Human rights in combating organised crime and the problem of «illegal» migration in Europe

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Keywords:

transnational organised crime, human trafficking, migrant, smuggling of migrants, illegal migration

Abstract

The article analyses a number of legal problems related to the observance of human rights in the fight against transnational organised crime and illegal migration in Europe. The author highlights the features that distinguish human trafficking from illegal migration and raises a number of controversial issues related to the need to criminalise people smuggling, protect and promote the rights of migrants, establish responsibility for illegal entry and illegal residence, as well as the permissibility of criminalising by the assistance to migration by non-governmental organisations that conduct humanitarian search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.

Author Biography

  • Thomas Kruessmann, University of Graz, 15/C3 Universitätsstraße, Graz 8010, Austria

    doctor of science (law), full professor; senior researcher, coordinator of the project «Modernization of master programmes for future judges, prosecutors, investigators with respect to European standard of human rights» (CRIMHUM), Institute of Criminal Law, Criminal Process and Criminology

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Published

2020-10-27

Issue

No. 3 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law

Section

Constitutional Law and Administrative Law

How to Cite

[1]
Kruessmann, T. 2020. Human rights in combating organised crime and the problem of «illegal» migration in Europe. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law. 3 (Oct. 2020), 24–29.