As of 10 October 2014 the French Council of State has withdrawn Kosovo from the national list of safe countries of origin. Asylum seekers from ‘safe countries’ have their applications examined in an accelerated procedure on the assumption that persecution is unlikely...
Unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Malta are deprived of their liberty until their age is determined, the age assessment procedure lacks transparency and it is not formalised or regulated by law. In addition, during the age assessment, children often have no...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has unanimously found Italy to be in violation of the prohibition of collective expulsions of aliens (Article 4 of Protocol 4 European Convention of Human Rights) as well as the prohibition of inhumane and degrading treatment...
In a report on his visit to the Netherlands in May 2014, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muižnieks, has expressed concern regarding the extensive use of detention of asylum seekers and migrants at the border. Current practice shows that in...
In a jointly published policy paper, ECRE, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) call on the European Union (EU) to use the momentum in development discourse at the European level to integrate and mainstream protracted...
