Senior Legal Officer – EU Asylum Law
The position holder will play a central role in developing and managing ECRE’s legal and political advocacy work on the right to asylum in Europe. The work aims to influence the EU’s legal framework on asylum and its implementation in the EU Member States, associated...
Op-ed: Refugees Shouldn’t Be Used as Props to Alert to the Dangers of Climate Change
By François Gemenne & Caroline Zickgraf François Gemenne is Director of the Hugo Observatory at the University of Liège and Lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Caroline Zickgraf is Deputy Director at the Hugo Observatory. Her research...
#VoicesOfECRE: Herbert Langthaler
Interview with Dr. Herbert Langthaler, public relations, presentations, education outreach: Asylkoordination Oesterreich (Austria) ECRE is an alliance of 104 NGOs across 41 European countries the diverse membership ranges from large INGOs with global presence to small...
Med: Armed Intervention against Rescue Ship and Pull-Back to Libya
Last week has seen a series of alarming developments on the Mediterranean including well-documented armed intimidation by a Libyan force toward an NGO ship carrying out a rescue operation, and a pull-back to Libya facilitated by Maltese authorities. Video footage...
Series of Incidents of People Risking Their Life on Refrigerated Trucks to Reach UK
A few days after 39 people were found dead in the back of a truck close to London, 20 people were discovered in the back of refrigerated trucks in France and Belgium. Fleeing war-torn countries, they hoped to reach the UK via this life-endangering pathway. On...
Greece: New Restrictions on Rights and Procedural Guarantees in International Protection Bill*
The International Protection Bill presented by the Greek Ministry of Citizen Protection brings about several restrictions on individual rights and procedural guarantees in the Greek asylum system. The bill tabled to Parliament on 21 October 2019 following a five-day...
Malta in the ‘Imperfect Storm’: Illegal Detention, Crack Down on Protests, Abuse and Overcrowding in Centres
A Maltese Court recently ruled the detention of six people in the Safi detention camp beyond the formal limit of ten weeks on health grounds, illegal. On October 29 Maltese riot police rounded up detainees of the same facility for questioning following protests....
Amnesty Report Documents Forced Returns from Turkey to Syria
A report by Amnesty International documents the return of Syrian nationals back to Syria by Turkish authorities, exposing them to risks of serious human rights abuses in clear violation of international human rights and refugee law. The report is based on desk and...