19 May 2015 The Academic network for legal studies on immigration and asylum in Europe, the Odysseus Network, has announced that registration for the 15th edition of the Summer School “European Union Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum” is open. The...
19 May 2015 In a booklet titled ‘No Giving Up’, released by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Malta on 15 May, the experiences of six asylum seeking women in Malta are recounted as part of a project that saw JRS Malta hold group sessions with Somali women in detention....
15 May 2015 On 13 May, the European Commission presented the new European Migration Agenda. With a shift welcomed by several NGOs, the Commission acknowledged that the “immediate imperative is the duty to protect those in need.” Among other measures, the Commission...
15 May 2015 The annual report issued by the EU Border Agency Frontex highlights that in 2014 more than 280,000 migrants crossed the EU external borders irregularly; most of them being asylum seekers. That is twice as many as the previous peak following the Arab Spring...
15 May 2015 Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Libya are subjected to ransoms, torture, ill-treatment, sexual violence and other human rights abuses, as described, and denounced by Amnesty International, in a report issued this week. Amnesty condemns systematic...
