While Spain emptied its Immigration Detention Centres (centros de internamiento de extranjeros, CIEs) in response to Covid-19, the situation in Spanish enclaves continue to raise concern. The Ombudsman denounced a “hand-over“ by Spanish authorities from January as a...
The updated Country Report on Serbia documents the main developments in the area of asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2019. Asylum procedure: Access to the territory remains a serious...
By Daria Dudley. Consultant on asylum issues and Lawyer specialised in Migration Law, as well as Economic and Administrative Law of Germany. Completing her doctoral degree at the department of law at Free University of Berlin. Aleeke, a refugee from Cameroon, was in...
78 people rescued by a German cargo ship disembark in Italy and go into quarantine while 163 people remain stranded off Malta. The depletion of rescue capacities at the central Mediterranean following the blockage of civilian rescue vessels risks continued loss of...
Portugal is set to receive 500 unaccompanied children from the Greek island camps, 18 are set for relocation to Belgium, and 52 vulnerable people stranded in Greece have been reunited with their families in the UK. MEPs call for the investigation into a fatal shooting...
The updated AIDA Country Report on Portugal details legislative and practice-related developments in asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection. Asylum procedure: The pressure on the Portuguese asylum...
The updated Country Report on Sweden provides a detailed overview of the main developments in the area of asylum procedures, reception conditions, detention of asylum seekers and content of international protection in 2019. Asylum procedure: 2019 was marked by a...
On 14 May 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union published its judgment in the joined cases C-924/19 and 925/19 concerning, inter alia, the accommodation of asylum seekers in the Röszke transit zone at the Hungarian-Serbian border and the grounds of...
The Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) published a special report on human rights abuses against people in transit along the Balkan Route during the current Coronavirus outbreak. The report shows how health restrictions and border management combine to...
On 11 May 2020, the Fundamental Rights Agency published a report entitled “Relocation of unaccompanied children: applying good practices to future schemes”. The report analyses examples of good practice implemented in the relocation schemes both by European Union and...
