In a joint policy paper published on Thursday 26 February by the European Disability Forum (EDF) and the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), the organisations analyse the ‘EU Asylum and Migration Pact’ through the lens of disability issues, denouncing statistical invisibility, inaccessible reception and screening procedures, exclusion from social protection, discrimination in family reunification and risks in detention and during returns.
EDF and IRAP also report that the current framework ignores the obligations arising from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
In particular, they criticise the lack of data collection broken down by type of disability, and the lack of adapted facilities in accelerated border procedures.
The organisations are calling on the European institutions and the Member States to integrate the inclusion of disability into national implementation plans for the ‘Pact’, ensure accessible asylum procedures and end the detention of people with disabilities in a migratory context.
See policy paper: https://aeur.eu/f/kxk (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)