today. Any border monitoring mechanism should be independent in law and practice and have sufficient resources and a robust mandate to monitor border-related…

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