27th November 2014 | News
27 November 2014 On 19 November, activists from Amnesty International in Russia handed over an open letter to Vladimir Putin at the building of the Presidential Administration. It was signed by 148 national and international NGOs from Russia, Germany, the UK, Poland,...
27th November 2014 | News
27 November 2014 The Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam is introducing a master in International Migration and Refugee Law as of September 2015. The master’s track will address international migration from the perspective of international, and European and domestic...
27th November 2014 | News
27 November 2014 In a new report ‘Struggling to Survive: Refugees from Syria in Turkey’, Amnesty International (AI) severely criticises the international community’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis which has left “the hopes of safety and security for most...
26th November 2014 | News
27 November 2014 ECRE and the Red Cross EU Office, along with several national organisations, have released a report, Disrupted Flight – The Realities of Separated Refugee Families in the EU, on practices in 12 EU Member States in relation to family...
26th November 2014 | News
26 November 2014 The first AIDA Report on Croatia, compiled by ECRE member organisation Croatian Law Centre (HPC), shows that vulnerable asylum seekers are not properly identified and assisted throughout the procedure and that access to medical assistance is generally...
26th November 2014 | News
26 November 2014 Within the framework of the Project CONTENTION (CONTrol of immigration detention), the Migration Policy Centre and the Odysseus Academic Network examined the lawfulness of different detention practices of irregular migrants in 11 EU Member States:...
24th November 2014 | News
System needed to allow positive decisions on asylum to be recognised across EU – see ECRE’s new discussion paper here http://t.co/BKsNjseKJF — ECRE (@ecre) November 24, 2014 24 November 2014 A major challenge facing beneficiaries of international...
21st November 2014 | News
21/11/2014 The Odysseus Network has published a training module on the legal obligations and the practical implementation of alternatives to detention in the EU. The training module, conceived as an interactive tool, provides trainers with background material, a...
21st November 2014 | News
21/11/2014 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that expelling an Iranian national from Switzerland to Iran would give rise to inhumane and degrading treatment prohibited by Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) due to a...
21st November 2014 | News
21/11/2014 In a new report, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) found that refugees are facing increasing obstacles in fleeing Syria. More than 3 million Syrian refugees are hosted in neighbouring countries, whose social...
