A/HRC/23/46
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 April 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-third session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human
rights of migrants, François Crépeau
Regional study: management of the external borders of the
European Union and its impact on the human rights of
migrants*
Summary
The Special Rapporteur dedicated the first full year of his mandate to a study on the
management of the external border of the European Union, and its impact on the human
rights of migrants. He held consultations with the European Union in Brussels, and carried
out visits to countries on both sides of the European Union’s external border: Greece, Italy,
Tunisia and Turkey. While welcoming the inclusion of migrants’ rights in the policy
framework, the Special Rapporteur remains concerned that the p rotection of the human
rights of migrants, and in particular irregular migrants, is often not implemented on the
ground. The report further addresses challenges in relation to the securitization of migration
and border control; the use of detention as a tool in border control; the externalization of
border control; and insufficient responsibility-sharing with external border States.
* T he annex to the present report is circulated as received, in the language of submission only.
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