The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, will undertake a one-year comprehensive study to examine the rights of migrants in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
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Denmark failed to protect rights of victims of racist attack - UN
- 20 April 2012
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has ruled that Danish authorities failed to investigate the racist nature of a violent assault by 35 Danish youngsters against an Iraqi family in their house in the town of Soro.
Italy: Tunisian citizens deported with parcel tape over their mouths
- 18 April 2012
The degrading treatment occurred yesterday on the Rome-Tunis flight. A witness: "Passengers were indifferent, they told me it was a normal police operation"
Another report shows Nato and others left boat people to die
- 16 April 2012
Another report provides evidence that Nato and other European countries abandoned and contributed to the deaths of 63 refugees who were fleeing Libya last year.
UN asks Lebanon to investigate suicide of migrant domestic worker
- 03 April 2012
The Government of Lebanon should carry out a full investigation into the death of Alem Dechasa, a 33-year-old Ethiopian migrant domestic worker who committed suicide on Wednesday 14th March 2012, United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Gulnara Shahinian, has said.
