On 7 April 2017 the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) expressed alarm at the deteriorating security situation in the already famine-stricken South Sudan forcing thousands of people to flee for their lives. Ongoing fighting is reported near Pajok in Eastern Equatoria and in...
Commission must now transform words into action, say agencies 12 April 2017: The European Commission’s new policy guidelines launched today, which provide concrete actions to protect all migrant and refugee children arriving in Europe, have been broadly welcomed by...
With recent legal changes, the Hungarian government is making a mockery of EU asylum law, as ECRE has commented. But letting Hungary – again and again – get away with actions that contravene EU law and values makes a mockery of us all. The harsh measures and vile...
On the basis of the EU-Afghanistan agreement ‘Joint Way Forward’ five Member States have recently deported rejected Afghan asylum seekers to Afghanistan. Germany, Austria and Sweden have chartered flights last week, whereas Finland and the Netherlands scheduled...
On 30 March 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Chowdury and Others v. Greece, establishing Greek negligence in a case concerning severe exploitation of 42 migrant workers and the shooting of 21 of them. In the extreme case concerning 42...
