Frontex Reform Needed to Uphold Human Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A man holds a banner during a protest against pushbacks of migrants near the border crossing between Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina in Maljevac, Croatia, June 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Edo Zulic Last week’s resignation of Fabrice Leggeri as the head of Frontex, the European Union border guard agency, should mean more than just a change at the top. Leggeri’s departure comes on the heels of an investigation by the European Union Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) that looked into numerous reports of Frontex’s complicity in illegal “pushbacks”, of forcing asylum seekers who…

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