The growing incidence of u
naccompanied minors seeking asylum, for example,
raises additional difficult legal issues. And now, against a background of widespread electoral campaigning, we cannot ignore the fact that some States, b
y no means the less democratic among them, and including those with a long tradition of welcoming refugees, have announced that they intend to implement reforms limiting the right to asylum, and even to introduce criminal penal
...[+++]ties for any immigrant in an irregular situation.