ECRE has initiated an awareness-raising web campaign to show support for the Russian NGOs whose work may be jeopardized by the “Foreign Agent” designation. This new law seriously compromises the ability of Russian human rights activists to carry out their essential...
The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) gave the green light this week to an agreement to recast the Dublin Regulation and the Reception Conditions Directive. In ECRE’s view, the agreement reached on the recast of the Reception Conditions...
The Greek Minister for civil protection, Michalis Chrysohoidis, announced on Monday, 26 March 2012, the planned construction of 30 “closed hospitality centres” to house 30,000 undocumented migrants. The centres are going to be built using unoccupied military sites...
Last Friday 23 of March the Belgian government adopted a list of seven safe countries of origin, which included Albania and Kosovo. Asylum seekers from those countries will now have their applications examined in an accelerated procedure in a bid to counter “abuse of...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found in the case of Mo.M. v France that the deportation of the applicant to Chad, where he had previously been a victim of torture, would be a violation of the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment...
