Algeria Deports 25000 Migrants to Niger
Over 25,000 migrants were expelled by Algeria to Niger in the course of 2018. This includes 14,000 Nigerien nationals returned to Niger, up from 6,800 in 2017, and another 11,000 nationals of other Sub-Saharan countries who have been left on the Nigerien border in the...Save the Date: Follow the Money II
UNHCR and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) are pleased to invite you to the launch of Follow the Money II report, on the use of AMIF funding at national level. Whilst the first Follow the Money report was looking at the programming of AMIF funds at...
Legal Assistant internship
ECRE is offering a 6-month legal internship: April – September 2019. The purpose of this position is to assist ECRE’s Legal Support and Litigation Team with legal training, legal research on specific topics relating to international protection, managing the...Seminar: Legal Rights for Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum
29 January, 14h30 – 17h00, Press Club, 95 Rue Froissart, Brussels The objective of the seminar is to share information on different methods for supporting professionals who assist children seeking asylum to access their legal rights. Different tools and methods of...
A Contingency Plan for Disembarkation and Relocation
Following the latest incident of rescue ships stranded in the Mediterranean, this week’s Editorial takes the form of a presentation of ECRE’s Contingency Plan for Disembarkation and Relocation. A Contingency Plan for Disembarkation and Relocation ECRE relaunches its...
Op-ed: Channel Crossings: If Anything has Come to Crisis Point it’s the Language Used by our Home Secretary
The previous two weeks have been extremely busy for UK refugee charities like ours. With a handful of people crossing the Channel by boat making headline news almost daily, we saw several interesting but worrying things follow. The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, cutting...
DR Congo: Electoral Tensions High Amid Inter-communal Violence and Ebola Outbreak
On Thursday January 10 the electoral commission declared Felix Tshiisekedi the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Tension has been mounting while the results of the election which took place on December 30 were delayed for more than a week. Amnesty...
France: Lottery-Based Access to Migrants’ Day Centre a Reminder of Reception Shortages
Accommodation places in a migrants’ day centre run by the organisation France Horizon in Paris are given by lottery. Every morning, groups ranging from 150 to 400 people appear before the centre, which has a capacity of no more than 50 places, to test their chances of...