Three nationals of Syria, Germany and Greece, have been arrested in Lesvos, after an investigation by the Greek authorities implicating 30 people in all in a criminal case of facilitating entry of third-country nationals. The three are associated with the organisation...
A vessel containing rescued migrants has been stuck at the port of Catania, without authorisation to disembark, since Tuesday. After 48 hours of docking, prosecutors opened an investigation into the illegal detention of those on board and the European Commission has...
A recently published Policy Paper provides ECRE’s analysis of the proposals launched at the June 2018 European Council and its updated assessment of the CEAS legislative reform, with recommendations on the compromise texts. After two years of discussing the asylum...
The Policy Note offers ECRE’s analysis of European Practices in the area of return including “voluntary departures” and assisted return, with its recommendations to the EU. Despite a dramatic fall in the number of people arriving in Europe to seek protection since its...
Findings obtained by the Thomson Reuters Foundation have proved that the UK Home Office is increasingly denying protection to victims of child slavery. Between 2015 and 2017, the government rejected asylum claims made by 183 people- almost double the figure for the...
The situation is tightening for Venezuelans crossing borders to escape the crisis in their country. Ecuador and Peru are introducing passport control and Brazil has deployed troops to stop attacks on Venezuelans from local border town residents. Many Venezuelan...
Last month, Cyprus adopted Law No 73(I)/2018 establishing an International Protection Administrative Court (IPAC), which will examine appeals relating to provisions of the Refugee Law. This includes appeals against negative decisions on asylum applications, Dublin...
Between 1200 and 2500 people gathered at the feet of the Manneken Pis last week to protest the holding of four children in a detention centre in Belgium. The crowd, led by the initiative #NotInMyName, decried the ‘inhumane’ policies of the Belgian authorities and...
Labour and Coalition MP’s have passed a new Migration Bill which will retrospectively make lawful the 2002 excision of Ashmore Reef from Australia’s migration zone, in contradiction of a Federal Court ruling from July. The Ashmore reef was declared an ‘offshore...
An 18-year-old homosexual asylum seeker from Afghanistan was denied asylum in a decision based on physical traits and general social behaviour in clear conflict with UNHCR Guidelines and the line taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The young...
