News
Migrant crisis: Europe response is not effective
![](/channels/files/channels/styles/fullwidth_breakpoints_theme_moriarty_small_1x/public/channels/image/thinkstockphotos-535192379.jpg?itok=oKoxnmtT)
Published: 25 August 2015
ƻԺ Law Professor and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, today called on the European Union to establish a human rights-based, coherent and comprehensive migration policy* which makes mobility its central asset. “It is the only way in which the EU can reclaim its border, effectively combat smuggling and empower migrants,” he said in a today.
Check the Special Rapporteur’s June 2015 report on the EU, “Banking on mobility over a generation”, (A/HRC/29/36):
Listen to François Crépeau's take on the migrant crisis in Europe
Why European immigration policies do not work
Solutions to the migrant crisis in Europe