Between 1200 and 2500 people gathered at the feet of the Manneken Pis last week to protest the holding of four children in a detention centre in Belgium. The crowd, led by the initiative #NotInMyName, decried the ‘inhumane’ policies of the Belgian authorities and...
Labour and Coalition MP’s have passed a new Migration Bill which will retrospectively make lawful the 2002 excision of Ashmore Reef from Australia’s migration zone, in contradiction of a Federal Court ruling from July. The Ashmore reef was declared an ‘offshore...
An 18-year-old homosexual asylum seeker from Afghanistan was denied asylum in a decision based on physical traits and general social behaviour in clear conflict with UNHCR Guidelines and the line taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The young...
Interview with Jordanna Bailkin, Jere L. Bacharach Endowed Professor in International Studies in the Department of History at the University of Washington. She is the author of three books: most recently, Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural...
The Hungarian authorities have given up the practice of denying food to asylum seekers whose claims are considered inadmissible. A statement from the ECRE member the Hungarian Helsinki Committee is welcoming the change of practice but underlines that without...
