14 March 2014 UNICEF, Save the Children and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) have raised concerns about the future of children affected by Syria’s three-year-long conflict. According to UNICEF’s new report, since March 2013, the number of children...
14 March 2014 On Thursday 20 March, while EU government leaders meet in Brussels, Amnesty International will create a beach outside the Council, with four tonnes of sand and a backdrop of a sea (a construction of two metres by seven). As summer approaches and people...
14 March 2014 In ‘Age assessment practice in Europe’, published last week, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) recommends to Member States the necessary safeguards to ensure that the use of age assessments in asylum procedures is respectful of the rights of...
14 March 2014 In the lead up to the French Council of Ministers considering reform of the asylum system in April 2014, French NGO Forum réfugiés-Cosi has published 13 recommendations designed to make the asylum system fairer and more protection-oriented for applicants...
14 March 2014 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe last week issued a decision which reiterated the Committee’s ‘serious concern’ over the continued failure of Russia to implement a ‘protective and preventive mechanism’ to bring an end to abductions and...
