Khartoum Process: EU and African Union launch initiative against smuggling of migrants

5th December 2014 | News

5 December 2014 Ministers of the 28 EU countries as well as Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Djibouti, Kenya, Egypt and Tunisia, as well as the European and African Union Commissioners in charge of migration and development and the EU High...

International effort to resettle refugees from Syria is shameful, says Amnesty International

5th December 2014 | News

5 December 2014 In a new report, Left out in the Cold: Syrian Refugees Abandoned by the International Community, Amnesty International admonishes the abysmal international response to the Syrian refugee crisis both in terms of offering resettlement to the refugees and...

Syrian refugees in Greece request dignified living conditions and access to other EU countries

5th December 2014 | News

5 December 2014 “We escaped from death in Syria. We escaped from death in the Aegean. We want to live with dignity in Europe”, demand the more than 150 Syrian refugees who, since 19 November, have been staging a protest in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens. For...

CJEU prohibits intrusive questioning and tests to determine sexual orientation of asylum seekers

4th December 2014 | News

4 December 2014 The Court of Justice of the European Union has held that the Charter of Fundamental Rights places certain restrictions on national authorities when trying to establish the sexual orientation of asylum seekers who claim they fear persecution on account...

Norway, France, Belgium & Netherlands pledge to admit more refugees from Syria ahead of UNHCR Conference

27th November 2014 | News

27 November 2014 As the ministerial-level pledging conference on resettlement and other forms of admission for Syrian refugees, to be held in Geneva on 9 December, approaches, some European countries, Norway, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, have shown their...