21st February 2020 | News
In a letter, the International Criminal Court (ICC) communicated that Australia’s offshore detention regime amounts to “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” and is thus unlawful under international law, but will not prosecute the Australian government. The...
14th February 2020 | News
Along with other NGOs, ECRE has today published a statement on the proposed Asylum and Migration Pact, under development at EU level. As civil society is often accused of being too critical and only seeing the negative side of policies on asylum and migration, ECRE...
14th February 2020 | News
Interview with representatives from the activist network Alarm Phone: Dr Maurice Stierl is a political scientist at the University of Warwick in the UK; Dr Deanna Dadusc is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton in the UK; Dr Britta Rabe is an...
14th February 2020 | News
On Thursday, the rescue vessel Aita Mari, run by the Basque NGO Salvamento Maritimo Humanitario, disembarked 158 people in the port of Messina, Italy. The former fishing boat rescued the group including 51 minors in two operations at the Central Mediterranean on...
14th February 2020 | News
A report by the Global Detention Centre reveals that immigration detention in Austria has tripled since 2015 while the numbers of asylum seekers have plummeted after 2016. The report provides an overview of the legal framework that governs immigration detention in...
14th February 2020 | News
A case compilation from ECRE member Hungarian Helsinki Committee reveals that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has for the 18th time granted interim measures in cases of food depravation involving 28 individuals in the Hungarian transit zone. The starvation...
14th February 2020 | News
On 10 February 2020, the British Court of Appeal reprieved at last minute the deportation to Jamaica of twenty-five people on the grounds that an outage inside the Heathrow detention centres had prevented the group from making external calls and require legal...
14th February 2020 | News
On 13 February 2020, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (GC) published its judgment in the case of N.D and N.T v Spain (Application Nos. 8675/15 and 8697/15) concerning the immediate return of two men to Morocco after attempting to cross the...
14th February 2020 | News
On Tuesday morning, a boat carrying around 130 Rohingya refugees capsized off southern Bangladesh, killing at least 14 people. The coast guard was able to rescue 70 persons, leaving dozens more unaccounted for. A fishing trawler, carrying mainly refugees from the...
14th February 2020 | News
After years of treating asylum and migration in crisis mode, we believe the proposed Pact on Asylum and Migration is an opportunity for the EU and its Member States to change direction. It is an opportunity to develop a rational and rights-based asylum and migration...
