22nd November 2013 | News
Melissa Phillips at a detention centre for migrants, Libya ©Danish Refugee Council “There needs to be some resettlement opportunities for refugees in Libya, because until such time they will continue to get on boats, as their only chance of finding permanent...
22nd November 2013 | News
Spanish newspaper El País has shown this week that the Spanish Guardia Civil (Spanish policing authorities) continues to push back migrants to Morocco from Melilla, the Spanish city on the northern coast of Morocco. These renewed revelations were made through the...
22nd November 2013 | News
On 13 November, the Bulgarian government adopted a draft bill, amending Bulgaria’s Asylum Law to introduce systematic detention of asylum seekers arriving irregularly on Bulgarian territory. The draft bill, that will become law if approved by the Parliament, renders...
15th November 2013 | News
When a Member State is prohibited from returning an asylum seeker under the Dublin II Regulation to a country where the applicant would be at risk of being ill-treated, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) held yesterday that the Member State is not obliged to assume...
15th November 2013 | News
A new report released this week by the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) revealed that many developed countries still do not have the proper policies in place to ensure that victims of torture are not re-traumatised by the asylum process...
