4 March 2016 As a response to the European Commission’s Recommendation on urgent measures to be taken by Greece to resume transfers of asylum seekers under the Dublin Regulation there, ECRE published comments expressing concerns about ongoing shortcomings in the Greek...
4 March 2016 On Wednesday 2 March, the European Commission announced that Greece was in the process of returning 308 people who had entered Greece irregularly, back to Turkey, stepping up its efforts to ensure an effective return policy. They are mainly of Moroccan,...
4 March 2016 Amnesty International’s 2015/2016 Report was released in February, documenting the state of human rights in 160 countries across the globe. The report depicts a bleak situation for human rights around the world, including in Europe where the year was...
3 March 2016 The largest immigration detention centre in Europe, Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre in the UK, has been found to have deteriorated to an ‘unacceptable condition’. The Chief Inspector of Prisons in the UK, Peter Clarke, has published a damning...
3 March 2016 A study commissioned by the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) Committee of the European Parliament analyses the situation of women refugees and asylum seekers in the EU, underlining the importance of considering the refugee experience from a...
