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Albanian
Helsinki Committee encourages respect for
emigrants’ rights in accordance with European
standards
The Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC)
is an organization with a long experience in
monitoring respect for human rights, noting
violations and referring them to responsible
state institutions, offering relevant
recommendations for better respect of human
rights and standards for a state governed by the
rule of law. AHC’s mission includes respect for
the rights of Albanian emigrants wherever they
are.
In this context, AHC began the
implementation of the one-year project “European
standards and respect for emigrants’ rights.”
Our two main objectives through
this project are:
- Protection of the rights of
Albanian emigrants, persons returned from third
countries, and persons without a citizenship in
the context of the Readmittance Agreement;
- Monitoring steps and progress
made toward fulfilling objectives for Albania’s
European integration in the areas of emigration
policies and border management.
The report on monitoring progress
of measures undertaken by responsible state
institutions will ensure an open and transparent
process to the general public, while identifying
shortcomings, problems, challenges, and
recommendations to resolve them. Furthermore,
the monitoring report will increase the
awareness of different interest groups with
regard to issues of legal migration and border
crossing.
The project will include
monitoring of respect for Albanian emigrants’
rights, citizens returned from third countries
and persons without citizenship from actions by
Albanian state institutions or relevant
institutions of the relevant country bordering
with Albania; we will contribute to increasing
access by human rights violations’ victims to
defense mechanisms of human rights; we will also
monitor the Stabilization-Association Agreement
in the area of border management and migration
policies, and will also offer concrete
recommendations to improve drafted laws to
encourage legal migration in accordance with
international human rights standards.
Another objective of the project
is to enhance cooperation with other human
rights organizations in the country and in the
neighboring countries through the establishment
and strengthening of cooperation networks. An
important part of this initiative will be the
continuation of AHC’s cooperation with the Greek
Helsinki Monitor to monitor respect for Albanian
emigrants’ human rights and their violations,
particularly on the Albania – Greece border, and
to follow cases in the Strasbourg Court.
This initiative is made possible
through the financial support of the Norwegian
Helsinki Committee and will be implemented in
close cooperation with the main actors active in
this area and other sister organizations in
other countries. |
