Migrants, UN: “Do not leave countries like Italy with disproportionate responsibility”

On migrant flows, “I urge EU member states to show solidarity to ensure that frontline countries, such as Malta and Italy, are not left to assume disproportionate responsibility”. This is how the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, expressed herself in the statements released with a note on the occasion of the dissemination of a report with the request to the Libyan national unity government, the European Union and its member states to an urgent change from current search and rescue policies and practices in the central Mediterranean, which “too often deprive migrants of their lives, dignity and basic human rights”. “As long as there are not enough safe, accessible and regular migration channels, people – said Bachelet – will continue to try to cross the central Mediterranean, regardless of the risks or consequences”.