The Execution Department issued today a new thematic factsheet focusing on the execution of ECHR judgments concerning migration and asylum.
Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees enjoy the human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court has stressed that the problems which States may encounter in managing migratory flows or in the reception of asylum-seekers cannot justify recourse to practices which are not compatible with the Convention or the Protocols thereto. Over the years, the European Court has developed a very rich body of case-law concerning migration and asylum and the execution of the relevant judgments by respondent States has advanced the human rights protection of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees at national level.
The present factsheet sets out examples of general and, where possible, individual measures adopted and reported by States, in the context of the execution of the European Court’s judgments, concerning notably: access to territory and forced returns; reception and protection of migrants and asylum seekers; protection from discrimination and hate crimes; family life and family reunification; detention of migrants and asylum seekers; victims of trafficking in human beings.
