A report published by the independent inspectorate that monitors the treatment of detainees in England and Wales has detailed the troubling conduct of officials towards asylum seekers during a removal flight in January 2018. The report from HMIP (Her Majesty’s...
A draft amendment to the Romanian Integration Ordinance has the potential to improve the integration process for persons granted international protection. The duration of integration programmes for beneficiaries of international protection is prolonged from 6 months...
Conditions for asylum seekers are deteriorating against the backdrop of increasing numbers of arrivals in Slovenia. According to the Slovenian Police, increasing transit through Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatia and then to Slovenia is one of the factors accounting...
After being temporarily suspended in March as the result of concerns from local authorities on the pace of resettlement out of Niger, UNHCR evacuations of vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers from Libya through the Emergency Transit Mechanism has been resumed and...
Ireland has launched a new call for applications to reunite refugees with family members residing overseas. Up to 530 people will be granted the right to move to Ireland, under the Humanitarian Admission Programme II. Officially announced on Saturday by Ministers...
Asylum seekers face a deterioration of reception conditions and increasing risks of destitution in Cyprus. While recent increases in the number of arrivals have intensified situations of overcrowding and substandard conditions in Kofinou, the only reception centre in...
The Progress Report on the Implementation of the European Agenda on Migration from the European Commission, also including progress on the Commissions roadmap, reflects an EU in continued crisis mode with a strong focus on the number of arrivals and emphasis on...
On May 17 EU leaders and their Western Balkan counterparts gathered in Sofia, Bulgaria for the EU-Western Balkans Summit. The talks concluded with the Sofia Declaration, which established further cooperation in a number of areas, including migration where the emphasis...
By Moira Dustin, SOGICA Project Asylum seekers fleeing homophobia and transphobia to claim refuge in European countries have a difficult time. They experience many of the problems that all asylum seekers face – the abuses and injustices that forced them to leave their...
NGO statement ahead of the EU-Western Balkans Summit of 17 May 2018 On Thursday 17 May, EU Heads of State are meeting their counterparts from the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and...
