15th February 2019 | News
This week EASO, the European Asylum Support Office, published its overview of asylum trends in 2018. The headlines are that the number of applications for international protection in the EU+ countries was 634,700 for the year, close to the 2014 figure, with 34% of...
15th February 2019 | News
The Administrative Court of Paris issued an order on 14 February 2019, following an urgent action (référé-liberté) brought by several civil society organisations against obstacles to accessing the telephone appointment platform set up by the French Office for...
15th February 2019 | News
Making returns more effective has been on the Member States’ agenda for many years and the Danish Refugee Council has published a policy brief, Return Counselling: Supporting informed decision-making through impartial, independent and non-directive counselling, on...
15th February 2019 | News
The Australian government has suffered a historic defeat, as parliament voted on Monday to pass a bill that will make it easier for doctors to evacuate critically ill refugees from offshore processing centers on Manus and Nauru Island. However, in the same week, Prime...
15th February 2019 | News
The Global Detention Project have released their 2019 updated report on the use of immigration detention in Slovakia, titled “Punitive Conditions Paid for by the Detainees”. The report reveals that amid Slovakia’s restrictive immigration policies and...
