UK: Vulnerable Adults still being Detained Despite Legislation
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...
Thousands Displaced by Newly Erupted Violence in South Sudan
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...
Editorial: EP Election 2019: Voter Turnout is the Key to an Open Europe
With the European Parliament elections fast approaching, this week ECRE launched the latest phase of our EP 2019 Campaign. This is communications work focused on mobilising our supporters to vote, through explaining the important role played by the European Parliament...
EP ELECTION 2019 #YourVoteOurFuture
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...
Stakeholders Encouraged to “Live Up to Commitments” of Break-Through CAR Peace Agreement
A peace agreement between the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and 14 non- state armed groups that has been in conflict since 2012 was signed on February 6. By the end of 2018 almost 585,000 refugees had left CAR, while close to 650,000 were internally...
Dutch to Re-examine 700 Children’s Pardon Cases, but Scheme will be Scrapped for Future Applicants
On January 29 the Dutch government announced that they will examine the cases of 700 children and their families who are under the threat of deportation, by making use of the ‘children’s pardon’ policy scheme. However, the scheme will be scrapped after the current...
Crossing a Red Line: How EU Countries Undermine the Right to Liberty by Expanding the Use of Detention of Asylum Seekers upon Entry
This week the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, in conjunction with ECRE and a number of European project partners, launched their report “Crossing a Red Line: How EU Countries Undermine the Right to Liberty by Expanding the Use of Detention of Asylum Seekers upon...