Refugees freeze to death on their way to safety

12th February 2016 | News

12 February 2016 Refugees are dying everyday while trying to reach Europe by boat. According to UNHCR, over 400 people lost their lives while undertaking these dangerous journeys since the beginning of the year. However, refugees also loose their lives fleeing by land...

Red Cross: Offshore processing inadequate to solve ‘access crisis’

12th February 2016 | News

12 February 2016 The Red Cross EU office has recently published a study, Europe in Crisis: facilitating access to protection, (discarding) offshore processing and mapping alternatives to the way forward. The author of the report, Dr Moreno-Lax finds that there is an...

Massive public outcry after Australia rules on the legality of offshore detention centres

12th February 2016 | News

12 February 2016 Earlier this month, Australia’s High Court ruled that the offshore detention of asylum seekers is not in violation of the Australian constitution. The case was filed by a Bangladeshi woman, detained on Nauru and later brought to Australia because of...

Syrian donor conference raises over $10bn – still $3bn short of urgent needs

5th February 2016 | News

5 February 2016 On 4 February, a donor conference in London raised more than 10 billion US $ in international aid to support people caught up in the Syrian conflict. Co-hosted by the UK, Germany, Kuwait, Norway, and the United Nations, the ‘Supporting Syria and the...

EU Commission adopts: Greece ‘seriously neglected’ Schengen border controls

5th February 2016 | News

5 February 2016 On 2 February, the EU’s College of Commissioners adopted the Schengen Evaluation Report on Greece and a proposal for a Council Recommendation on ‘addressing the serious deficiencies identified in the evaluation report on the application of Schengen...