Border Management and Human Rights. A study of EU Law and the Law of the Sea


December 2007; 95 pp.

Currently at EU level, draft guidelines are being developed that are supposed to clarify the obligations regarding persons encountered in interception, control and rescue measures at and beyond the EU’s southern maritime border. In the background to this are pre-border migration controls, which are already being conducted on the basis of the EU border management strategy developed in the Council. Such pre-border migration controls beyond state borders also take place in the framework of joint EU operations that are coordinated by the EU border protection agency, FRONTEX. Additionally, differences of opinion between Member States exist over human rights obligations with regard to persons picked up through interception, control and rescue measures beyond the EU’s external border. This study should contribute to clarifying the obligations for border management arising from human rights and maritime law. Autor: Ruth Weinzierl/Urszula Lisson

Herausgeber: German Institute for Human Rights
ISBN: 978-3-937714-59-2