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International Journal of Refugee Law Advance Access originally published online on May 28, 2008
International Journal of Refugee Law 2008 20(2):364-366; doi:10.1093/ijrl/een018
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‘States Should Not Impose Penalties on Arriving Asylum-Seekers’

Thomas Hammarberg

Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe

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[17/03/2008] A minimum of solidarity with those oppressed is to receive them when they are forced to flee. The ‘right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution’ is indeed a key provision in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Sadly, this right is not fully observed in parts of Europe today. Instead, refugees are met with suspicion and too often even placed in detention.

It has to be repeated that some of those who seek to enter Europe have well-founded fear of persecution. They are under threat because of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group. Some of them have already suffered serious ill-treatment in their country of origin. They are refugees . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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