22nd February 2019 | News
On 17 January 2019, Ethiopia’s parliament adopted important amendments to its existing refugee legislation securing the right to free movement and work for refugees in the country. The new law, which will replace its 2004 Refugee Proclamation, marks an important step...
22nd February 2019 | News
The civilian search and rescue vessel Sea Watch 3 remains in Catania port in Sicily after Dutch authorities decided last week that it needed maintenance. The boat has remained in the port since 30 January. The Dutch authorities have asked Italian authorities to keep...
22nd February 2019 | News
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has for the first time condemned a long-standing systematic practice at the Spanish-Moroccan border of push backs or ‘expulsiones en caliente’ to unaccompanied migrant minors (UASCs) in a decision that upholds the...
22nd February 2019 | News
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has released data showing that only 4.7 percent of people in need of resettlement were actually resettled in 2018. Most resettlement needs arose from Lebanon and Turkey, to where people fled conflict in the Middle East. A...
22nd February 2019 | News
Six months after their creation in August 2018, the so-called German “AnKER centres” are drawing criticism from refugee associations, NGO’s and other local actors. The Bavarian Refugee Council recently described the AnKER centres as “camps with undignified and...
