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...
15th February 2019 | News
The Australian government has suffered a historic defeat, as parliament voted on Monday to pass a bill that will make it easier for doctors to evacuate critically ill refugees from offshore processing centers on Manus and Nauru Island. However, in the same week, Prime...
15th February 2019 | News
The Global Detention Project have released their 2019 updated report on the use of immigration detention in Slovakia, titled “Punitive Conditions Paid for by the Detainees”. The report reveals that amid Slovakia’s restrictive immigration policies and...
15th February 2019 | News
The German government has responded to a parliamentary inquiry filed by MPs from Die Linke -the German left party- concerning new reports on the use of police violence in collective deportation procedures. While providing data on the means of physical restraint in...
15th February 2019 | News
This week a Freedom of Information Request (FOI) revealed that only 6% of immigration detainees in the UK who are classified as “vulnerable and at risk” after having experienced abuse including torture, sexual violence or trafficking were subsequently released from...
15th February 2019 | News
According to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), an estimate of 5,000 people have fled from South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State to the neighbouring Ituri province in the north-east Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the past weekend, with arrivals...
8th February 2019 | Uncategorized
Many of us are deeply shocked to witness a European political debate and reality dominated by a small but loud minority of far-right populists and their anti-EU, anti-democratic and anti-civil rights agendas carried forward and legitimised by racist slogans demonising...
