migration crisis

All governments, and especially those of wealthy nations, should step up their support for refugees, Oxfam said today in response to UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report. The report shows a record number of forcibly displaced people in the world for the seventh year in a row.

Oxfam is calling for the EU and its member states to fundamentally change their approach to managing migration.

EU deal with Turkey fails to respect the spirit of international and EU laws, and is tantamount to trading human beings for political concessions.

When European leaders discuss border closures by countries on the Western Balkans migrant route at their meeting in Brussels today, they put border security ahead of people’s safety, Oxfam criticized.

Selective border closures and quota for people on the move greatly increase human suffering and clearly infringe international and European law that protect the right to seek asylum, a coalition of 26 NGOs criticise in a joint statement.

Oxfam welcome the European Commission’s proposal a new humanitarian aid mechanism to support people on the move. However, European leaders need to find political solutions to overcome the migration crisis.