In the report “Pushing Back Responsibility. Rights Violations as a “Welcome Treatment” at Europe’s borders”, Protecting Rights at Borders (PRAB) has collected testimonies of 2,162 cases of pushbacks, including chain pushbacks over multiple countries. The report covers...
Yet another asylum seeker had to stand trial over charges of being a human smuggler and of being responsible for a lethal shipwreck he survived. He was sentenced to 146 years imprisonment. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights urged the Greek authorities...
The European Commission urges relocation to other member states from Italy where the number of arrivals has surpassed 11,000 in 2021. According to Missing Migrants project more than 600 people have lost their lives on the Mediterranean since January attempting to...
The main outcome of UK Home Secretary Priti Patel’s £33.6m investment in border control measures is to fill the pockets of human smugglers operating in northern France. Meanwhile, the situation in France continues to deteriorate, with withdrawal of protection...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Malta provides a comprehensive overview of developments in the area of asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2020. While the number of arrivals decreased from...
