22nd February 2019 | News
The German interior minister has submitted a ministerial draft bill that proposes measures for more effective implementation of deportations. Refugee right organisations are concerned the law could expand the use of detention and restrict the rights of people seeking...
22nd February 2019 | News
The latest report of the European Committee on the Prevention of Torture (CPT), following a visit to Greece in April 2018, reiterates criticism of inhuman detention conditions, while expressing concern at the increasing use of immigration detention. The CPT delegation...
22nd February 2019 | News
On 17 January 2019, Ethiopia’s parliament adopted important amendments to its existing refugee legislation securing the right to free movement and work for refugees in the country. The new law, which will replace its 2004 Refugee Proclamation, marks an important step...
22nd February 2019 | News
The civilian search and rescue vessel Sea Watch 3 remains in Catania port in Sicily after Dutch authorities decided last week that it needed maintenance. The boat has remained in the port since 30 January. The Dutch authorities have asked Italian authorities to keep...
22nd February 2019 | News
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has for the first time condemned a long-standing systematic practice at the Spanish-Moroccan border of push backs or ‘expulsiones en caliente’ to unaccompanied migrant minors (UASCs) in a decision that upholds the...
22nd February 2019 | News
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has released data showing that only 4.7 percent of people in need of resettlement were actually resettled in 2018. Most resettlement needs arose from Lebanon and Turkey, to where people fled conflict in the Middle East. A...
22nd February 2019 | News
Six months after their creation in August 2018, the so-called German “AnKER centres” are drawing criticism from refugee associations, NGO’s and other local actors. The Bavarian Refugee Council recently described the AnKER centres as “camps with undignified and...
15th February 2019 | News
This week EASO, the European Asylum Support Office, published its overview of asylum trends in 2018. The headlines are that the number of applications for international protection in the EU+ countries was 634,700 for the year, close to the 2014 figure, with 34% of...
15th February 2019 | News
The Administrative Court of Paris issued an order on 14 February 2019, following an urgent action (référé-liberté) brought by several civil society organisations against obstacles to accessing the telephone appointment platform set up by the French Office for...
15th February 2019 | News
Making returns more effective has been on the Member States’ agenda for many years and the Danish Refugee Council has published a policy brief, Return Counselling: Supporting informed decision-making through impartial, independent and non-directive counselling, on...
