While Somalia is spiralling into to a vicious self-feeding circle of violence, poverty, drought and displacement, European protection rates differs with almost 40 per cent for the first three quarters of 2017. On October 14 a truck bombing in Somalia killed more than...
by Efi Latsoudi (Lesvos) Natassa Strachini (Chios), staff members of Refugee Support Aegean (RSA). RSA is the implementing partner of the Foundation PRO ASYL in Greece. Despite repeated warnings from numerous organisations thousands of refugees are going to suffer in...
On 25 October 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the expiry of the six-month period to carry out transfers under the Dublin III Regulation automatically leaves the responsibility for the asylum application with the requesting Member State....
One year after the dismantlement of the Calais camp the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) noted that nearly 15,000 persons transferred out of the Calais camp over the past two years have had their asylum applications examined,...
During last week’s European Council meeting Member States expressed strong support for Italian cooperation with Libyan authorities. The Council’s conclusion revealed little of the concerns that caused EU Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks to request...
