By Anikó Bakonyi, Advocacy and Project Officer, Hungarian Helsinki Committee Azim had been waiting in Serbia for nine months to enter Hungary and submit his asylum application. By the time he reached the metal revolving door at the Serbian-Hungarian border he had left...
The Maltese government is no longer allowing rescuing NGO vessels to enter, leave and use its port services, based on the allegation that new information received by the authorities brought the need to ascertain if the operations conducted by rescuing ships are in...
By Claudia Bonamini, Policy & Advocacy Officer, Jesuit Refugee Service Europe “Nothing new under the sun” we were thinking, slightly concerned, at JRS Europe, when we started analysing the more than 100 interviews our partners conducted with forced migrants in six...
The European Commission released €45.6 million in emergency assistance to improve reception conditions in Spain and Greece and amp up returns in Spain. Both countries have been struggling with overcrowding and lack of capacity in their frontline reception facilities...
On June 29 the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations, who have lost three staff members during the escalating violence in Syria, warned of the “fastest displacement in Syrian history,” as the number of displaced caused by a government offensive in the Deraa...
