Peter Sutherland delivered the 2016 Trócaire Lecture titled ‘Migration – the moral challenge of our time’ in Maynooth on 19th May 2016.
Peter Sutherland is the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN for Migration and Development and President of the International Catholic Migration Commission.
Read Trócaire policy paper
Refugees, Migrants and Asylum Seekers: Where to from here?
is paper outlines the implications of the recent EU Deal with Turkey on refugees and asylum seekers.
Our key concerns include:
– The EU-Turkey plan is not designed in the best interests of refugees and asylum seekers, including Syrian civilians, but is instead focuses on containing the flow of displaced people trying to reach European countries.
– The plan has the potential to seriously erode the crucial protection for refugees afforded them under international law by designating Turkey a safe third country.
– The EU-Turkey plan damages the credibility of the EU, undermines the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid and sets a dangerous precedent of principled humanitarian donors motivated by political agendas.