NGOs raise alarms over new plans against migrants and refugees in Hungary

6th March 2015 | News

6 March 2015 Hungary’s government is planning to introduce measures to reduce the number of asylum seekers in the country, which experts fear, will go against EU law. According to the ECRE member organisation the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC), the plans publicly...

NOAS: Detention of family with children violates Norwegian and international law

6th March 2015 | News

6 March 2015 Norway’s current legislation and practice of detaining families with children violates the Norwegian Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights, the UN Convention on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. That...

UK MPs: migrants & asylum seekers should be detained as a last resort and for a maximum of 28 days

6th March 2015 | News

6 March 2015 An inquiry by an all-party parliamentary group into the use of immigration detention in the UK has found that the detention system is “expensive, ineffective and unjust”. The inquiry highlights that too many people are detained and for disproportionate...

Asylum can be granted to military deserters who provide logistical support in conflicts says CJEU

27th February 2015 | News

27 February 2015 The Court of Justice of the European (CJEU) has held that members of the military participating indirectly in a conflict can be granted asylum for desertion. Whilst, past commission of war crimes does not have to occur for protection to be applicable,...

AIDA Report: children & other asylum seekers in Austria left without adequate accommodation

27th February 2015 | News

27 February 2015 A new AIDA report shows that shortcomings in the asylum system in Austria, and the lack of reception places, lead to serious overcrowding in the initial reception centre, resulting in some asylum seekers having to sleep in sport halls and, at the end...