Rights Groups Warn Against Designating Egypt as a Safe Country of Origin - Egyptian Front for Human Rights

Rights Groups Warn Against Designating Egypt as a Safe Country of Origin - Egyptian Front for Human Rights

The undersigned organizations find the European Commission’s April 16, 2025 proposal to establish a Union-wide list of “safe countries of origin” and to include Egypt among them incompatible with the EU’s human rights obligations. This measure risks severely undermining the rights of asylum seekers and weakening the EU’s commitments to international protection standards. The designation of Egypt as a “safe country of origin” would trigger accele…

The undersigned organizations consider the European Commission's proposal of 16 April 2025 to establish a common EU-wide list of "safe countries of origin" and to include Egypt in it to be inconsistent with the EU's commitments... The post Human rights organizations warn against classifying Egypt as a safe country of origin appeared first on Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies.