1/ #MigrationPact and #RuleofLaw: a thread

Member states hostile to #RuleofLaw and to EU values, are also those most hostile to migrants & refugees.

This is neither a surprise nor a concidence.

theguardian.com/law/2020/apr/0… 2/ With "return sponsorship" 🇪🇺#MigrationPact envisages countries 'hostile to migrants' would be tasked with detention and deportation.

This is worrying on a number of levels.

ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/…

Delighted to welcome Polish Judges and Prosecutors to @AmnestyEU office for a briefing on ongoing attacks on judicial independence.

Here's what they said;

"Any judge making a ruling inconvenient for the govenment risks disciplinary actions, suspension, or criminal proceedings" "Prosecutors and judges are guardians of rule of law in Poland, but when they do their job, they are facing disciplinary proceedings"

Rape and abuse in Spain’s strawberry industry

“Before I left my home I was like a hero to everyone. Nobody in my village had ever had the chance to go and work in a rich country like Spain...But it has turned out to be the worst decision of my life.”
theguardian.com/global-develop… Each year, Spain provides 'circular' visas to 20,000 Moroccan women to work in agriculture.

Women with children preferred.

The logic is, that separated from their young children they are more likely to return *and* are less likely to complain about conditions.

A key player behind the #GCM, @Morocco_UN have done much to improve international migration governance.

Yet global delegates prepare for #roadtomarrakech amidst reports from Morocco of crackdowns, pushbacks, & deaths of the very people for whom the #GCM was designed to protect.

https://twitter.com/AmiraMasaiti/status/1044945210365693953

Sept 26 - Moroccan navy shot migrant boat, killing a 22 year old Moroccan woman, Hayat B. a law student
moroccoworldnews.com/2018/09/254064…