30 January 2015 If this is in their best interests, children without family members legally residing in the EU should have their asylum applications examined where the child is present after having lodged an asylum application, even if the child has applied earlier...
30 January 2015 ECRE is recruiting for two positions: a Senior Legal Officer and a coordinator of the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) Project. The Senior Legal Officer is part of ECRE’s Legal and Policy Team and takes the lead in strengthening ECRE’s activities...
23 January 2015 A report published by Women for Refugee Women has found that the UK government is detaining women who are survivors of rape, sexual violence and other forms of torture. Of the 34 women interviewed at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre, 19 women...
23 January 2015 On Wednesday 21 January, the newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported that the German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere, has instructed Germany’s Office for Migration and Asylum (BAMF) not to return asylum seekers to Greece for a further...
23 January 2015 Following fresh fighting among rival tribal factions in Libya since the beginning of 2015, UNHCR estimates that almost 400,000 people are now internally displaced. Benghazi, Derna, and near the Gulf of Sidra in Ben Jawad and Ras Lanuf are the areas...
