agency operated alongside a Greek sovereign authority that purportedly had sole
responsibility for protection but that was not fulfilling its obligations to provide protection.
Therefore, migrants and refugees confronted enforcement barriers (enhanced by Frontex’s
engagement) without the requisite human rights and refugee rights protections that
provide remedies against unbridled enforcement.
As Frontex continues to operate in Greece, and other places, Human Rights Watch believes
such an unbalanced and unaccountable situation is unsustainable and dangerous for
migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees.154
154 On the importance of accountability mechanisms in international executive agencies taking administrative decisions, see
Benedict Kingsbury, Nico Krisch and Richard B. Stewart, “The Emergence of Global Administrative Law,” Institute of
International Law and Justice (2005), http://www.iilj.org/GAL/documents/TheEmergenceofGlobalAdministrativeLaw.pdf
(accessed April 14, 2011).
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