9 May 2014 The Foreign Policy Centre has launched in the UK’s Houses of Parliament an online publication entitled “Shelter from the Storm”, which examines the asylum, refuge and extradition situation facing activists from the former Soviet Union in the Commonwealth of...
9 May 2014 The German Parliament called this week for an EU conference on resettlement of refugees from Syria. This conference would enable EU Member States to make concrete resettlement commitments to offer refugees fleeing Syria a safe haven in Europe. ECRE has...
09 May 2014 Lebanese authorities deported 41 Palestinians to Syria on 4 May 2014 following their arrest at Beirut airport for allegedly attempting to leave the country using fraudulent visas, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). On the same day, HRW reports that...
9 May 2014 The closing conference of the ECRE-led project Right to Justice: Quality Legal Assistance for Unaccompanied Children will take place in Brussels on 7 July. The project’s findings will be presented as well as the comparative report on access to and...
09 May 2014 The detention pending removal of foreign nationals in ordinary prisons may only be justified either by an unforeseen and exceptionally large number of foreign nationals to be returned, or by exceptional circumstances of urgency and seriousness in an...
