20th November 2020 | News
According to recently published IOM data, 16,760 individuals have reached the Canary Islands between January and November, after crossing by boat from the coasts of West Africa. Local authorities urge transfers to the Spanish mainland and 2600 people remain at...
20th November 2020 | News
EU has signed a financing agreement for the construction of new structures to replace overcrowded camps on Lesvos, Samos, Chios, Leros and Kos. Council of Europe’s anti-torture Committee (CPT) calls for reform of Greek immigration detention system and ending...
20th November 2020 | News
On 17 November French police dismantled a makeshift camp home to 2,400 people in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. Most residents where moved to emergency accommodation, but several hundred remained on the street with nowhere to go and exposed to police aggression. Aid...
20th November 2020 | News
Amid mounting evidence of widespread and severe violations along the Balkan route, Austrian police have reportedly been involved in several cases of pushbacks to Slovenia followed by chain pushbacks to Bosnia. A complaint has been filed against Austrian police but...
20th November 2020 | News
The Home Office is prosecuting asylum seekers for steering dinghies despite ‘not being part of criminal gangs.’ This comes as a judge rules that the Home Office is failing to follow its own policy on procedure to identify victims of trafficking in asylum interviews....
20th November 2020 | News
On 17 November 2020, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland had violated Article 3 ECHR in the case of a Gambian homosexual person who faced deportation back to the Gambia. In its assessment, the ECtHR referred, inter alia, to previous case law of...
20th November 2020 | News
Last week, ECRE’s contribution to the implementation of asylum procedures at the border, has been published by the European Parliament Research Service (EPRS) which commissioned it. The entire European Implementation Assessment paper on border procedures contains...
20th November 2020 | News
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR warns of a “full-scale humanitarian crisis” as thousands of people are fleeing Ethiopia’s Tigray region to neighbouring Sudan every day. Most stay without access to shelter or sanitation at the border. Meanwhile, support provision in Tigray...
13th November 2020 | News
Six people are missing and one child drowned after a shipwreck off Samos, the father of the child has been arrested on suspicion of endangering a life. Mare Liberum has collected information on hundreds of pushback operations in the Aegean Sea involving more than...
13th November 2020 | News
A constitutional case has been filed by 50 people over breach of rights by Maltese authorities in pushback operation to Libya in April. After a series of shipwrecks the death-toll rapidly climbs on the Med and returns to Libya continue. On 11 April the NGO hotline...
