The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović published a letter addressed to Vice-President Schinas and Commissioner Johansson in which she lists what she considers the most pressing human rights issues that the Pact on Asylum and Migration...
A young child died in a fire in the overcrowded Moria camp on Lesbos. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that living conditions in the island hotspots “provide the perfect storm for a COVID-19 outbreak”. 450 people who have been detained for weeks in the habour of...
The Governments of Belgium and the Netherlands have introduced measures effectively suspending the right to asylum for newly arriving asylum seekers due to the corona virus. While no alternative arrangements for the reception of asylum seekers have been made in...
The updated country report on the United Kingdom documents developments in the area of asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2019. As the United Kingdom (UK) left the European Union (EU) on 31...
This Monday, the European External Action Service and the European Commission (EC) published a Joint Communication: Towards a comprehensive strategy with Africa which sets out the vision of the two institutions regarding the future EU-Africa partnership. It suggests...
