Many thanks to the Academy of European Law for inviting Human Rights Watch to be part of
this very timely discussion regarding the state of play of post-Tampere immigration and asylum
policy in the European Union. For those of you new to Human Rights Watch’s work, it is an
international non-governmental organization that monitors human rights violations in over
seventy countries worldwide. The flagship office is in New York, with regional offices in other
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