22 January 2016 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released a report this week denouncing the catastrophic failure of the European Union’s response to the humanitarian crisis which has been unfolding in 2015. The report – entitled Obstacle Course to Europe – strongly...
22 January 2016 Syrian refugees are often trafficked or exploited as they are no longer able to meet their basic needs. Investment in infrastructure and humanitarian aid in the main hosting countries is essential, reveals a new study by the International Centre for...
22 January 2016 In 2013, in response to the Syrian war, Brazil was the first country in the Americas to announce the start of a humanitarian visa programme: under the regulation, Brazilian embassies in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey issued visas for Syrians and people of...
22 January 2016 If a refugee’s journey is hard, a woman refugee’s journey is even harder: recent research published by Amnesty International shows how women and girls are facing violence, assaults and sexual harassment at every stage of their journey, including on...
22 January 2016 ECRE member, the British Red Cross, has found that more than 9,000 asylum seekers in the UK are destitute, without adequate access to food, accommodation and healthcare. Based on the experiences of asylum seekers in South Yorkshire, the report finds...
