Submitted on Monday 2nd November 2015
Rejected on Monday 9th November 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Allow asylum applications to be processed at any EU embassy in the world
Refugees have no way of applying for asylum or temporary protection other than undertaking an illegal and hazardous journey to Europe and applying on arrival. This is fuelling an illegal trafficking racket and resulting in mass deaths by drowning, cold and starvation in our seas and at our borders.
Over 3,000 people have drowned in the Mediterranean this year.
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/global-refugee-crisis-catastrophic-moral-failure-rich-countries-leave-refugees-cruel
https://theconversation.com/fortress-europe-continues-to-treat-migrants-as-criminals-49026
Allowing refugees to claim asylum at EU embassies in Africa or the Middle East would give them a safe, legal way to come and would undercut the smugglers. It would avoid creating a generation of angry anti-Europeans.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This is not something that the UK Government or Parliament could achieve on their own.
You could start a petition calling on the UK Government to work with other EU member states to achieve this.
Alternatively, the European Parliament has its own petitions process. You can find out more here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/atyourservice/en/20150201PVL00037/Petitions
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