29th September 2020 | News
When the European Pact on Asylum and Migration was presented by the European Commission on 23 September, 2020 ECRE’s campaign under the tag-line: “Human Rights Compliance – #HardlyRocketScience” was already well underway. We were joined by...
25th September 2020 | News
One of ECRE’s predictions for the Pact was that no-one would be happy with it, and so it has come to pass. The next few weeks will witness a competition about who is most unhappy with it, but when the dust settles the detailed debates on the nearly 500 pages of...
25th September 2020 | News
Thousands of asylums seekers currently in hotel accommodation are facing eviction amid the UK’s second wave of coronavirus. A letter from the Home Office to charities stated evictions of refused asylum seekers will take place “with immediate effect.” It was also...
25th September 2020 | News
As of 21 September more than 9,000 people from the destroyed Moria camp had been transferred to the new tented camp close to Kara Tepe. Conditions in the improvised camp guarded by hundreds of police officers remain critical, movements in and out of the camp are...
25th September 2020 | News
Six lives were lost and more remain missing at sea from a boat drifting off Lebanon, 36 people were saved and returned. The number of people embarking from Lebanon to Cyprus is on the rise given the on-going crises in the country. More than 100 people were pushed back...
25th September 2020 | News
The Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) published its monthly report for August, highlighting 34 cases of illegal pushbacks. The report compiles the experience of 692 people whose rights were violated at the EU’s external border. In reality, this number might be...
25th September 2020 | News
Belgian newspapers reported on Monday that in 2020 alone, the federal agency for the reception of asylum seekers (Fedasil), has received a thousand convictions for failure to provide material reception conditions to asylum seekers. In order to access their basic...
25th September 2020 | News
Over the past months, Jordanian authorities have been deporting people with “security issues or other problems” to the informal Rukban camp in the no-man’s land in the desert at the Syrian border. According to Amnesty International, the camp offers harsh conditions...
25th September 2020 | News
In the latest incident in the ongoing crack-down on civilian search and rescue operators, Italian authorities have confined Sea-Watch 4 on flimsy grounds at a time where all capacity is needed. At least 16 lives were lost as a boat capsized off Libya. A further 115...
