A group of 101 people held in a detention centre (CIE) in Madrid have submitted a letter of complaint to the local court and the Spanish Ombudsman against human rights violations being committed in the centre. Signed on the 28 April, the letter presents a long list of...
In a comment on the Green Party’s proposal for the improvement of asylum procedures in Germany ECRE member PRO ASYL made recommendations for improving the quality of decision-making in asylum procedures and adjusting asylum procedural law to ensure that individual...
On May 6, ECRE member Swedish Refugee Advice Centre and Civil Rights Defenders have brought a case on wrongful age assessment of an unaccompanied child before the Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern). The controversial medical age assessment methods used by...
German pilots prevented 506 deportations in 2018 as they refused to carry rejected asylum seekers due to health and security risks. Along with a report by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) the...
According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) fighting and targeting of civilians have forced more than 100,000 people into displacement in North Eastern DR Congo during April. Further, the violence is threatening efforts to contain the outbreak of Ebola in the region...
According to the ECRE member Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HCC) 11 Afghan nationals residing in the controversial Hungarian transit zone were faced with a choice of either returning to Kabul or cross the border to Serbia. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) calls the action...
It is a year of change in Brussels with the European Parliament elections to be followed by the appointment of a new European Commission, led by a new President. Whether there will be a shift in asylum and migration policy remains to be seen. For now, strikingly...
Footage revealed to the Guardian shows the panic of migrants and refugees trapped in the detention facility Qasr bin Ghashir close to Tripoli under indiscriminate fire from advancing militia. According to the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR more than 3,300 people trapped in...
Pending the reassessment of the security situation in Syria the Federal German Asylum Office (BAMF) put on hold the processing of asylum applications for which these changes may be relevant. NGOs raise concern about the erosion of protection and implications for...
Immigration detention remains a systematic and often arbitrary practice in Greece, according to a recent report published by the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) with observations throughout the country. The report illustrates how persisting obstacles to accessing the...
