ECRE, 6 September 2024
This op-ed at the website of ECRE – the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, an alliance of 127 NGOs based in 40 European countries – looks at the European Union’s and its member states’ (MS) fulfilment of pledges to continue the evacuation of former Afghan local staff and others at risk, saying that “most of these operations had either been severely limited or completely halted” after 31 August 2021. A “few EU MS” only “continued to evacuate small numbers of Afghans at risk beyond this date, while “others, such as Austria, refused to participate in any evacuation efforts.” “Despite these efforts, many former local staff who worked with the EU and its MS, as well as other at-risk Afghans, remain in hiding within Afghanistan or in neighbouring countries, and living in constant fear and uncertainty.”
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This article was last updated on 11 Nov 2024
