medico international 282d ago

On June 6, Border Violence Monitoring Network, Brot für die Welt, medico international, and Sea-Watch organized an online workshop on the EU Facilitation Directive. Part of the workshop was a panel discussion where we looked at how criminalization of people on the move and of humanitarian actors is linked to current EU law – and how the next facilitation directive must look like so that this criminalization will no longer take place. The panelists were: 1. Prof. Violeta Moreno-Lax – Author of the Substitute Impact Assessment on the Facilitation Directive of the EP 2. Mary Lawlor – UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, author of a position paper on the Facilitation Directive 3. Julia Winkler – de:criminalize, campaigning the case of 40 Sudanese teenagers facing life sentences for boat driving #FreeTheBoys