The Council of Europe and the European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published on Friday 9 July a joint note on “European standards on legal remedies, complaints mechanisms, and effective investigations at borders”.
Based on the European Convention on Human Rights–which binds the 47 member States of the Council of Europe–and on European Union law, these standards recall that under these bodies of law, asylum seekers and refugees can access effective remedies at...