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GENEVA / MIGRANT CONTROL
STORY: OHCHR / MIGRANT CONTROL
TRT: 02:38
SOURCE: OHCHR / CREDIT EPA
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 FEBRUARY 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE
OHCHR - 25 FEBRUARY 2016 GENEVA
1. Close up, UN Flag
2. Wide shot, Palais Wilson
3. Close up, Palais Wilson
4. Med shot, Colville walks by
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson:
“We are very concerned now with the results of this policy of the five countries police forces and the content of the agreement as well. Basically it seems to be resulting in already now chain deportations back down the line of countries towards Greece, without proper procedures to find out whether or not they are refugees or who they are etc.”
STILL – CREDIT EPA
6. Zoom out, woman pushed back by police
OHCHR - 25 FEBRUARY 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson:
“It is really important, these five police forces and indeed the countries, the Governments, need to abide by international law for the protection of the human rights of everyone and that includes both refugees and migrants.”
STILL – CREDIT EPA
8. Zoom out, father and son
OHCHR - 25 FEBRUARY 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson:
“The High Commissioner is urging these five countries to rethink this agreement that their police forces drew up among themselves, a week or so ago. It needs to be brought into line with international law and indeed EU law.”
STILL – CREDIT EPA
10. Zoom in, migrants on fence
OHCHR - 25 FEBRUARY 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson:
“There is also the issue of documentation, so the agreement appears to allow, simply refusing entry to someone, because they don’t have a valid travel document. And of course, many refugees have to flee without documents. They are not able to go and ask the State that is persecuting them to issue them a document.”
STILLS – CREDIT EPA
12. Zoom in, children behind a barrier
13. Zoom in, woman with child
OHCHR - 25 FEBRUARY 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson:
“Greece has been really understandably very vocal about this. This is a country that’s had massive financial crisis and it also got a vast number of people arriving and remaining on its territory and simply to find ways to make everyone go back to Greece is just exacerbating the problem.”
STILL – CREDIT EPA
15. Zoom out, from police to little girl
The UN Human Rights Office it is “very concerned” by the security measures set up by police in five countries in Europe, which appear to authorize profiling people and at limiting the entry of migrants travelling along the Balkan land routes.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called on the five countries, namely Austria, Croatia, the former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia to abide to undertake measures that are compatible with their human rights obligations.
UN Human Rights Spokesperson Rupert Colville said the agreement of five countries appears to allow, simply refusing entry to someone, because they don’t have a valid travel document. And of course, many refugees have to flee without documents. They are not able to go and ask the State that is persecuting them to issue them a document.”
The Office expressed alarm that the agreement enables collective expulsion of non-nationals, whilst human rights law is founded on the principle of individual treatment.
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