9th September 2016 | News
Last week marked the first anniversary of the tragic drowning of Alan Kurdi, whose lifeless body at a Turkish beach captured by a photo,caused an international outcry.One year after,many more continue to die at the external borders of the EU in their search for...
9th September 2016 | News
Asylum seeking children are facing harrowing conditions in Greek detention centres, a new report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) documents. Children are enduring inadequate sanitation and hygiene conditions, ill-treatment by police offices, and little or no...
9th September 2016 | News
The number of children affected by violent conflict and other crisis is at a record high,says a recently published UNICEF report entitled Uprooted.Of the nearly 50 million “uprooted” children in the world, 28 million are forcibly displaced. These 28 million children...
2nd September 2016 | News
Switzerland is facing wide criticism for turning back thousands of people at the Swiss-Italian border. Between July and August, the Swiss authorities have pushed back 7,000 at the Como(Italy)-Chiasso(Switzerland) border. The Swiss Refugee Council (OSAR), the Italian...
2nd September 2016 | News
A protest by approximately 150 asylum seekers, mainly of Chechen origin, who are denied entry into Poland, was recently held near the Brest crossing point of the Polish-Belarussian border. Ongoing barriers to accessing the asylum procedure in Poland have been reported...
