Safe for whom? Dialogue with activists from Egypt, Tunisia, Bangladesh and Bosnia

The concepts of safe country of origin and safe third country are increasingly used by EU states, supported by the EU itself, to limit the right to seek asylum and to outsource protection obligations to third countries. Citizens3 of non-EU states who try to migrate and seek asylum – often the only way to stay in Europe regularly – run the serious risk of being deported to contexts where fundamental rights are not protected, where the democratic space is shrinking and the repression of dissent is increasingly violent. 

Moderator: Marina de Stradis (A Buon Diritto)

Speakers:

• Ala Talbi, Executive Director Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) 
• Moataz El Fegiery, Egyptian human rights defender, member of EgyptWide and EuroMed Rights
• Nidz̆ara Ahmetas̆ević, journalist and researcher 
• Papia Aktar, ARCI Roma 
• Wadih Al Asmar, President of Euromed Rights and President of the Lebanese Centre for Human Rights