Amendment No. 18 | Doc. 14341 | 27 June 2017
Human rights implications of the European response to transit migration across the Mediterranean
Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In the draft resolution, after paragraph 4, insert the following paragraph:
"Serious concerns remain in many important areas, including delays in the registration and processing of asylum claims, despite the significant efforts made by the Greek Asylum Service; ‘protective detention’ of unaccompanied children in police stations, even for short periods; inappropriate age assessment procedures; the absence of an effective guardianship system for unaccompanied minors; sexual and gender-based violence in reception facilities; insufficient access to education and healthcare; and inadequate integration measures, despite the Greek authorities’ implementation of an integration action plan. The Assembly also notes the continuing deficiencies in the Greek legislative and administrative framework and lack of coordination for responding to the basic needs of refugees and migrants, including an inability to absorb and make effective use of the available international funding."