Lawyers for Palestine

Each day, in Palestine and in all the Arab villages of Israel, children, young people, men and women are dying under the fire of the Israeli army and settlers. Others are rounded up, and ‘disappear’, are imprisoned and are tortured. This situation, which is in flagrant violation of international law, human rights and the most …

Practice of the Detention of Refugees

Appeal on the Practice of the Detention of Refugees. especially in the countries of the European Union The “Fortress Europe” works almost perfectly. With the Schengen and Dublin agreements as well as national legal restrictions, the countries of the rich Europe have created a “cordon sanitaire” against the migration and refugee movements at their borders …

To live and to work in a multicultural Europe

Thesis for a Manifesto For an open Immigration Policy – Intercultural Integration – Active Protection of Minorities – Antidiscrimination – For the Protection of Politically Pursued Persons in the European Union   I. Immigration Policies in the European Union Increasingly, the states of the European Union coordinate their asylum and immigration policies and have made …

The use of embargo by the UN Security Council

Declaration concerning the use of the economic embargo The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights is deeply concerned about the increasingly frequent resort to the economic embargo as a measure of sanction by the United Nations Security Council, and about the concrete outcome of such embargoes when enforced. Although such embargoes …