Manavella Alejandra

This author's articles

• A right-based approach to migration policies in a context of emergencies: ’Expelling States’ and semi-persons in the European Union

  28 April 2009
  The European socio-political climate and its repercussions on person’s rights and liberties trigger multiple challenges. The widening process of the European Union (EU), the hardening of legislation on immigration and terrorism, and the new practices of police and security services make the basic principles and values on which consolidated European democracies lay tilt.

• Report on the situation on the Euro-Mediterranean borders

  27 April 2009
  Euro-Mediterranean borders are internationally known, especially in Europe, for the causalities and the violation of Human Rights of migrant people trying to reach the European shores of Andalusia, Sicilia, Lampedusa, the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla and later the shores of the Canary Islands. The management of migrations is a key topic of the contemporary national and European polices, mainly for the Euro-Mediterranean countries.

• The effects of exceptional legislation on criminalization of immigrants and people suspected of terrorism

  27 April 2009
  On the current global context of war against terrorism, the traditional liberties and guarantees of the Rule of Law, are not been respected for all people. This is the case of immigrants for example, as they are considered potential dangerous people. The measures to regulate immigration and the measures to fight against terrorism are dangerously being confused, causing terrible consequences for some people.

• Deprivation of Liberty and Human Rights in Spain

  27 April 2009
  The Spanish State figures at international reports as one of the countries where torture persist, resulting in recommendations to eradicate or, at least, to minimize this practice. As such, the international organizations responsible for the protection of human rights denounce the lack of political will on the part of the Spanish Authorities (statutory, regional and local) to eradicate torture.