This week, Refugee Rights Data Project in partnership with Refugee Youth Service France released the report “In Dangerous Transit – Filling information gaps relating to refugees and displaced people in Ventimiglia, Italy” based on research conducted in the end of...
On 22 September 2017, the Greek Council of State, the highest administrative court of the country, delivered two long-awaited judgments (2347/2017 and 2348/2017) regarding two Syrian nationals whose claims were rejected as inadmissible. The rulings will have important...
On 3 October 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that Spain violated the prohibition of collective expulsion (Article 4 Protocol 4) and the right to an effective remedy (Article 13 ECHR) on a case related to the return to Morocco of migrants who had...
This week marks the anniversary of the Joint Way Forward between Afghanistan and the European Union. What impact did the agreement have and what is your opinion of its effectiveness and sustainability? The impact of the Joint Way Forward deal, as I would call it was,...
The hotspots on the Eastern Aegean islands continue to be marred by overcrowding and deteriorating living conditions. At the beginning of October, a total 13,538 people remained on the islands of Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Leros and Kos. With the exception of Leros, all...