Having almost completed her term as the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, which ends on 31 March, Dunja Mijatović published a Recommendation on Thursday 22 February in which she warns that the “damaging” and “worrying trend” is the “increasing harassment, intimidation and criminalisation” by some governments towards people and groups who help refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.
She said that she “felt compelled to intervene” on a number of occasions in...